Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • That was fast….

    As usual, I did a 5×7 sketch before working on the full size version of “Freedom Tower”, the working title. Once I’ve gotten finished using this to work from, I may put it up on Ebay, someone might want it. Anyway, I still have to work on getting the verticals and horizontals right. But I…

  • An Urban Paradise

    I have concentrated on natural beauty as paradise. The truth is, though, some of us have found our paradise in a big city. What can be paradise among t he noise, bad smells, crowds and dirt? It’s a matter of being part of a community. For some of us, that’s paradise.. Here I am featuring…

  • My Big Break

    The art reception is over, and now I’m a famous artist!  Or, not, depends on how delusional I am on any given day. The reception went well.  Turned out to be just a few friends, and we all had a nice visit. Just what I was expecting, I don’t know.  I was incredibly anxious on…

  • 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…

  • Breaking the Rules

    Sometimes, in both life and in art, you have to say “screw it” to all the rules you know. Actually, I can’t think of a good example of life, at the moment, but I’m sure others have. I have always relied on a limited palette to hold together a composition.  Then I was faced with…

  • 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…

  • Lazy Day

    Been a busy week, and now I’m having a restful day.  Did a little work on Sunny Chair, but I’ve put a hold on it for a while.  I’m too tired to really do a good job. So, I thought I’d show some odds and ends of work I’ve done but never featured.  As usual,…

  • 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…

  • Another drawing

        I imagine it would not be possible to not mention the passing of Thomas Kinkaide.  He was a very skilled artist who marketed his work well.  His work is meaningful to a lot of people, and for all of the talk of his work being saccharin, he certainly contributed to the lives of…