Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • I guess this is what I’m doing these days

    I guess this is what I’m doing these days

    Sometimes, I surprise myself.  Sometimes, I’m surprised that I surprise myself.  I thought the line of drawing styles went neatly from A to B to C, and so forth.  I’m wrong. I did a drawing of a sky.  I thought it would turn out like this: Much to my surprise, it didn’t.  Am I using…

  • Having my Cake

    Having my Cake

    So, here are the most recent little drawings:     You know what I’m thinking……….Just how many small pictures do I need to do a  show?  I already have plenty.  Doing them is definitely disappointing too.   I can’t sink my teeth in them as I can with the large drawing. It’s like going into Costco,…

  • Let’s Be Realistic

    Let’s Be Realistic

    So, I’ve been diddling and doodling around with these drawings, so far, try to get the perfect balance of realistic drawing and fanciful design. I redid 101.  Having done the one that was mostly a half-hearted try at a good realism, I decided to have a little fun instead.   Here’s the redo, of 101. These…

  • Cosine of a Learning Curve

    Cosine of a Learning Curve

    I actually liked math, except for trigonometry.  So, forgive if I use the terms wrong. So, here’s the latest: It’s not perfect, but I’m reminding myself…..I’m learning.  The secret was in the details of the larger pieces.  That’s hard to do so small.  I did this piece, as a sketch….. To work out this: I…

  • Turning Back Time

    Turning Back Time

    I was wondering,  thinking about the learning curve I’m facing, whether it would be best to keep making versions until I got one that I liked.  That, is, after all, the way I learned to handle colored pencils in the beginning…….I’d just go over them and over them, until I  was so frustrated, I nearly…

  • The Saga of Pumpkin

    The Saga of Pumpkin

    I had a dream that we had two female kittens and I named them Thelma and Louise. No particular reason to tell  you this, but I enjoyed the dream. So, I’m going through making small drawings, the kind that I can sell at an impulse price. What would be a collection of my work without…

  • Redunnit

    Redunnit

    I volunteered at the Sono Art Festival in Norwalk, CT,  yesterday. I worked hard,but I had a lot of fun!  The artists were superb, and I made great friends, even if it was just for a few hours.  A very well run show and I hope to exhibit in it sometime in the future. But…

  • Out to Pasture

    Out to Pasture

    I’ve finished the classic car (sounds so much better than old carr) drawing.  You can see a detail above the title. Here it is in its entirety. It makes me think of what I’d like to do before, I’m too much of a Classic Woman, and go out to pasture myself. My dream is to…

  • Drive!

    Drive!

    I was sitting with an elderly friend at the bus stop.  He looked around mentioned, “People used to drive around in boxes, like the model T.  Then the cars had curves, and now, people are driving in boxes again”. As I watched the SUVs going by……I had to agree with him. But back to drawing…