Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Half Asleep and a WIP

    Erg.  Yawn, Ooompph. I took a sleeping pill last night because I’ve been having insomnia. A lot of things on my mind I guess,  though good.  Except the car breaking down 😦 What’s on my mind?   I’m getting ready for a holiday season where I will be selling my own products instead of someone…

  • It Mocks Me!

    It happens every year about this time…the view from my living room window mocks me.  The leaves fall, revealing one of the most beautiful, famous scenes anywhere.  Something I’ve tried and tried again to capture.  The Manhattan skyline. It mocks me. Some of my failures:     I must do this scene justice before I…

  • The Idea That Would Not Die…

    I finished the self-portrait in very little time.  I thought it would take several days, and I would fill in with humorous, anecdotal experience with my portraiture education and professional portraiture stories.  Like the blond boy with glasses who requested I make him look like Fonzi.  If you don’t know who Fonzi is, you have…

  • Some people want to fill the world with drawings of people singing silly love songs

    Finished “Love Ballad”, it went way more quickly than “Floral Overload”, and I’m just as pleased with it.  I worked using the direction of the pencil strokes to convey movement and sound.  So, here ’tis:   So, now what? I admit, I ran up against a brick wall when it came to ideas.  Not surprising,…

  • A Quick WIP

    Started work on the finish of “Love Ballad”.  I was not sure if I wanted to make the person a man or woman, but somehow, the figure came out androgynous, which is fine.  I wanted to make the guitarist somewhat sillhouetted, somewhat as I did in this:     Looking at the this, I can…

  • I love Rock N Roll, so put another 99 cents in my iPod, Baby

    So, I’ve started on …what’s the name?  Too many to choose from.  The rock singer.  As I originally thought, I’d do a loud colorful drawing, somewhat in the same vein as this that I did a long time ago.     But it’s the time of year when I turn mellow and sentimental.  I call…

  • The Grand Finale

    All my bitchin’ and moanin” has come to an end.  I’m finished with “Floral Overload”.  Honestly, I haven’t sweated so much over a drawing in years, but I like the result.  Months from now, it will be the result that means anything to me.     Now that I’ce done something really cheerful and lively,…

  • Will you stop complaining, for God’s sake, woman!

    Honestly, I was going to go into another rant on how bored I am drawing flowers.  Then I realized, you’re probably bored hearing me complain…so, peace.  As I go along, though, I find my flowers are becoming more scribbly. It still works, though. I usually don’t show my work this far along (rather give an…

  • Couldn’t resist

    While we’re waiting to do the finished video of the live painting, I’d like to show you a video that didn’t make the cut   What the hell?