Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Pocket Paradise, 5×7 sketch

    I’ve been busy at work! Here’s the small version of “Pocket Paradise”, and I am pleased with it. My mouth is watering to start on the large version. But today, I have a date to meet an old high school friend, someone I haven’t seen in 40 (yes, count them, 40) years.

  • Freedom Tower auction

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/140971951111?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 Meant also to say that the 5×7 inch version of Freedom Tower is available on Ebay.

  • A Start…..

    This is the very beginning of a piece that will be titled “Pocket Paradise”. This is the 5x7n version, but I plan to do a full size one as well. Not only does it fit the theme of paradise, it also is a very personal image. This is the garden of the house in which…

  • Freedom Tower in Spring….the finish

  • Haikus: Urban Life

    These are Haikus from a colleague of mine. I just thought I’d share them here, I think they’re quite indicative of a student’s life in New York. Good going, Daphne!

  • getting close

    I’m getting ready to put the finishing touches on “Freedom Tower in Spring”. I’m going to wait to post a picture at this point….don’t want to give away the ending.

  • Next Work in Progress, Freedom Tower in Spring, and an artist’s frustrations

    Just to let those of you know who might be interested,  the 5×7 sketch of “Freedom Tower”, is now on Ebay:http://www.ebay.com/itm/140966258541?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 I have continued on with the larger version.  Here’s where it is now. I’m having fun with this.  There was a time when art wasn’t fun for me. I probably did my best work…

  • 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.…