Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Time Flies When You’re Working Retail…..

    Or, oh dear..it’s that time of year. It’s the Christmas Rush…or if you’re more politically correct, the Holiday Rush.  As for me, I go with the Yuletide Rush, since it encompasses the Christmas Holiday with the Winter Solstice.  So, the light returning to the Earth in the darkest time of year?  How can you argue…

  • Sunshine, Lollipops, Rainbows, Everything….

    The title is lyrics to a song, way back when I was a child. I wonder how many of my readers remember that song, and wish they didn’t. So, here’s the complete on the rainbow drawing. Misses the mark in a few ways. I wanted to make the rainbow more pastel, and light, as I…

  • On the Subject of Rainbows….

    Another more modern association with rainbows is gay equality, diversity, etc.  Oh yes, it’s a fertile metaphor BUT! I see so many rainbow drawing that are just wrong, and do not capture the spirit of the promise after the storm.  First of all, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a rainbow against a blue, sunny…

  • Ahem,….While We’re Waiting

    Well, still my pencils and papers are in limbo, between dwelling places.  As an old friend of mine would put it, I’m “jonesing” on lack of creative time.  My eyeballs are bulging, and the veins in my forehead are throbbing.  So it feels, at least.  Recently, I’ve been reading that simple coloring relaxes adults in…

  • Happy Holidays and All That Jazz…

    I’m getting ready for another Black Friday in retail, today, but in Connecticut instead of NYC.  Yes, the move is final now…..I’m in Connecticut.  I had my first Thanksgiving with a working oven in about 10 years..and let me tell you, turkey cooked in a crock pot, just isn’t the same. Ah, Connecticut…..   Home.…

  • A Stroll in the Old Neighborhood…

    Here I am, being nostalgic again. As we were packing the car with a load of *stuff* to take to the new place, I saw my landlord’s chair, against the stone wall. He’s had it there all the years we lived there, probably many years before, and now…. It got me thinking of how the…

  • Good-bye, New York

    Well, I’m settled into my own place in Connecticut, now.  It occurs to me, that this is the time of year, I’d get my view of the skyline back, because the leaves would fall off the sycamore.  So, a revisit to that view.

  • Every Rainbow Starts With a Storm…or a Sketch as the Case My Be

    So, her’e the rough sketch…and rough it is.  It’s painfully lacking in interesting details, but then, that’s what sketches are for. In the past, I would jump in full-sized, with no prior sketch, and waste mucho dollars on paper, doing version after version. I now eliminate problems from having done the sketch…and since the paper…

  • At Battle with Cliches and Archetypes again…

      Yes, it’s a rainbow.  It’s a cliche….or is it an archetype?   I think I’ve been through this argument before.  It’s been a feature of mythology and literature, everywhere from the Great Flood, to the Wizard of Oz.  It’s a beautiful, inspiring sight.  This was what I saw on the way back on the…