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ichael Boudreault specializes in creating life-like and life-size scenes and designs on the walls, ceilings and surfaces of people’s homes. Some have dubbed him a modern-day Michelangelo. Boudreault, who is based in Columbus, has appeared on HGTV’s Deserving Design with Vern Yip. The two hit it off at a 2008 Central Ohio Home & Garden BEST of Fall Show. Since appearing on TV, Boudreault’s clientele base has grown. He has painted the foyer of a NASCAR team owner as well as done projects for numerous other local and national celebrities. Public examples of this gifted man’s work can be seen in schools and hospitals. In no way, however, does Boudreault consider himself above doing smaller jobs. Nor does he seem fazed by his recent rise in popularity. Boudreault was raised in southern Florida and has a degree in art education. He made a life- and career-changing decision — he stopped teaching and decided to pursue painting full time — after a trip with his junior high school students to Italy, where he visited the Sistine Chapel. Boudreault is married to Danielle, who teaches first grade. The couple has two children — Kayla, 14, and Christo, 12. The family moved here from North Carolina in 2006.
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What do you think about being dubbed as the modern-day Michelangelo? It’s an honor because he is my favorite artist. It’s probably because I relate to his trajectory of work – he didn’t just sit there and paint and suffer on canvas. He painted buildings
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and he painted the people and it was a job, and he didn’t always love it. The Sistine Chapel just about killed him. I think that — and it’s almost sacrilegious to say — but he was the ultimate decorative artist, really. He adorned buildings with ornament and
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decorative beauty and he made them look even better — to enhance the architecture. I’ve always admired the fact that (painting) was a job, and artisans were well respected back then — as artists and as laborers — that were of a higher value.
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