I see changes I want to make to Tree Top Paradise.  While I was doing that, I started thinking of other depictions of paradise in art history. The strangest has to be “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, by Bosch.  You can spend a long time just looking at the various figures.  It reminds me of…

“Treetop Paradise” is now sitting, waiting to be looked at with a fresh eye.   I think it’s done, but I’ll review. In the meantime, today, I did something I’ve procrastinated about for months…taking better pictures of drawings I already did.  Here they are, hope you enjoy a clearer look.   This is “Companions” “Guardians” “My…

Like many artists, at this point in my career I am not making enough off my art to fully support myself.  Therefore, I have a part-time job to supplement my earnings. I work in a retail bakery.  I can’t say much about the company I work for, due to my employment agreement. What I can…

As always, my work can be seen at Roxannebaldwin.com.

One of the problems for an unknown artist in NYC is finding places to exhibit.  I frequently check Craigslist, but all the opportunities require that you pay a certain amount of money up front….money I don’t have.  One such place advertised itself as a gallery, and to find out about exhibiting there, I would have…

My first art teacher was actually my mother.  She gave me a pencil as soon as I could hold it.  When I was trying to draw things as a child, and didn’t know how, she’d demonstrate.  I remember clearly her showing me how to make a kitten look young, instead of like an adult cat.…

  Well, after jury duty, starting a new part-time job, a bad cold, and food poisoning, I’m back at my artwork and my blog.  Do still seem to have something wrong with my left wrist however.  Enough complaining. At long last, I did a new piece.  I like it a lot, and I’m considering making…

My work can be seen at roxannebaldwin.com

  For those of you who wonder about my influences, I’d like to show you one.  This is Eyvind Earle, who did work for Disney. (When I was four, I just wanted to see “Sleeping Beauty” over and over again).  He mostly worked as an illustrator, using patterns and flat areas to create images. Eyvind…