Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • I’m getting really tired of drawing flowers…………

    So, I slave away at Floral Overload.  I like the way it’s coming out, but I swear, if I didn’t I would ditch it in a moment.  I never realized how monotonous drawing flowers would be.  They’re so intricate, and need a lot of analytical eyework (and brainwork) to draw.  Oh, God, oh god oh…

  • Calamity Roxy and the Color of My Dreams

    Still plugging away at Floral Overload, but I tellya it’s slow.  I’m working a lighter week at my day job now, so I do have more time…but remember how messy I am?  Well, it’s gotten to the point where I have to interrupt my (ahem) great art career, and shovel some of the clutter and…

  • 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