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Show The Park Record Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, March 6-8, 2005 C-5 Jakubowski finds jobs as jack-of-all arts art is a little trickier." Jakubowski's murals are certainly his most visible projects. In addition to those he does for businesses and communities, he also does many as teaching projects in schools. There, he utilizes a master's degree in experiential By MATT JAMES education (which complements his Of the Record staff BFA in painting) to teach kids about "My father was an arlist," said ftiul creating art, and as he docs this - of Jakulxtwski, "So I'm a second genera- course - he guides them through the tion artist... 1 grew up with an art stu- creation of a mural. His pictures from his most recent dio." project, a teaching mural in the library Despite his lack of a presence in Main Street art galleries (which, he of a Brigham City elementary school. said, was not for lack of trying) show the painting and several of the 75 .kikuhowski is probably one of the more students whom he said helped him prominent artists in the Park City area. with it. The mural's scene includes We has gained that stature with a little everything from kids reading, tofishin bit of flash, and by making his art of the a sea, to dinosaurs, and space; all of it wrapping the whole way around the people, by the people, for the people. If one spends much time in Park large room. The kids, said Jakubowski, City, she or he is likely to see painted virtually all of iL "I've always been teaching," he .lakubowski's vehicle, an old Chevy mini-van entirely covered by one of his said, noting 10 years as an Outward signature murals. Additionally, he has Bound instructor and seven more in painted the mining mural inside the similar organizations. With his backtunnel near the . Summit Watch ground in art, and his forma! training in education, teaching projects make Marriott, and a lot of the inside of N'acho Mama's Restaurant. So, sense. "Painting and drawing is a wonJakuhouski's murals are certainly in derful subject," he said. "I replace instithe public eye, but he also said that he tutional whiles and grays with beautican do more than paint big walls or ful colors." small vans. Despite the amount of large-scale work he docs, Jakubowski said his best "I do it all," he said, "anything in works were probably his walercolors painting or drawing." It all depends on what's available and drawings. In those works he displays both his precision - with detailed and what's interesting - Jakubowski subjects, shadings and colorings in his likes to stay flexible with his work. "My first priority is to make a living pencil, colored pencil and marker drawings - and his impressionism at it," he said. "With murals, that's a good way to with loo.su, almost wispy plcin aire make a living," said Jakubowski. "Fine paintings only sketching out subjects. NOT Local artist focuses on versatility and variety in art career PAUL JAKUBOWSKI One of Jakubowski's water-colors is shown here. He said he aims to be like Picasso, changing styles like one changes clothes. NO ENOUGH ART , * OUH 8 0 * 0 0 ^ . WONDER PEOPLE SAY "GESUNDHEIT" WHEN YOU SAY TCHAIKOVSKY. fii nf iirL; i-iliir.Ui'-Ti. pli ING PAUL JAKUBOWSKI Paul Jakubowski's acrylic painting of Vincent Van Gogh is shown here. Jakubowski says he enjoys painting artists. His works also include drawings of Picasso and others. letting while paper show through and focusing, above all on a sense of movement. Still some of his other paintings - his watereolors ol~ fruit in particular combine that sense of movement with the precision and detail to form a wellrounded work. Jakubowski's house is dotted with dozens upon dozens of paintings and drawings, his kitchen cabinets covered in an undersea mural, his garage d<xir featuring a moose in the mountains and his walls loaded with walcrcolor, oil and acrylic works of all sizes and colors. lie said the sources of his income vary as much as his types of art. "Every year is different," he said. "One year I might make more money doing public art, another I might do more educational projects and another it might be more fine art." In the past, Jakubowski said he's sold paintings on the beach in .Australia and traveled the Outback doing commercial artwork for businesses. He noted that he'll paint everything from portraits to landscapes, seascapes, animals and jusl about anything else that's lit for public consumption. "'I live the real life o\' the artist," he said. "It's been my only income now for 10 years." And his style of work depends as much on what the client wimls as anything else. He works from there to give that person a good value and a great work of art. "I can paint almost any way I want," said Jakubowski. All of this makes Jakubowski the exception, rather than Lhc rule, as an artist in Park City, where many artists sold in the Main Street galleries each seem to lit into their own little slot, and where few artists actually hail from I'ark City. And that attitude about art extends beyond Old Town and into the community. Many would agree that Park City is a place where tastefulncss rules - to a fault, some might say. "I think people in Park City should not be afraid of decorating their homes with a mural," said Jakubowski, noting that there's nothing wrong with that course of action. "It's an untrue fear," he said. Such a sentiment sounds like selfpromotion, but when one talks to Jakubowski, there is a definite sense that he is promoting art, in the community, to students and in businesses. "People always say, "1 can't paint, and I can't draw,'" he said, noting that many of those people can indeed paint and draw. "I don't know why painting and ait has such a mystique," he said. It's simply a matter of going out and trying, practicing and (hopefully) succeeding. "I tell my students,' If you want to do a good painting, do 50 bad ones first,'" Jakubowski joked, but he also noted the truth in the statement, lie certainly gets his practice with all of his work. And that reflects itself in the quality of his paintings and his philosophies about them. ' T h e painting is the easy part," he said. 'The hard part is finding funding." An overview of Paul Jakubowski's anwark is available on his website, 1111 •w.miiral-arl. com. Those interested in his work should call 940-9536. 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