Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • 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…

  • About photography

    It seems to me, that it might be possible to misinterpret my stance on photography as an art form from my post “Just like a photograph”. I consider photography to be a fine art medium, that takes skill and talent.  My feeling, is that to be a truly great photographer, is harder than being a…

  • From a couple of years ago

    It’s not a good day for doing artwork, so I thought I’d post about something for a while ago. After Michael Jackson’s death, I thought someone might appreciate a hand-painted portrait of him.  I painted this, and put it up on eBay. What a disaster.  I was in competition with Chinese artists who work for…

  • Tired

    Well, ordinary, pedestrian things in life have gotten me tired.  So not much to post about today. The good thing is that two of my drawings have been accepted into the “In the Place We Live” show.  The sketch for Tree Top Paradise is one, the other is my sketch for through the sycamore.   I’m…