Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Throwing Away My Art Training

    As I start this drawing, I’m reminded of the words my teachers would say to me.  “Don’t draw every leaf.  Make a pattern of the light and shadow of the foliage, and just give a hint of texture”.  Okay, yes, that makes for wonderful landscapes.  However, what if I do want to draw every blessed…

  • Oh NO! It’s Only 2 O’Clock!

    Boy, Sundays can sure drag.  As I wait for Monday, so I can resume my job search, the minutes pass by slowly. I have but one piece of good paper left to do a drawing on.  So, it had better be good. So, here’s the story: Last winter, I went for a walk with some…

  • Words Fail Me

    I’ve been working on a drawing.  First version, I tried to do completely from imagination, and that turned out to be doomed to the trash can.  I should know better by now, that I need good reference pictures to do something believable. Then, good references in hand, I redid the drawing.  This time, I was…

  • There is Nothing You Can Name, That is Anything Like the Flu

    Greetings, friends… Facebook is letting me know that I’m letting my followers down.  Sorry about that.  Truth is, I’ve had the flu!  It’s hard to concentrate on drawing, art, and making sense of things in general, when you’re coughing your throat up, and your sinuses are as clogged as The Long Island Expressway at rush…

  • It Was a Nice Idea, While it Lasted

    Having a shortage of paper, and a shortage of energy, I decided the best way to keep up with my art, was to do little handmade notecards…much as I did holiday cards for the Winter Boutique.  Something that I could maybe sell for $5 easily at a later show of some sort.  Just relaxing, fun…

  • Richness in the Spartan

    Okay, so, here’s a mostly made up landscape with crows.  I think I managed to keep the horror movie aspect out of it. So, back to thinking of things that are delightful in the dark and the cold.  For instance, I think of the massive sky, that in other seasons, is hidden by and competing…

  • The Worst of 2016….and Moving Forward…

    I’m still a little groggy this morning.  I stayed up until midnight to see the ball drop in Time Square.  Makes me think, all the years I lived in New York City, and close proximity, I never made good on my intention to go to New Years in Times Square.  I think the lack of…

  • The Bird is the Word…

    As I work on the crow picture, I’m reminded of Alfred Hitchcock and “The Birds”.  I’m doing a number of crow, flourishing of course, in a limited color palette.  Now, how do I not make it look like this? It’s unfair to crows, which are a dignified, intelligent species of bird. To be fair, it’s…

  • Winter Depression….Just Deal with it!

    The title is a note to myself, not to those others who are suffering from SAD.  It makes one third of the year horrible, so I have tried many techniques through my art to …just deal with it! So, one year, I did a drawing each month to make peace.. An example was making peace…