Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • What is Paradise?

    Darned if I know…. It’s just in this environment, wondering what I can draw that is upbeat and inspiring to people, I come back to my old idea of Paradise. It’s just that I don’t work well from imagination alone.  I need some hard copy to ground me, to elaborate on, and interpret.  Sometimes, I…

  • Come on in, the Water’s Fine!

    Sometimes, without a real plan, you just have to jump into a drawing.  I took a photo, since I’ve been lost for an idea, and planned to draw it.  I made a pretty sketchy sketch, giving little insight to me on how to %(@@#ing handle the large drawing. So after much deliberation, I decided not…

  • The Worst of 2016

    Yes, you read that right.  I already have a candidate for my worst art of the year.  I guess I’m still not feeling the greatest, and my judgment is off, but I really bombed hard on this one:   I meant to exaggerate the colors in this slightly, but went clearly overboard.  It came out…

  • For an Encore….Presenting, MUD!

    The gathering I went to, and snapped the mud picture, was in a beautiful reserve in Kansas.  It was easy to think of spirits and sprites inhabiting the landscape.  Nature spirits?  I believe they’re Dryads, I may be wrong.  Anyway, that was my association, back there on that day in very early fall.  So, in…

  • Presenting: MUD!

    I hope all of you had a wonderful holiday, whichever you celebrate. I’m sending good thoughts for everyone for a wonderful 2016.  I’ll be presenting my worst of the year,soon, and it may include THIS: That’s mud alright, in it’s basic boring form.  When I took the photo, I was intrigued by the sculptural quality…

  • Quoth the Raven, “You’re Giving Me a Bad Rap”.

    One thing about Danbury…there’s lots of crows.  It kind of freaked me out at first, I usually associate them with death.  I also tend to, when living in NYC, associate crows as one of the only birds that would be around in the winter, to pick at garbage.  It’s not a compelling subject matter. Once…

  • Wishing You Joy…and a Couple of Blasts from the Past.

    I know I must sound like a broken record, referring to healing art.  Simply put, when a person is down and miserable, I want to supply an antidote.  My work is unabashedly feel-good, joyous and happy.  Making it brings me out of a chronic depression….I hope viewing it makes you happier, too. So, be it.…

  • Every Rainbow Starts With a Storm…or a Sketch as the Case My Be

    So, her’e the rough sketch…and rough it is.  It’s painfully lacking in interesting details, but then, that’s what sketches are for. In the past, I would jump in full-sized, with no prior sketch, and waste mucho dollars on paper, doing version after version. I now eliminate problems from having done the sketch…and since the paper…

  • Shake it up!

    A lot has changed since I posted last, in my personal life. First of all, Hannako has left us.  We nursed her to the end, and she went peacefully. Also, I was laid off from my day job.  This seemed like a good time to make a break, move back to Connecticut by myself (with…