Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Giving Me a Break!

    I would have done the worst of 2015 today, but I am feeling less than in good spirits.  It will pass, but in the meantime, I’m going to be good to myself, and pass on posting the bad stuff.  What is meant to be a light hearted, not taking myself to seriously post, is turning…

  • Still Life Does Not Mean Dead Life..

    Whenever I’ve gone to an art show, I’ve always found the obligatory displays of painting and fruit to be pretty boring.  Yes, I realize there’s a matter of technique, but I’ve always thought of such things as elementary lessons in drawing and painting, an exercise, until you are skilled enough to do more ambitious subject…

  • For an Encore….Presenting, MUD!

    The gathering I went to, and snapped the mud picture, was in a beautiful reserve in Kansas.  It was easy to think of spirits and sprites inhabiting the landscape.  Nature spirits?  I believe they’re Dryads, I may be wrong.  Anyway, that was my association, back there on that day in very early fall.  So, in…

  • I’m Hiding Something….

    I like to hide things in my artwork.  Just about everyone has seen the flowers in this one:   But did you know there’s a cat in this one? Yes, it’s a very abstract cat. I wanted to put a cat in a window in this, but decided it would take away from the subject…

  • Presenting: MUD!

    I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday, whichever you celebrate. I’m sending good thoughts for everyone for a wonderful 2016.  I’ll be presenting my worst of the year,soon, and it may include THIS: That’s mud alright, in it’s basic boring form.  When I took the photo, I was intrigued by the sculptural quality…

  • A Good Friend Will Never Ask,

    “Why are you taking pictures of mud?” At the gathering I went to last year in Kansas, my good friend didn’t ask me that when she saw me photographing this:   She did look at me quizzically however.  The reason?  To do a better drawing of mud, of course.  Black and white sketch below.  …

  • Talk About the Cat from New York City

    As I look at this drawing I’ve done of our rescue, Pumpkin, I realize it’s also part a goodbye piece (and peace) to New York City.   I won’t say goodbye for good, because one thing I’ve learned in life, is you never know what the future will bring. Back in the 1980’s, as a…

  • I Didn’t Really Feel Like Doing Any Art, Yesterday.

    One thing I find about doing art, is that you have to keep it up.  In some respects, it’s like exercise or meditation, if you slack off a day, you’re likely to slack off the next day…and then, before you know it, you’ve fallen back into the life of a slug sitting endlessly at your…

  • Some Information about Me….

    I don’t go into my past that much, I pretty much believe in making the best of things and moving on.  I realize, though, not giving you the perspective of my early life, may make the philosophy behind my work seem naive, maybe even Pollyanna-ish.  Also, maybe others hearing about the struggles I have gone…