Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • A Flower a Day Keeps the Psychiatrist Away

    Yes, doing artwork is good therapy…..for me at least.  It gave me a reason to live, when depression was clouding my perceptions as to the quality of my life.  These days, I’ve been so busy, that it is literally a flower a day.  So, rather than ruin the surprise of the finish of “Floral Overload”…

  • Another Work in Progress, and Dead in the Water

    I’m happy with the way “Floral Overload” is coming along.  Really, truly, I am.  But, it is a LOT of work. I can get maybe one flower done a day.  One factor is that my job leaves me fatigued, and I don’t have much time..so, Day Job hunting again.  Oh, and I’m going to see…

  • I’d like you to meet a friend…..

    And here’s her FB page. As I was saying…..I was looking for an animal cause for which I can do pet portraits.  I remembered my old high school buddy, Mrs. Dolittle.  She’s a holistic healer for animals, and I’m going to try to raise money for her to give hospice care to pets whose families…

  • If an artist draws in the forest, and there’s nobody to see, is it art?

    Work is coming along on “Floral Overload”.  Right now, there’s not enough further progress to show a work-in-progress.  Nothing new to show, so I’ll show something old. Something very old…from high school.  I eventually did a very large version as a mural for the school I attended. Truth is, I’m feeling stuck.  I need to…

  • These are the Breaks!

    I’ve gotten far enough with the full-sized version of “Floral Overload’, to show a work in progress….and here ’tis: The trick is, to make every individual part a complete composition, so every area could make a complete drawing.  Or so I’ve figured out, as I go along. I”m having great fun with this!   But…

  • Bye, Bye, Love

    Imagine a love story, of a beautiful young man and woman, full of passion, the usual sex, drugs, and rock n roll…..living together, not living together, other women, other men… And the young man dies in the end. It would make a great movie, but it was hell to live through.  It’s the story of…

  • A link………………………………

    inspiration for my artist followers  

  • Channeling Georgia O’Keefe….

    So, I finished the sketch of “Floral Overload”, and here it is: So, now I begin on the large version. For that, I realized I would have to do the flowers in careful, realistic detail.  For that, I’d need good flower pictures to study and draw. For any artist who may not be aware of…

  • I don’t know what the er, fudge, I’m doing

    Fudge is a nice euphemism, isn’t it?  Instead of harsh profanity, you get a remembrance of chocolate delight, maybe days in the kitchen as a child, helping with the stirring of candy, sun shining through the curtains….I went off on a tangent I guess. Picasso (at least I think it was Picasso), said “Inspiration can…