Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Distraction

    Distraction

    I know many artists are making sad art,reflecting the current times. I’m not good at that, my attempts at sad, thoughtful art have been damn depressing. Who needs that? The best I can do is bittersweet. I want to try to contribute something during this sad time, but I don’t have much in way of…

  • Part two

    Part two

    So, I finished the full-sized drawing of Man,Dog, Phone, and Parrot. I guess I could add chain link fence to the title, but that would be too long. I cheated. I started to draw the stairs, got them so out of perspective, that I just decided to make a cubist design out of the background.…

  • 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…

  • #selfquaratine

    #selfquaratine

    Good afternoon all!  It was a good afternoon, until I coughing.  So, hoping for the best, In the meantime, I haven’t heard of a virtual contagion of coronavirus, so anyone reading this blog is safe. But cat lovers rejoice!  Let me remind you that for us, it’s St. Gertrude of Nivelles Day, the Patron Saint…

  • A little bit of this, a little bit of that

    A little bit of this, a little bit of that

    It looks as if my subject matter in Danbury, Connecticut is going the same way as in Sunnyside, Queens.  Bits and pieces of the neighborhood, put together in multiple ways…so, I’m starting… A little bit of this: A little bit of that…. And then there’s that… Not to mention this… And believe it or not……this:…

  • Originality is for nerds

    Originality is for nerds

    In my own backyard…Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. When I was a teenager, another student asked me, “Why do you always draw trees?” I like trees, and I still do. Not to mention, there are a lot of them So,shoot me. I may draw the same subject over and over. If that’s good enough…

  • Welcome!

    Welcome!

    Whoop,there it is Sometimes, I think an alter ego sneaks into my pencil box. I find I do something that doesn’t resemble the rest of my at all. Channeling maybe? I try not to think much about it. Anyway I don’t know how well this drawing shows up, so here it is again It reminds…

  • For my latest trick

    For my latest trick

    I decided, for the heck of it, to do some networking on Linkedin.  I’m not really sure how to go about it, but I seem to have connected with a lot of other artists there.  For those of you out there who are interesting in networking with others out there, and youre not living in…