Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Come Bobbing Along, Already!

    Come Bobbing Along, Already!

    I have a friend who visits from Thailand every couple of years.   He’ll be here in March, and I was starting to make plans……………and he said, “Well that’s two months away”.   I really thought it was right around the corner.  Thanks for nothing, James! As I said last post, I was going to work on…

  • Do it again, again

    Do it again, again

    Okay,  I really should give it some time  before I post a drawing I’ve finished.  There’s something about posting it, for all, the world to see, to show off my mistakes.  Ooops. So, as I  looked at “Winter Horse Farm”, I realized, once again, it was too stark and uninteresting.  So, this is what it…

  • Making Peace with Winter

    Making Peace with Winter

    Hello folks!   I’ve mentioned before about my seasonal depression, and guess what!  It’s nearly winter again.  I did a series of drawings one year, making peace with each month. For instance, this was “Making Peace with November”. And this was “Making Peace with December” I believe this one was “Making Peace with January”, but as…

  • 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…