In music a composer will sometimes start with a "Prelude" to explore new ideas, before expanding it in to something bigger. Artists will often do the same thing. Last week, when Dix Baines was heading out one early morning for a painting trip in New Mexico, he captured an incredible image of the moon setting over the mountains in the pink tinged sky of a sunrise just down the street from our house. He couldn't wait to get back from the week long trip to explore the image. Yesterday he started that exploration by painting a 5x7 painting on panel and determined that this image will definitely be going big. Dix has been painting preludes or small images throughout the course of his career. Painting small is a way for him to visit an image and see if it is one that needs to go large. For the collector, both new and seasoned, it is a way for them to add to an art collection for a relatively small amount of money. For the last several years Dix Baines Studio holds two 5x7 auctions, the Summer Garden Party and Auction in August and Notes and Brushstrokes in November, where these small original paintings are auctioned with a starting bid of $150. The gem he painted yesterday is the first of this year's Notes and Brushstrokes Studio Auction and can be bid on by following the link below the painting. There have been a number of exceptional 5x7 paintings sold through the auction and these are just a few. Check the Studio Auctions page often over the course of the next two weeks, as new images will be posted and open for bidding as they are completed
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