Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Winter Work

    “Blizzard” “Tarrywile” “Crows” “Fading Morning Star”   “Winter Visitors” Companions “Winter Visitors” January, 2nd. All are 16×20 inches, at $250 framed.  They are colored pencil on watercolor paper, and frame size is 20×24 inches  

  • Cat-In-The-Box

    One of the more exciting things I’ve done since I’ve posted, is become a Grumbacher art instructor at Michael’s.  Okay, maybe I’ve mentioned it before….but for real!  I actually got some students!  Weather permitting, I’ll be giving a class in acrylics tomorrow night. We’re having a snowstorm right now, and the temperature will be dropping…

  • Happy 2018!

    We’ve gotten past the holiday season, with all the stress and all the blessings behind us.  I look forward to getting back to normal…back to work, if I had a job, and being able to go out to a store without massive crowds. So much so, that a couple of years ago, I titled this…

  • The End of Another Year

    I’ve been gone for a while, in case you haven’t noticed.  I ran into a dry spell with my artwork.  I had gone from “having fun”, with my work…to tearing my hear out and cursing at the boredom of drawing foliage.  I guess it goes in cycles…and I have to take a break. I also…

  • It Sort of Makes Sense

    So, in tribute to Autumn coming – hard to tell with the summer weather we’ve been having-I did this drawing, “September Field”. I’ve always been attracted to drawing landscapes, and now I realize why.  Landscapes capture moods in complex way.  I’m not talking something simple like a sunny day being happy. I’m talking about the…

  • The Seasons Changed, and So Did I

    Okay, when I posted back some time ago, I was complaining about drawing foliage.  This started a downward spiral to me hating doing artwork all together, and hating my finished drawings.  I’d see ideas for artwork, but I’d shiver in disgust at the thought of drawing. So, I stopped for a while. I don’t make…

  • A Creative Life, Told in Pictures

    Or, my flirtation with abstraction. Long ago, I feel in love with reality.  Hard to explain that, right?  I don’t go much for fantasy movies, or fiction for that matter.  Give me a good, non-fiction book on modern physics or psychology, and I’m happy. So, when it came to art, I liked to portray things…

  • Summer Vacation

    I’m going to have to take a break from artwork for a while.  I have ideas, but all of them contain lots and lots of foliage.  You know what?  I’m sick to death of drawing lots and lots of foliage, and I’ve also about run out of green pencils.  So, until I either come up…

  • Patience, my dear, patience

    I’ve actually found something that’s more tedious than drawing a lot of dots….drawing around a lot of dots.  The dots in question are meant to be clover, and the around, grass. It’s a shame I had to throw out so much of my old artwork.  No space, no time to move it.  There are some…