Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • A Respite

    Two whole days off from a wild, emotional roller-coaster of a Christmas rush in retail. One of the aspects of the roller-coaster? The managers of the store being threatened by the family of a terminated employee. Did I say I wanted a job without drama? Anyway, the most recreational thing I can do for myself…

  • It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year….

    Unless you work in retail.  So, to all my retail working brothers and sisters in spirit, keep your chin up!  It’ll be over sooner than you know it. So, as promised, it’s after Thanksgiving, and I’ll rolling out the little Christmas cards I have done.  I’ve got to be careful here, I don’t want anyone…

  • Well, maybe it’s not so bad after all….

    I’m going to be brave and post “Grand Central, Sunday Morning”, despite my misgivings. I see some merit in it, for what it’s worth. Also, some work that I’ve hated, others have loved. So for what it’s worth. In the meantime, Grand Central Terminal is really hopping for the holiday season. It was so freaking…

  • Going once……

    A while back, some of you may remember me doing a drawing of an MS Bike Race for the MS Society of Connecticut’s silent auction.  To refresh your memory:   My good friend, Greg, put a bid on it….and I supposed that would be the only bid I’d get.  But no!  Greg was outbid.  I…

  • Wow, that was fast……..

    Unexpectedly, my Christmas/Yule/Channukah card project got me invigorated again. Instead of the dreary Christmas rush I face in December most years, and the empty holidays, I suddenly found a rush of how, as a child, I used to view Christmas. It was a secular holiday for us, and my mother had a bit of a…

  • Time Out

    Going to take a break for a while….for one thing, the holiday season in retail is demanding, and I won’t have much time for blogging. The “Grand Central Sunday Morning” failure is giving me the need to pull back and regroup, too. So, for the time being, I’m going to be working on some personal…

  • For what it’s worth…here’s Grand Central Sunday Morning

    Well, I finished “Grand Central Sunday Morning”, and I’m totally dissatisified with it.  And no, I  don’t have the patience to do it again.  I realize that I have a weakness when it comes to architectual detail, such as I found out in “Sentinel”. Every so often, a group of art students gather in Grand…

  • What the Hell do you think this is????????????? Grand Central Station?

    Somewhere, in my childhood, a teacher chided us like that.   So indeed, Grand Central Station is usually filled with noisy crowds. I’m working from a photo I took when the station wasn’t that crowded…..a Saturday morning.   Grand Central Station is mostly marble and stone.   So, one tends to think in terms of grays, and whites,…

  • All together now!

    As I’ve started this drawing of Grand Central Terminal, another memory of September 11 came to mind.   As many people were  reported missing, posters went up all over looking for missing loved ones.  Eventually, the Terminal put up a wall, at first as a place  to post searches, and unfortunately, it became a memorial.  On…