Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • 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…

  • My Mother Would Have a Fit

    As I looked at this, after a break, my mother’s voice came to me. “The composition is terrible! It’s too even. The butterflies and flowers should overlap! What do you think you’re doing?” My mother passed away nearly 20 years ago, so I think it’s probably time I stopped listening to her. This has a…

  • 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…