Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • A Rose by Any Other Name

    A Rose by Any Other Name

    Still looks good in a picture with a cat.   Okay, enough about cats.  Do I hear a collective sigh of relief? I’ve been working on Rose Garden.  I was working on the first version while tired and sick, and it came out awful. Put it away to look at later, maybe it would look…

  • Hit the Road, Rox…..

    Hit the Road, Rox…..

      I’m really looking forward to Spring. I probably said that last year, and the year before…..but it bears repeating.  C’mon Spring. I thought about it and I miss doing art fairs.  I managed to score a white tent on Ebay, and as time goes on find creatively inexpensive display items. i finally found a…

  • 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”…

  • 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…