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SIGNS OF THE TIMES JOHN BREAULT CLIMBS A set of creaky stairs early one morning and enters a studio that overlooks the Charles River, Boston Harbor, the financial district, and a web of freeways.
This atelier, however, has no windows, no walls, no ceiling. It's the rooftop of a decrepit warehouse near the old Charlestown Navy Yard, where Breault paints on a 20-foot-by-60-foot canvas.
For Breault, 33, it's not unusual to be working on oil paintings as big as a community swimming pool. He's a billboard artist. For the past 12 years, he's been painting boards at Ackerley Communications of Massachusetts in Stoneham, a subsidiary of Seattle-based Ackerley ...