Paul Zapatka Artist
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Utah
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For this page of my art website i chose to show a group of paintings based on photographs I took of Utah when I visited there back in 2001 with a friend of mine from my hometown.
Utah Highway 1 2015 oil 18 x 24 inches $400
Utah Highway 2 2005 oil 18 x 24 inches $350
Utah Highway 3 2005 oil on canvasboard 16 x 20 inches $300
After having photographed this sunny scene, an ultimate Utah highway from my friend's car there on the way to CanyonLands, Utah, several years later I started to paint it before finishing it in my home studio in 2015. The light salmon-like side cliffs, hills could be in sunny, southern California or fabulous Florida. What this landscape boldly shows the viewer: this is one victorious vacationland to visit during the summer and that I did with my friend in 2001!
For this winding, whirling, happening highway in unforgetable Utah, the viewer experiences two tremendous things. You're loving life because your rocking and rolling through a wonderful western American landscape. By doing this through real, rocky terrain, your acknowledging it's way out there feeling: "It's like going to Mars" as a former fellow Utrecht art supplies employee described it in downtown, Washington, DC.
For this third Utah highway painting( also after my photograph), I let the viewer know for sure what this thrilling, zooming one-point pespectively painting is doing through wide open western landscape like none on the East Coast; "you're taking them for the ride," as an artist I did an apprenticeship with when studying graduate studio art in New Rochelle, NY. once told me.
Highway Through Utah Landscape during 1st decade of 21st Century oil approx. 18 x 34 inches $400
Utah Mesa off Highway's "Mile 237" 2007 oil 16 x 20 inches $300
Utah Desert 2007 oil 16 x 20 inches $300
Only on an endless Utah highway do you capture such a spectacular sight from the side of the road: a marvelous mesa of magnificant proportions under fully-floating clouds, a golden-colored glory,a special sight to visually view for the viewer and you know you've traveled a long way to get there at "Mile 237" but it's worth the well-spent trip!
Utah Desert 2 2005 oil 16 x 20 inches $325
Utah Canyons 2012 color pencil 22 x 28 inches $300
Utah Canyons 2(close-up) 2012
color pencil 22 x 28 inches $300
Utah Canyons and Landscape 2012 color pencil 22 x 28 inches $300
Utah Mesa 3 2001 acrylic on canvasboard 18 x 24 inches $325
This third Mesa painting that I've included for this page of my art website is the only Utah painting that I painted on-sight/plein-air in CanyonLands, Utah. It also is the only life-painted-landscape I ever paint in and on the West Coast. It's a serene, calm painting reflective of sunny summertime sightseeing of an earthy, terracotta-like colored mesa in the superb state of Utah.