I paint nine colors a day (three colors at a sitting) for about thirty days. The idea is to use as many colors as possible to get the color blend I want, but they are not blended on a pallet or on the canvas like an oil painter would do. They are blended by the viewer just as they are in a post-impressionist painting.
- Andy Baird
A professor of art once compared Andy Baird’s paintings to the facade of a Gothic Cathedral, “ made up of thousands of small fragments that visually dissolve the solidity of the stone into a ‘sensation’ of immateriality.