Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • 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…

  • I Promise You a Rose Garden

    I Promise You a Rose Garden

    Spoiler Alert!  It will look something like this, but hopefully (there’s that word again, hopefully) much better.    This, of course, is the preliminary sketch, Speaking of roses, I just sent a batch of note cards to a long lost friend.  This of course which I know I have posted before. The detail and control…

  • Questionable Quandary

    Questionable Quandary

    Hurray for spell check!  Otherwise, I would have misspelled quandary. Thank God for the blessings of our digital world.  Some of those blessings I’m not so fond of, however. But I digress.  This blog is about art, not the information age. So, now the quandary. My latest drawing came out very well, in my opinion. …

  • Missed the Boat…

    Missed the Boat…

    Every so often, I do something that, to me, is unacceptable.  In other words I….fail. Usually I don’t redo the ones that miss the mark, but this time I will. The featured picture is probably the best of the tries I made of this idea.  I did it when I was painting with acrylic, rhinestones…