Tag: Long Island City

• While We’re Waiting..

  I did that cheerful early spring drawing, and now….IRL, we’re back to grey, dull, cloudy days.  Anything spring-like I’d have to fake, and that never turns out well.  So, I wonder, can I portray beauty in the dismal days? I once tried doing a painting of Park Avenue in New York City on a cloudy […]

  roxannebaldwin

  February 23, 2018

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  Art, cityscape, Cloudy day, drawing, landsape, Long Island City, rainbow, rainy day, urban landscape

• It’s a Secret

  I bet you’ve been wondering why I haven’t been posting.  Well, no, not really, I expect you all have lives other than reading my blog.  But the truth is I haven’t posted for a while…and there’s a good reason.  I’m working on a drawing, but it’s a secret. Why keep it a secret?  In some […]

  roxannebaldwin

  March 15, 2015

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  Art, art show, Black Madonna, drawing, Long Island City, mary magdalene, ny New York, Queens, Surprise

• 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 […]

  roxannebaldwin

  August 24, 2012

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  Art, construction, drawing, Long Island City, New York City, Queens, skyscape, sunset