Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Portrait of the Artist as a Kitten…Stage 2

    Okay, progress….I have a title!  Once again, I identify with cats. As promised, this picture is going to be complex with a lot of preliminary work.  Here’s the next stage:   Some of you may recognize it as the front yard of my good friends’ home in Connecticut.  I was going to search through stock…

  • Riddle Me This:

    What do this kitten: This old drawing of mine:   This geranium:   And this scene I photographed while visiting friends have in common?   I’m going to weave them all into a very complex drawing..something that’s been on my mind since I was young…but was always a little timid to try.  So, there are…

  • My Kind of Surrealism

    Okay, it’s after a rainstorm on a late afternoon in summer.  All the traffic lights are green as far as the eye can see. Enough symbolism?  Too obvious maybe? I’m not fond of making the viewer work too hard.  I feel it’s the artist’s job to be understandable.  If you want something obscure, try real…

  • The Story Behind the Ugly Photograph…

    Going home from work one night, my beloved and I waited at a traffic light.  It went green, as traffic lights do, if they’re in working order.  Not only did that light turn green-all the lights as far as the eye could see did as well.  Smooth sailing home. So, in the ugly photograph, the…

  • Ta Dah! And now for my next trick…

    “King of the Beasts” is completed.  For some reason, it seemed more interesting with parts of it left rough.  I’m not sure what, if anything, this drawing has to do with healing.  It makes people happy…maybe that’s enough. Anyway.    

  • Let’s Put It Aside. (Maybe It’ll Look Better in the Morning)

    Came to a good stopping place on “King of the Beasts”.  It’s being set aside, I’m going to look at it with a fresh eye in the morning.  It it meets approval, by me of course, I will post it.  If not, it’s back to the drawing board…literally. So…for now, I’m bringing you… AN UGLY…

  • Now How the Heck Am I Going to Handle This?

    Finally got some work done on, what I shall title, “King of the Beasts”.  Here’s a work-in-progress shot.   What is it that I need to handle?  I’m working from a photograph, with the stuffed animals stopping in the image before I stop my drawing.  In other words, I have a lot of empty space…

  • No apologies…this is cute as #&@@#

    While I was visiting my brother and his wife, I was shown some of their photos.  Among them, was their kitten, Max, hidden among stuffed animals.  The colorful animals made a lively color scheme.  And of course, it had a cat.  I just had to draw it. Okay, I try to stay away from things…

  • Pfffftttttt…so much for that….

    Jobs come and go.  Money comes and goes.   In other words, fed up with the new job. But I finally got a enough spare minutes put together to do some artwork. So, finally finished “The Dance”.