Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • 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…

  • Fading away

    When I first moved to Danbury, the ideas for pictures came in a rush. It was a lot like being in a wild, passionate beginning stage of love.  Once the highs and lows have straightened out, you’re either left with a solid, loving friendship..or a lot of bittersweet memories. As it was, I really was…

  • Looking at the Smaller Picture…

    Without working in the retail Christmas rush, I have gotten past the rush.  Now, New Year’s is on the horizon, and then that expanse of time known as winter. Last year, I spent winter exploring the new landscape around me, a suburban, not New York City surrounding.  Nothing much has changed in this new area…

  • Wasting No Time

    I said I was eager to get back to the rainbow drawing.  As soon as I was finished with the pet portrait, I got right back on it. It looks, still, quite a bit like the smaller version, but I drew the rainbow in with a lot of white space, a la impressionism, to give…

  • I Seem to Have Forgotten Something…

    All this while, I was being very secretive about a project I was doing.  I figured I’d unveil the final product once it had been produced as Holiday cards, and given to my coworkers. However, having had a chaotic month for most of December, I had a complete, senior moment on that.  Or maybe I…

  • Happy Holidays, I’ve gotten sidetracked….

    Or Merry Christmas if that suits you better Or Happy Hannakuh Or Happy Yule… If I’m leaving anyone out please forgive me.  I’ve read that just about all religions have a celebration around now, and I’m not aware of all of them. But speaking of the holidays, and why I’ve gotten sidetracked: Last year, at…

  • After Not So Careful Consideration

    I’m going to work again on the Rainbow.  I realize, that for one thing, I made it look as if someone took DuPont house paint, and painted the rainbow on the sky.  It’s not luminous.  And for that, it will take careful, detailed work.  In other words, I’ve got to get back to being big.…