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THE NEVER ENDING MAGIC-DIX BAINES COLORADO LANDSCAPE ARTIST

9/26/2016

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The magic never ceases to amaze me. I have watched DIX BAINES paint for over twenty years and it truly is magic to see him take an empty board and bring it to the point of a framed painting. People often ask him how long it takes him to paint an image, and before watching the process, I would have asked the same thing. I always thought that a painting starts by the artist taking paint to canvas, but now I understand that long before the actual paint on canvas, there is a great deal of research and thought in planning the image. Sometime researching means painting and photographing on location and then bringing the images back to the Studio and working through the composition of a larger piece. Other times, researching means going through a collection of photos that have been acquired just from living; driving down a  road, seeing a sunset over the mountains, or a flower bursting open. Once the artist has an image in mind, there is a lot of composition work. Will all the elements be included in the painting as they are in the photo? The electrical wires or poles? A road? A tree? A car? Will the season and time of day be as the artist saw when the photo was taken? Or will artistic license be taken to create the best composition. - Kathlyn Gogarty-Baines
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    ​“I am drawn to the things which speak to the senses; the light and atmosphere of landscapes, the impressions of a moment or place, and the spirit of nature and of people. It is important to me to strive as an artist to paint a variety of subjects and to paint each equally well. I  paint often on location, or from life.  Whether researching sporting life images, landscapes, or places from abroad, painting directly from the subject is essential to capturing the impression of what I see.” -DIX BAINES

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