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…

  • Freedom Tower, 1st work in progress

    Here’s the stage where I am in doing the large version of “Freedom Tower”.  As I usually find, when you translate something small into something much larger, you run into difficulties in detail and composition.  Here I’m finding I need more trees to fill up the foreground. In reality, the foreground is actually a cemetery.…

  • No Place Like Home…..

    I’ve started work on the large “Freedom Tower”, but so far, don’t really have enough to show a work in progress. So here’s something I did a little earlier.  It’s one of the Paradise series.  It’s an interior, for I know some for some people, paradise is their own home.  That is, especially if it…

  • 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…

  • Heaven

    For those who believe that paradise is in the sky with God. Still a valid belief.