Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • What about it, Roxy, are you still a genius?

      Somebody put this on my Facebook newsfeed.  Could go for my art career as well.  My plan was to be a successful, famous artist by the time I was 25.  Yeah, right.  In  a world where feces in a can is art, I didn’t stand a chance.  Not to mention,that if I had made…

  • A Day in the Life, and a Work in Progress

    Damn!  This is the first day off from work I’ve had in seven days.  I had forgotten how precious free time is when you work full time. Most important thing done today, laundry.  Honestly, I couldn’t have gone any longer without washing clothes, unless I turned them inside out and wore them that way.  As…

  • Monday Morning coming down…

    Happy New Week, my friends Here’s the sketch for this picture that I don’t have a title for yet.  You can get an idea of the whole lost and found lines and color blocks.  I may get a chance to work on the large version today, but like most people….today I go to my day…

  • But if I May Repeat Myself….

    Coupla things….. I went fulltime at my day job.  The idea was to have income while I worked on my art, and advanced my career.  As it turns out, the less spare time I have,the more I value it, the more I get things done. So, welcome me to the rat race my friends.. Also,…

  • Sunnyside is not so sunny

    Couldn’t live without the man I love, so I moved back in.  I live in a community called Sunnyside in Queens, NY.  A lot of the pictures I drew were objects in this little community. But to my dismay, they’ve wrecked some of them.  Remember “My Brain off Drugs”?     The whole park, playground and…

  • Sometimes, never happens

    I look back on some of my old work: “Companions”, “Autumn Song” and others, and I’m reminded of the relationship that I thought would never end. But both he and I are no longer the people we were at the beginning. My art and relating it to contributing to the world are foremost for me,…