Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Sheltering in place

    Sheltering in place

    So, what are you all doing in self quartine? Reading? Yes! Facetime? Yes! Video Games? Yes! Hobbies? Yes! Housework? Errr, um Surprise, I actually am doing housework, among other things. You see, I had scheduled this week off since January. A friend from overseas was going to be visiting. So. due to COVID-19, he wasn’t…

  • IN the wink of an eye

    IN the wink of an eye

    For those of you who noticed…….I took down my last post. For those of you who didn’t notice…it’s just as well. I was working on this, but was tired and sick…didn’t I once title a post, “Friends don’t let other friends draw sick”. If I didn’t I should have. I put up a post and…

  • I Wanted to Sell Out!

    But no one was buying. (Warning: Bad art displayed, here) I always wanted to make a living with my art.  At first, I wanted to design posters.  I assumed that if a subject appealed to me, then it would appeal to other people.  However, I think most artists create with that in mind. I’ve been…

  • Stick a fork in it

    Sometimes, the hardest thing in art is calling it quits.  I don’t mean art totally, but each piece has to have an ending, and it’s usually far short of the perfection that you intended. So it is with Sunny Chair Paradise.  I like it, but it doesn’t live up to what I’d like it to…

  • Where’s my Mauve pencil?

    No one will ever accuse me of being a neat freak.  Messiness seems to run in the family.  Here’s a photo of my studio. Somehow, the disorganization hasn’t kept me from efficiently doing art…in fact, I think it helps.  I’ve seen studios where the colored pencils are meticulously kept in color coordinated containers.  I think…