Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Every Rainbow Starts With a Storm…or a Sketch as the Case My Be

    So, her’e the rough sketch…and rough it is.  It’s painfully lacking in interesting details, but then, that’s what sketches are for. In the past, I would jump in full-sized, with no prior sketch, and waste mucho dollars on paper, doing version after version. I now eliminate problems from having done the sketch…and since the paper…

  • As I was saying, “What the heck was I saying?”

    As I recall, I was either calling this drawing, “Embracing My Inner Kitten” or “Portrait of the Artist as a Kitten”.  Anyway, it is a drawing of a kitten.  In a window.  Here’s a work in progress:   It seems as if I was doing this back in the dark ages of my soul.  Okay,…

  • Don’t Call ME and old dog

    Okay, I confess.  I’m not the most tech savvy person there is.  There was a time a long time ago, when I was ahead of the curve.  Now, I’m panting, huffing puffing, trying to keep up with the pack. Smartphones are a blessing and a curse. Having moved out of my old abode, the camera…

  • All Good Things

    Part of what has been going on is that I ended my relationship of 23 years.  My life has been in a bit of a disarray, so I haven’t gotten around to doing any artwork for a while.  So,  I thought, for those of you who haven’t seen them, some artwork dealing with relationships: The…

  • A Sad, Personal Note

    I haven’t posted for a while, and that’s because my cat and favorite model, Hannako, won’t be with us much longer.  My partner and I have turned our bedroom into a kitty hospice.  Of course, Hannako is a 13 year-old now, which is the average life span for an indoor cat. In case you aren’t…

  • Portrait of the Artist as a Kitten…Stage 2

    Okay, progress….I have a title!  Once again, I identify with cats. As promised, this picture is going to be complex with a lot of preliminary work.  Here’s the next stage:   Some of you may recognize it as the front yard of my good friends’ home in Connecticut.  I was going to search through stock…

  • Riddle Me This:

    What do this kitten: This old drawing of mine:   This geranium:   And this scene I photographed while visiting friends have in common?   I’m going to weave them all into a very complex drawing..something that’s been on my mind since I was young…but was always a little timid to try.  So, there are…

  • My Kind of Surrealism

    Okay, it’s after a rainstorm on a late afternoon in summer.  All the traffic lights are green as far as the eye can see. Enough symbolism?  Too obvious maybe? I’m not fond of making the viewer work too hard.  I feel it’s the artist’s job to be understandable.  If you want something obscure, try real…

  • Ta Dah! And now for my next trick…

    “King of the Beasts” is completed.  For some reason, it seemed more interesting with parts of it left rough.  I’m not sure what, if anything, this drawing has to do with healing.  It makes people happy…maybe that’s enough. Anyway.