Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • The Scraggly Weed

    The MS Bike Ride is turned over, so I can get a fresh look at it for final touches. Then, in the meantime….here’s a fable. The Scraggly Weed Away, on a very small street, in a very small neighborhood, in a very big city, there was a row of houses. In front of each house,…

  • Changing direction

    I didn’t work on the MS bicycle ride for a while. I started to add the background, and put in a weeping willow. It made the whole thing look kitschy and awful. I tried to erase it, but it was too firmly drawn, that I couldn’t do it. I got very discouraged. But then, the…

  • Back on Course

    Started the redo of the MS bike ride, and I’m pleased with it. To get the asphalt right, it took long tedious work. Thank God for the invention of the iPod, otherwise, sitting, making miniscule pencil strokes over and over would have made me start raving….well, raving. For those of you who are artists, just…

  • Denial is not a river in Egypt

    Finally had to admit it…the MS Bike Ride drawing was not going well. For one thing, it’s badly out of perspective, and the fellow far to the left is out of place and really badly drawn. So, though I hate to discard hours of hard work, I had to trash it. I’m sure I’ve learned…

  • Okay, eraser crumbs and all

    I tend to include diversity of people in my work. I guess that’s because I live in the most diverse county in the country, Queens, NY. That’s my world. So I was a little surprised when looking for copy for this drawing…all the bike riders I found were white! I discussed this with my contact,…

  • Stuck!

    Between stress on the paying job, and other distractions, I haven’t gotten around to work on the MS Bike Ride. Now that I’m looking at it, I realize I have a lot of two very hard things to draw….figures and bicycles, and realizing figures ON bicycles is doubly hard. For those of you who have…

  • Gotta begin somewhere

    I’m doing work on the MS bike ride drawing. I’ve done a very, very, rough sketch. I’ve sent it to my contact for his opinion. Here it is, remember, it’s very rough.

  • Bike Tour…first sketch

    When I decided to look for charity work, my first thought was to contact my friend’s husband. This man is very involved in all sorts of causes, but he is also a person living with MS. Our lives were also touched, when another man living with MS, took his own life to avoid the progression…

  • Connecticut Fantasy Finish

    As I was going to work yesterday, our landlord came bursting out the back door. He wanted to show us that there were berries falling all over our car, and to be careful. Then he pointed out a tree I hadn’t noticed before. A mulberry. Mulberries are found in Connecticut. There were two in my…