Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Happy Halloween, Samhain,….or October 31

    Sad to say, I have to take a bit of a break from drawing…I’m having trouble with my thumb due to a repetitive motion injury.  I can’t grasp a pencil very well….but fortunately, I can type one finger at a time.  I can’t let this day go by without some commemoration. So,  tomorrow is November…for…

  • Remember Pumpkin? Throwback Thursday

    I can’t share with you what I am working on right now, so, I’m puttering around. We’ve got a cold, wintry mix in Danbury.  So, good news..we managed to recapture our kitty Pumpkin.  As you may recall, we captured him last December, from our former home in New York City.  This past spring, however, the call of…

  • To the Rescue

    While I was searching through my artwork, deciding what to enter in the show…I came across a drawing I had done in the very late winter, in the March mud.  At the time, I wasn’t sure if I could even draw anything that remotely looked like a landscape.  I had put the drawing aside, thinking…

  • Going Gold

    It’s getting close to Labor Day.  Already, the trees around here are showing some touches of orange and gold.  I’m looking forward to cooler weather, and the autumn colors.  Yes, even I get tired of summer. The last few drawing I’ve done have been green.  I’m getting a little bored, and want to shake it…

  • Somehow, I Managed It

    As I was saying, I woke up to a an orderly mess of scribbles.  So, what did I do.  Sometimes, there are things in artwork that there are no words for. I did something here, I did something there, I added a little blue.  So, I pulled it off.  I captured the feeling a bright…

  • Friends Don’t Let Friends Draw Drunk..or Sleep Deprived

    There was, however, no friend around at the time, so sleep-deprived, I drew. And I drew some more.  I thought I’d completed the drawing I was working on.  However, in the bright morning light…my picture looked like a mess of scribbles.  Okay, somewhat orderly scribbles, but scribbles none the less. Fortunately, not all is lost,…

  • Zentangles…Or, Why Didn’t I Think of That?

    A while ago, I talked about coloring as a type of meditation.  Then I remembered, there’s another art based one..zentangles.  While we were browsing at Michael’s, there were books on it featured.  In case you never heard of it, this is the website:  Zentangle In short, it’s a type of doodling that incorporates mindfulness.  Sort…

  • By the Sea, By the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea…..

    Not exactly the sea, it was actually the Long Island Sound.  My friend and I went looking for rocks for Danbury Rocks and made a day of it.  First we went to the art supply store, where I spent too much money.  That’s easy,  I’m like a child in a candy store, there.  Then we…

  • An Idea that Didn’t Make the Cut

    Or if you’d rather..an idea that crashed and burned. It was to be entitled, “One Person’s Trash”.   I saw it sitting, discarded, by the side of the road.  I found it to be cute and interesting. Obviously, someone”s daughter outgrew it.  So far, so good. But then I started thinking about that little girl,…