Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • 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…

  • 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…