Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Freedom Tower, work in progress 2

    I’ve gotten the foreground of “Freedom Tower” pretty much done.  I may go back and look at it with a fresh, but I think that’s it. While I was doing this, it occurred to me that visual arts are a lot like music.  You’ve got compositions, rhythms, and harmonies.  I tried, here, to get a…

  • 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…

  • Freedom Tower

    My next piece won’t be part of the paradise series.  It’s going to be a full-size drawing of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, as seen from my window.  Here’s a quick sketch….of course I have to work on those verticals. The bombings in Boston reminded me so much of the atmosphere around NYC…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Prussian Blue

    I have done some new work on the sunny chair picture.  In it, I use liberally a color known as Indigo Blue.  I use that color a lot, never sure why.  I often use it in place of black, because it make a picture more interesting, IMO. But last night, coming home from work, I…

  • 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,…

  • 59th Street Bridge

    This is a drawing of the bridge that spans the East River between Manhattan and Queens. It’s commonly called the 59th Street Bridge, but its official name is the Queensboro Bridge. I wanted to add some interest to the background, so it wouldn’t be an ordinary picture of a structure. I did this a couple…

  • Here’s the aceo of my new work “Sentinel”. It’s based on the view out the staff cafeteria at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is where I work.