Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Freedom Tower, work in progress 2

    I’ve gotten the foreground of “Freedom Tower” pretty much done.  I may go back and look at it with a fresh, but I think that’s it. While I was doing this, it occurred to me that visual arts are a lot like music.  You’ve got compositions, rhythms, and harmonies.  I tried, here, to get a…

  • Freedom Tower, 1st work in progress

    Here’s the stage where I am in doing the large version of “Freedom Tower”.  As I usually find, when you translate something small into something much larger, you run into difficulties in detail and composition.  Here I’m finding I need more trees to fill up the foreground. In reality, the foreground is actually a cemetery.…

  • No Place Like Home…..

    I’ve started work on the large “Freedom Tower”, but so far, don’t really have enough to show a work in progress. So here’s something I did a little earlier.  It’s one of the Paradise series.  It’s an interior, for I know some for some people, paradise is their own home.  That is, especially if it…

  • That was fast….

    As usual, I did a 5×7 sketch before working on the full size version of “Freedom Tower”, the working title. Once I’ve gotten finished using this to work from, I may put it up on Ebay, someone might want it. Anyway, I still have to work on getting the verticals and horizontals right. But I…

  • Freedom Tower

    My next piece won’t be part of the paradise series.  It’s going to be a full-size drawing of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, as seen from my window.  Here’s a quick sketch….of course I have to work on those verticals. The bombings in Boston reminded me so much of the atmosphere around NYC…

  • An Urban Paradise

    I have concentrated on natural beauty as paradise. The truth is, though, some of us have found our paradise in a big city. What can be paradise among t he noise, bad smells, crowds and dirt? It’s a matter of being part of a community. For some of us, that’s paradise.. Here I am featuring…

  • Pathetic Cake

    In an attempt to find something creative to do at my job, while I’m doing what I want with my artwork, I took cake decorating class. Thought I’d post my latest effort….and this is the GOOD side.

  • Boston

    For all of you who have family and friends in Boston, I am sending my most positive thoughts to you and them. May you find your loved ones quickly, and may they be well. For those of you who have bad news, my support goes out to you. May the world change and tragedies like…

  • No Artwork Today…..just a great video

    I am working on another piece, will take a while. In the meantime, I thought I’d share this video. It’s by a man who used to be a big radio star in Los Angeles. His career got derailed, so now he’s in New York City starting over. He’s shooting great slice of life videos of…