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…

Material life had gotten in the way of producing artwork.  Right now, my time is going into cleaning this apartment (I’m a horrible housekeeper) in time for my very fussy landlord to come up and supervise the installation of double-paned windows. Also, sitting in the house with little human contact has gotten my creativity dry…plus…

I’m still working on the newest paradise picture.  I’ve come to a spot where I’m kind of stuck, but it will work out.  I’m not at my brightest…maybe spring fever? At any rate, I’ve lost my view of the skyline.  It happens every year about this time. The beautiful old sycamore out front get its…

I thought I’d show a drawing in the process of being done.  Here, I am taking subject matter from a photograph, and interpreting it.  I’m reducing the light and shadow in the photo to an interpretive design.  The action is spontaneous, I don’t plan what I’m going to do.  This keeps me fresher, and more…