Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Turning Back Time

    Turning Back Time

    I was wondering,  thinking about the learning curve I’m facing, whether it would be best to keep making versions until I got one that I liked.  That, is, after all, the way I learned to handle colored pencils in the beginning…….I’d just go over them and over them, until I  was so frustrated, I nearly…

  • Yet another learning curve

    Yet another learning curve

    Okay, I finished another small, masterpiece…sort of.  Thing is, these small works are not as successful as I’d like. In the past, I’ve done little work, as preliminary sketch for bigger drawings.  For instance: I got this:   From this: s I got this: In the past, I’ve managed to put in lot of detail…

  • The Saga of Pumpkin

    The Saga of Pumpkin

    I had a dream that we had two female kittens and I named them Thelma and Louise. No particular reason to tell  you this, but I enjoyed the dream. So, I’m going through making small drawings, the kind that I can sell at an impulse price. What would be a collection of my work without…

  • Redunnit

    Redunnit

    I volunteered at the Sono Art Festival in Norwalk, CT,  yesterday. I worked hard,but I had a lot of fun!  The artists were superb, and I made great friends, even if it was just for a few hours.  A very well run show and I hope to exhibit in it sometime in the future. But…

  • Out to Pasture

    Out to Pasture

    I’ve finished the classic car (sounds so much better than old carr) drawing.  You can see a detail above the title. Here it is in its entirety. It makes me think of what I’d like to do before, I’m too much of a Classic Woman, and go out to pasture myself. My dream is to…

  • Drawing a Conclusion

    Drawing a Conclusion

    My big mistake in “Broken Promise”, as it shall now be named, is that I forgot what I’m about.  I draw.  I get into a state of mindfulness, where’s there’s just me, the subject, and pencil and paper.  Read my intro,  is says that I love to draw, but enjoy color too, or some such…

  • I Don’t Like It

    I Don’t Like It

    Phooey!  Dammit, damn, damn  and damn, again! I really don’t like the way this turned out. It was supposed to be carefree…..but to me, it looks sloppy and lazy.  The piece of fecal matter I mentioned before.  I really had wanted it to come out like this: This: Or even this!   Here I’ve done…

  • I Make Good on My Promises

    I Make Good on My Promises

    I finished the rose garden, but I plan on giving it a better name.  My thought is it’s either a  piece of genius, or a piece of fecal matter.  My good friend assures me that it is neither, but she really likes it. So, here you go!  A drawing of a rose garden that my…

  • A Rose by Any Other Name

    A Rose by Any Other Name

    Still looks good in a picture with a cat.   Okay, enough about cats.  Do I hear a collective sigh of relief? I’ve been working on Rose Garden.  I was working on the first version while tired and sick, and it came out awful. Put it away to look at later, maybe it would look…