Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • One Day at a Time..and a Way Back Wednesday …

    So,I’m off from the day jobs today.  I’m working a lot of hours these day, but unfortunately, not on art.  Today was filled with errands, and an overdue visit with a friend.  Not much time, or for that matter, energy for drawing. However, a little bit at a time is better than nothing.  I remember…

  • The Grand Finale

    All my bitchin’ and moanin” has come to an end.  I’m finished with “Floral Overload”.  Honestly, I haven’t sweated so much over a drawing in years, but I like the result.  Months from now, it will be the result that means anything to me.     Now that I’ce done something really cheerful and lively,…

  • Will you stop complaining, for God’s sake, woman!

    Honestly, I was going to go into another rant on how bored I am drawing flowers.  Then I realized, you’re probably bored hearing me complain…so, peace.  As I go along, though, I find my flowers are becoming more scribbly. It still works, though. I usually don’t show my work this far along (rather give an…

  • A Flower a Day Keeps the Psychiatrist Away

    Yes, doing artwork is good therapy…..for me at least.  It gave me a reason to live, when depression was clouding my perceptions as to the quality of my life.  These days, I’ve been so busy, that it is literally a flower a day.  So, rather than ruin the surprise of the finish of “Floral Overload”…

  • Another Work in Progress, and Dead in the Water

    I’m happy with the way “Floral Overload” is coming along.  Really, truly, I am.  But, it is a LOT of work. I can get maybe one flower done a day.  One factor is that my job leaves me fatigued, and I don’t have much time..so, Day Job hunting again.  Oh, and I’m going to see…

  • These are the Breaks!

    I’ve gotten far enough with the full-sized version of “Floral Overload’, to show a work in progress….and here ’tis: The trick is, to make every individual part a complete composition, so every area could make a complete drawing.  Or so I’ve figured out, as I go along. I”m having great fun with this!   But…

  • Channeling Georgia O’Keefe….

    So, I finished the sketch of “Floral Overload”, and here it is: So, now I begin on the large version. For that, I realized I would have to do the flowers in careful, realistic detail.  For that, I’d need good flower pictures to study and draw. For any artist who may not be aware of…

  • I don’t know what the er, fudge, I’m doing

    Fudge is a nice euphemism, isn’t it?  Instead of harsh profanity, you get a remembrance of chocolate delight, maybe days in the kitchen as a child, helping with the stirring of candy, sun shining through the curtains….I went off on a tangent I guess. Picasso (at least I think it was Picasso), said “Inspiration can…

  • Pocket Paradise, 5×7 sketch

    I’ve been busy at work! Here’s the small version of “Pocket Paradise”, and I am pleased with it. My mouth is watering to start on the large version. But today, I have a date to meet an old high school friend, someone I haven’t seen in 40 (yes, count them, 40) years.