Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • The Worst of 2016

    Yes, you read that right.  I already have a candidate for my worst art of the year.  I guess I’m still not feeling the greatest, and my judgment is off, but I really bombed hard on this one:   I meant to exaggerate the colors in this slightly, but went clearly overboard.  It came out…

  • “It’s Been a Long, Cold, Lonely Winter….”

    Everyone is familiar with “Here Comes the Sun” by George Harrison.  I was, however, introduced to the song through this cover: Peter Tosch….Here Comes the Sun It was an anthem of a very beautiful spring. Anyway, back to the present.  It feels as if it’s been a long winter, but it hasn’t.  In fact, the…

  • Giving Me a Break!

    I would have done the worst of 2015 today, but I am feeling less than in good spirits.  It will pass, but in the meantime, I’m going to be good to myself, and pass on posting the bad stuff.  What is meant to be a light hearted, not taking myself to seriously post, is turning…

  • Still Life Does Not Mean Dead Life..

    Whenever I’ve gone to an art show, I’ve always found the obligatory displays of painting and fruit to be pretty boring.  Yes, I realize there’s a matter of technique, but I’ve always thought of such things as elementary lessons in drawing and painting, an exercise, until you are skilled enough to do more ambitious subject…

  • For an Encore….Presenting, MUD!

    The gathering I went to, and snapped the mud picture, was in a beautiful reserve in Kansas.  It was easy to think of spirits and sprites inhabiting the landscape.  Nature spirits?  I believe they’re Dryads, I may be wrong.  Anyway, that was my association, back there on that day in very early fall.  So, in…

  • I’m Hiding Something….

    I like to hide things in my artwork.  Just about everyone has seen the flowers in this one:   But did you know there’s a cat in this one? Yes, it’s a very abstract cat. I wanted to put a cat in a window in this, but decided it would take away from the subject…

  • Presenting: MUD!

    I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday, whichever you celebrate. I’m sending good thoughts for everyone for a wonderful 2016.  I’ll be presenting my worst of the year,soon, and it may include THIS: That’s mud alright, in it’s basic boring form.  When I took the photo, I was intrigued by the sculptural quality…

  • Merry Christmas to All Who Celebrate It!

    And best wishes for a wonderful weekend, to those who don’t!

  • A Good Friend Will Never Ask,

    “Why are you taking pictures of mud?” At the gathering I went to last year in Kansas, my good friend didn’t ask me that when she saw me photographing this:   She did look at me quizzically however.  The reason?  To do a better drawing of mud, of course.  Black and white sketch below.  …