Review from New York of Manscapes

Gallery&Studio acknowledged as “a leading New York art magazine” by the London Times

BELOW: What Gallery&Studio said about Mairi Budreau’s Manscapes, please click on image

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Opening Reception for Walks of Life Exhibition

The reception drew about 90 people and it looked like they had a good time!

The Walks of life webpage is updated and now includes

The installation of the exhibiton, reception photos, PDF of the show catalogue, the portrait paintings

View paintings, catalogue and reception

Manscapes in New York opens today!

The Beyond Borders Exhibition of Canadian Art at the Agora Gallery in New York opened this morning!
The gallery sent pictures of the installation of my Manscapes. There are ten artists in this show and two are from Vancouver.
The Opening Reception is on Oct 10th. There will be a video posted from the event.

To see more visit the gallery click on Exhibitions/current

CFJC TV Midday today

Will be talking today on Midday about the Walks of Life Exhibition on Kamloops CFJCTV with Tanya Cronin!

GLOBAL NEWS AM on Oct 1

I’ll be sitting down with Mark Madryga and his portrait painting, and chatting with Steve Darling and Sophie Louie about the Walks of Life Exhibition at 8:25 AM next Tuesday morning on the Morning NEWS on Global TV.
I’m a little nervous, but it should be fun!

 

New York Selections

Last week was a bit of a nail biter.
Agora Gallery reviewed the eleven paintings I’ve prepared for selection into their show called, Beyond Borders – An Exhibition of Fine Art from Canada and they chose all of them.  Clang!  that’s my jaw hitting the floor.

The paintings will be shipped to New York in a few days and if you would like to see them in person you are most welcome to attend Sneak Peek – Art for New York at
Portfolio Interiors 1216 Battle Street in Kamloops 7-9 pm Thursday, August 8, 2013
There will be a draw for a canvas reproduction of a painting of your choice of the NY work or from my website http://www.budreau.ca (portraits excluded)
Refreshments will be served and there is lots of free parking.

Because there is male nudity, may not suitable for children.

To know more visit: http://www.budreau.ca/new-york-gallery

I’ll be at Portfolio Interiors with Dan and Kathy and their team and look forward to seeing you!

Below is a detail of SMOLDER

Below is a detail of DEEP

CFJC today!

Susan Edgell, first class host today on CFJC Midday, as we talked about the New York Exhibition and Sneak Peek .

Sneak Peek is a preview of the 10 or more paintings for NY gallery exhibition which will be on public display for one night only at Portfolio Interiors
1216 Battle Street in Kamloops
Aug 8, 2013
7-9pm – lots of free parking!

admission is free, please RSVP kathy@portfoliointeriors.ca

hope to see you there!!

 

Deep – new for NY

I’m doing something different in terms of technique on this one. Usually when I block in I use 2-3 different umbers to define the darkest, middle and light value but this time because the variations in some of the larger shapes is so subtle, I instead used the same colour only thinner and therefore a lighter value. This is making it easier for me to see the values that are closer to what is really there. I’m hoping that when I paint it it will take less messing around to blend it where it needs to be.

Below is the sketch

 

Below is the sketch after being transferred onto the canvas

 

Below is the result of blocking in with the new method

Man Ray – almost there

So this is pretty intense. The colours I mean. I like warm colours and I still like that the viewer can conjure up what he is doing and where he may be. There are touches left to do but for all intense purposes – ha ha – it is done. I debated about putting the warm environment on him – orange highlights, that sort of thing – but I think the separation of him from the background makes it a stronger painting.

 

Man Ray – establishing

This painting is shooting out of the blocks rather quickly. Having zero experience painting a black man, I kept working the arm to a near finished state so that I could understand where I was going in terms of colours and values. With the arm firmly established, I then moved onto the back, up to his head and started into the left arm and shoulder. Haven’t decided about the background yet….