Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Help Wanted: An Inventor

    For sometime, I’ve been looking for the perfect art supply.  It can take images in my mind, project them directly from my eyes, and develop the picture on the paper, with absolutely no handiwork from me.  If you can come up with it, I guarantee you’ll make a fortune. But since that doesn’t exist at…

  • Art Career and the Day Job

    Sometimes, at work, I feel like shouting “Quick!  Go back to school and become an accountant before it’s too late!”   No, I lie.  I spent many years trying to come to terms with working a menial job, when I wanted to be an artist.  Spent many years in frustration, thinking, “I’m better than this”.…

  • Where’s my Mauve pencil?

    No one will ever accuse me of being a neat freak.  Messiness seems to run in the family.  Here’s a photo of my studio. Somehow, the disorganization hasn’t kept me from efficiently doing art…in fact, I think it helps.  I’ve seen studios where the colored pencils are meticulously kept in color coordinated containers.  I think…

  • The Comfort Zone, and taking risks

    I get the impression that many artists from experience know pretty well what each pencil or brushstroke will do.  They’ve mastered their particular medium, and they can create without too many surprises. Every so often,in the artist forum, I read about artists talking about the Comfort Zone.  This mastery is what I think they mean…