Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Flourishing, not Surving

    So, as I think about getting through the winter once again, I remind myself that certain species do very well in the cold, dark time of year. It used to be that in Connecticut, there were all sorts of winter birds.  There were titmice, chickadees, and lots of cardinals.  I’m not sure where they are…

  • Let’s Get Small!

    I’ve worked in the same size for finished drawings since the 1980’s.  In those days, I would do copy after copy until my frustration limit, or until I got the drawing as I wanted it.  Truthfully, I mostly compromised between those two points.  It would take maybe five efforts, and I managed to complete only…

  • Mate for Life???? Who does that anymore?

    Crows do. Some people do, too. There are probably other animals in the world who do, but this is a post about crows.  And people. Going back down memory lane, I have a few drawings that were metaphors for lifetime relationships. As my boyfriend says, “I guess we’re stuck together”   Oh, yes, the Work-In-Progress…

  • Quoth the Raven, “You’re Giving Me a Bad Rap”.

    One thing about Danbury…there’s lots of crows.  It kind of freaked me out at first, I usually associate them with death.  I also tend to, when living in NYC, associate crows as one of the only birds that would be around in the winter, to pick at garbage.  It’s not a compelling subject matter. Once…

  • 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…