Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Royalty….at last

    First a note about Scraggly Weed. As I was looking out my window, I noticed another artist was attracted to the plant on which my drawing is based. This time, a photographer, with a zoom lens, taking a close up of one of the fronds. Don’t know if he managed to capture a butterfly. Anyway,…

  • Good night, Scraggly Weed

    I’ve put aside Scraggly Weed for a while to be revisited. I got carried away, and the reference to Audrey II is accurate. It ended up looking like a demonic, carnivorous Christmas tree, and nothing scraggly about it. Maybe in the depths of winter I will revisit it, when I can be more objective about…

  • Soundview Park Festival

    Yesterday was the festival for which I neglected artwork, and housework for. I had a good time, but, no sales. I feel I might have been successful if I had done some small portraits of people for not too much money. It was a very child oriented event. Lot’s of face painting and arts and…

  • Scrambling

    The day job took over last week, worked extra hours, no time for artwork. Hell, though, I need the money. I’m tired as a dog now, can’t really do any work on scraggly weed, which is beginning to look like Audrey II in “Little Shop of Horrors”. Last week, I answered an ad for an…

  • I think Hell just froze over

    For those of you who know me, you know I’m quite a  messy person.  But now, I don’t know what got into me, but I’m beginning to be neat.  My pencils are still in a jumble, but that’s okay.  I’m determined not to become nit-picky about it. So, in between cleaning, sorting and straightening, I…

  • Mother……..ing, son of a …….

    I’ve started the sketch of “Scraggly Weed”. This is the 5×7 version, and the wall, of course is all off. It will be corrected in the final version. What I do have to do to make the butterflies stand out, is what is called “negative drawing”. You do the front first, and work around that…

  • OMG….Everything is weeping!

    Just noticed as I was finishing this, that I put in a weeping willow, a weeping pine, and made it a rainy day. Hmmn, the unconsious mind works in strange ways. Maybe sadness about the plight of those who live with MS? Maybe. Anyway, here’s the finish to “MS Bike Ride”. I changed the composition…

  • The Scraggly Weed

    The MS Bike Ride is turned over, so I can get a fresh look at it for final touches. Then, in the meantime….here’s a fable. The Scraggly Weed Away, on a very small street, in a very small neighborhood, in a very big city, there was a row of houses. In front of each house,…

  • Changing direction

    I didn’t work on the MS bicycle ride for a while. I started to add the background, and put in a weeping willow. It made the whole thing look kitschy and awful. I tried to erase it, but it was too firmly drawn, that I couldn’t do it. I got very discouraged. But then, the…