Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Less than sparkling and FREE GIFTS!

    Putting together an art show can really sap your energy and creativity. I’m still enthusiastic about “Construction”, but I’m too tired and distracted to work on it right now. I went to Birch Coffee (5 East 27th Street) to check the space out again. I was worried before whether I’d have enough art to fill…

  • I Wanted to Sell Out!

    But no one was buying. (Warning: Bad art displayed, here) I always wanted to make a living with my art.  At first, I wanted to design posters.  I assumed that if a subject appealed to me, then it would appeal to other people.  However, I think most artists create with that in mind. I’ve been…

  • Help Wanted: An Inventor

    For sometime, I’ve been looking for the perfect art supply.  It can take images in my mind, project them directly from my eyes, and develop the picture on the paper, with absolutely no handiwork from me.  If you can come up with it, I guarantee you’ll make a fortune. But since that doesn’t exist at…

  • Breaking the Rules

    Sometimes, in both life and in art, you have to say “screw it” to all the rules you know. Actually, I can’t think of a good example of life, at the moment, but I’m sure others have. I have always relied on a limited palette to hold together a composition.  Then I was faced with…

  • Don’t forget!

    Reception for my show at Birch Coffee, 7pm to 9 pm, Thursday, September 6. The show will hang all the month of September. As the old DJs used to say, “Be there, or be square! ” Oh, yes, and the address is: 5 East 27th Street, New York, NY

  • Art Career and the Day Job

    Sometimes, at work, I feel like shouting “Quick!  Go back to school and become an accountant before it’s too late!”   No, I lie.  I spent many years trying to come to terms with working a menial job, when I wanted to be an artist.  Spent many years in frustration, thinking, “I’m better than this”.…

  • Stick a fork in it

    Sometimes, the hardest thing in art is calling it quits.  I don’t mean art totally, but each piece has to have an ending, and it’s usually far short of the perfection that you intended. So it is with Sunny Chair Paradise.  I like it, but it doesn’t live up to what I’d like it to…

  • Where’s my Mauve pencil?

    No one will ever accuse me of being a neat freak.  Messiness seems to run in the family.  Here’s a photo of my studio. Somehow, the disorganization hasn’t kept me from efficiently doing art…in fact, I think it helps.  I’ve seen studios where the colored pencils are meticulously kept in color coordinated containers.  I think…

  • Prussian Blue

    I have done some new work on the sunny chair picture.  In it, I use liberally a color known as Indigo Blue.  I use that color a lot, never sure why.  I often use it in place of black, because it make a picture more interesting, IMO. But last night, coming home from work, I…