![]() This winter, he began to paint cityscapes depicting well-known landmarks, making them smaller than his usual paintings, and they all sold. With advice from his fellow artists, Dominic has charged slightly more for his work lately, particularly when a subject is selling well, but psychologically it’s still hard for him to increase his prices. “I originally struggled with how to price my paintings,” Dominic says, echoing every other artist. They’re gorgeous and impressive and expensive. Martin uses cake frosting tubes to pipe paint onto magnificent landscapes on huge canvases, layering and layering the lines of paint to create 3-D art. His brother, Martin Bourbeau, is also an artist at the Expo. “That was unbelievable,” Dominic says to me the day it happened, and he’s shaking his head, like it shouldn’t have happened.īut it’s totally believable that someone saw his artwork and instantly wanted it. Dominic told the guy he painted it and the man instantly pulled out his check book and commissioned the painting for his home. One day at Kinko’s in Scottsdale, Dominic was scanning his painting of Frank Sinatra’s Living Room when an architect from Palm Springs saw the painting and asked about it. Luckily, not every client wanted to take possession of their painting before the Expo closed on March 25, allowing Dominic to return to Minneapolis and complete all his unfinished commissions. ![]() “This was the year of commissions,” Dominic says, laughing. ![]() Or, he was asked to paint one of his classics, like Frank Sinatra’s Living Room, five times. Hopefully, after hearing so many folks see his art for the first time and say “Wow!,” Dominic will realize how special his painting is.ĭominic’s Aubrey Hepburn-esque painting ran on the December 2017 cover of Modern Luxury Scottsdale magazine, and his sassy mid-century portrait of a well-dressed woman in red was used on all the Expo passes.ĭuring the Expo, Dominic had to paint all day, every day, seven days a week, because everything he hung on his booth wall sold. Again this winter, Dominic kept his head down and painted constantly, but was as approachable and responsive to visitors as ever. How do you approach a genius? Especially one who is always painting, canvas lying flat on the table, head down? But it turned out that Dominic is highly approachable and generous with his time in explaining his supplies and techniques.Īt this year’s Expo (January to March 2018), Dominic’s booth was in a high-traffic area near the cafe so his wall of art could be seen from the main hallway. In fact, his mid-century modern-style paintings intimidated me. His unassuming nature shows up in his humble view of his work, which is colorfully geometric and stunning.ĭuring last year’s Arizona Fine Art Expo in Scottsdale, Dominic’s artwork was tucked into a corner with little traffic flow, but I saw his work and was stopped cold by it. Soft-spoken, Dominic is Minnesota nicer-than-nice. Dominic Bourbeau doesn’t realize what a great painter he is.
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