December 10, 2020
I am changing my website from Richard Baron Fine Arts to ART BY RICHARD BARON. This website is simpler in terms of content as well as to navigate. Likewise, my art is much easier to buy directly from me for originals as well as prints for my digital work.
Today, I transferred over from my old website blog to my new website. Not a lot of entries so it was easy to do.
My next task is to upload many more images and to add some images to the Artspan Market.
I am excited about this, though I feel sad that my old website didn't work out as well as I had hoped. Much of the problem is that I didn't know how to market my work in a beneficial manner.
So, look for future blog posts concerning my art and myself as a working artist.
Thank You.
Richard Baron
October 15, 2020
It has been a long time since I have posted. The world has really changed, especially in the past year. We are faced with continually larger wildfires, a pandemic that is ravaging our country, and a very controversial president and government with a population that has become extremely divided.
Since my GIS career has been taking a downturn in terms of work, I am turning my attention back to my art-work. Maybe, this is the time to really dedicate me to my art and getting it out into the world. I have a show at a local coffee house (Beatniks) in Chico and this is when I am launching this new direction for myself.
March 29, 2017
Encaustics and Digital Media Art Works
I have started to work again with Encaustics, but differently than when I was younger. I am incorporating into my work or using as my focus, digital art, or digital photos that are personal, biographical references besides working with pure abstract images. I have been working small on birch wood plywood as my substrate. These are original artworks that stand alone and are for sale individually.
March 29, 2017
Online Virtual Gallery Competition
I have two artworks in an online gallery competition (Seeing Blue). The name of the gallery is Gallery25N.
This is my first competition since I changed directions in my 40's. The two works are actually works I had done in my 30's.
May 4, 2016
Update
I am still alive and kicking!!! Thought I would update everyone on my artistic journey since I last wrote.
First of all, I got my printer back into commission. I bought it a few years ago, paid a lot of money but it is fantastic when it works. It is an Epson Stylus Pro R2400. They no longer make them. I hadn't used it for a long time and that was the reason I had to pay $500 plus to get a new printhead, etc. Found a fantastic repair person in Sacramento who was a licensed Epson printer repair person. He did a great job and I am printing again. It prints 13" x 19" sheets or 13" wide rolls.
I wasn't happy with the paper I was printing on so I paid to get samples from both Moab and Red River Printing. I am in the process of trying out different papers on various digital and giclee prints. I am excited by all the new possibilities.
One of them is starting to print out small 8.5 x11 or 13 x 19 prints and selling them as limited editions for very inexpensive prices. I am still dallying around with prices but will announce soon the deal. So all my work won't have to go through Fine Art America. I will be printing using pigment inks and archival, acid-free papers.
This is a digitally altered cell phone photo that I took in New Mexico on one of our trips. I love the southwest and I love old ruin type buildings. I like working with photographs as a base for my art, then letting my creative juices alter the photograph. I have struggled with this in the sense that is this true art, really creative, especially since my early work was much more abstract and expressionistic. And I am using digital tools rather than traditional media. I have to tell myself this is where I am at right now and I am having fun.
The other 2 things I am interested in is taking these digital images and either incorporating them into encaustic work or printing them on different types of substrates such as plexiglass, wood, metal, and clay. This really excites me and is a direction that I want to go in right now during my life.
This piece was from one of my earlier works on paper, digitally altered and enhanced. I used Studio Artist and Painter on this one. I rather like it.
November 11, 2015
Entering a post in the blog first time having moved to Chico.
I entered two pieces of art into a local (Chico) "swap" exhibition. First time since I moved to Chico that I have actually entered physical work.
This one is called "Trees in a Magical Forest", Oil on Paper 24"x 30".
This painting was painted outdoors while we were camping east of San Diego. Called "In the Forest", Acrylic on Paper, 24" x 30".
October 23, 2015
Playing With Studio Artist - I like It!
This piece I entered into the Maine Biennial and was accepted. At that time I was really interested in the Neo-Expressionists and Bernard Langlais of Maine.
I have this software package Studio Artist. I really like it. Yesterday I thought I would create a new image using one of my old paintings. This was purely experimental, trying new techniques, etc. But what is going on in my mind right now is trying to feel legitimate as an artist using digital tools. I would like to print out on good paper and mount on a board applying encaustic. Somehow I feel that unless I use traditional materials it isn't legitimate art. Yet what I find is that I can work quicker, make more changes, experiment more, use different sources of imagery at the same time in a computer environment. Anyway, below are the before and after using Studio Artist.
August 18, 2015
This work is part of my digital works that I have recently created. It is abstract, colorful but is about how I feel about my life at this time in my life. Semi-retired, facing my own mortality, I feel I am swimming in and am in the midst of different paths, streams, directions in my life with only a limited amount of time left.
Swirling in Muck, My life at 69
