Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • The Comfort Zone, and taking risks

    I get the impression that many artists from experience know pretty well what each pencil or brushstroke will do.  They’ve mastered their particular medium, and they can create without too many surprises. Every so often,in the artist forum, I read about artists talking about the Comfort Zone.  This mastery is what I think they mean…

  • Lazy Day

    Been a busy week, and now I’m having a restful day.  Did a little work on Sunny Chair, but I’ve put a hold on it for a while.  I’m too tired to really do a good job. So, I thought I’d show some odds and ends of work I’ve done but never featured.  As usual,…

  • Ode to Oil Paint

    In trying to get together the live action painting business, I invested in some oil paint sticks.  They’re oil paint that you can actually roughly draw with. So just to see what it felt like I tried one.  What I didn’t expect was to be so affected by the aroma. As with everyone, sometimes a…

  • Relaxing…..

    It’s been a cloudy, lazy weekend.  I took advantage, and got some rest. I have been working on Sunny Chair, though.  It’s evolving. At one time, I used to start out a picture with an exact idea in mind of what I wanted it to look like, and work towards that.  One thing that I…

  • In the Place We Live 2012

    Last night was the reception for the show.  It was a lot smaller than it was last year, and the AC actually worked this year!  I was delighted that the manager from my job, Dave, and his lovely wife Kelly came. There was a lot of interesting work from local artists from Western Queens.  I…

  • Happy Little Clouds

    Bob Ross made a lot of people discover how joyful painting is.  I found this video..enjoy. Happy Little Clouds

  • Doing some hard work

    After taking a day off, I’m hard back at work.  I’ve decided to do a large version of Sunny Chair.  This time, because it’s such a simple subject, I decided I would really work with different textures and pencil strokes to create interest. In this work in progress, you can see I’m starting out with…

  • My Tantrum

    On Craigslist, I had a little tantrum about the naiveté of people posting.  Some think that actually only posting on Craigslist they will find a gallery (not a vanity gallery), an agent willing to work for a percentage,not an upfront fee, and a patron, in the old sense, of paying you to create with no…

  • Boooooring

    A lot of the work of an artist doesn’t make for particularly good blog posts.  For instance, yesterday, I dropped off two pictures at an art show, and put together an application for Percent for Art.  Just boring stuff I gotta do. In the online forum I go to, they say an artist has to…