Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Feelings, wowo wo

    Feelings, wowo wo

    It seems as if I’m feeling around with new ideas as to where my art should go. Honestly, I’m pretty lost here. Instead of doing artwork, I’ve been binging on Youtube. Ever hear of “Ask a Mortician”? Mostly there. Procrastination, is making me wait. I did do a drawing of a cat looking out a…

  • What to do if You’re Stranded in Space

    What to do if You’re Stranded in Space

    Near the Creative Black Hole, naturally. I’ve got a couple of strategies for getting through inspiration less time. One is, don’t forget your sense of humor…do something crazy and fun that you wouldn’t otherwise. And/or……go back to an old idea that you haven’t been able to quite get right. When I used to visit New…

  • The Creative Black Hole

    The Creative Black Hole

    I’m having trouble creating. I have nada ideas, right now. Not serious, at this point I know. Maybe I haven’t been getting enough sleep, maybe I’m a little stressed about getting together an interior design presentation, or maybe I’m trying to hard to lose weight and I’m depriving myself of necessary nutrition. Could be any…

  • Taking a second look

    Taking a second look

    So,it’s kind of like this…and I am sure that all of you go through this, no matter what you do…. Finding something that you discarded as totally, totally awful, then deciding it’s not so bad. As is the case with this. See,I hated the damn thing so much that I didn’t delicately trim it. Looking…

  • A Good Friend Will Never Ask,

    “Why are you taking pictures of mud?” At the gathering I went to last year in Kansas, my good friend didn’t ask me that when she saw me photographing this:   She did look at me quizzically however.  The reason?  To do a better drawing of mud, of course.  Black and white sketch below.  …