Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • I Don’t Like It

    I Don’t Like It

    Phooey!  Dammit, damn, damn  and damn, again! I really don’t like the way this turned out. It was supposed to be carefree…..but to me, it looks sloppy and lazy.  The piece of fecal matter I mentioned before.  I really had wanted it to come out like this: This: Or even this!   Here I’ve done…

  • I Make Good on My Promises

    I Make Good on My Promises

    I finished the rose garden, but I plan on giving it a better name.  My thought is it’s either a  piece of genius, or a piece of fecal matter.  My good friend assures me that it is neither, but she really likes it. So, here you go!  A drawing of a rose garden that my…

  • I Promise You a Rose Garden

    I Promise You a Rose Garden

    Spoiler Alert!  It will look something like this, but hopefully (there’s that word again, hopefully) much better.    This, of course, is the preliminary sketch, Speaking of roses, I just sent a batch of note cards to a long lost friend.  This of course which I know I have posted before. The detail and control…

  • Questionable Quandary

    Questionable Quandary

    Hurray for spell check!  Otherwise, I would have misspelled quandary. Thank God for the blessings of our digital world.  Some of those blessings I’m not so fond of, however. But I digress.  This blog is about art, not the information age. So, now the quandary. My latest drawing came out very well, in my opinion. …

  • Found it!

    Found it!

    THIS was the picture of the Jungle Jim I was looking for! Actually drew it many, many many years ago.  As a more mature person with a more mature eye, I see a lot wrong with it.  Happily, I also see a lot good with it.  Maybe I’ll do a redo, when I have time. …

  • SICK AS A ????!!!!!

    SICK AS A ????!!!!!

    I spent the week after the festival, sick as a dog with a respiratory flu.  But let’s back it up a bit….sick as a dog? Where did that come from?  Why does a dog become a simile for illness?  Why such a desultory description of such a kind, benign, helpful creature?  I did a swift…

  • venus and mars are alright, tonight

    venus and mars are alright, tonight

    For those of you who caught my short-lived, remarkably self absorbed post the other day,  I apologize. But an update, the featured picture “A Western Tao”, is alright after all.  Much to everyone’s surprise, my artwork survived the flood waters. It’s a drawing of a man and a woman.  Every remember the book “Men Are…

  • I’ve had it with this

    I’ve had it with this

    What have I had it with? Not being able to do my large pieces.  They are most expressive to me, and what keeps me going. My hand is fine, now, and other than work space, I’m ready. My first piece is going to be a nocturne, of the yard I had when I was a…

  • Sometimes, the Sky is Purple

    Sometimes, the Sky is Purple

    A lesson in creativity. When I was about 7, we were doing artwork at school. It was a assignment, don’t remember what.  Exclusive of one little boy, the kids at my group of desks, were drawing the sky blue.  That one little boy, was energetically coloring the sky purple.   One of the gaggle of…