Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • Calamity Roxy and the Color of My Dreams

    Still plugging away at Floral Overload, but I tellya it’s slow.  I’m working a lighter week at my day job now, so I do have more time…but remember how messy I am?  Well, it’s gotten to the point where I have to interrupt my (ahem) great art career, and shovel some of the clutter and…

  • As Monty Python would say…..

    Now for something completely different… I’m getting ready for “Pony Rides for a Purpose”, and so is a friend.  My good friend will be trying out a walk-around puppet stage.  And I give you three guesses as to who painted the scenery for it.    You only needed one?  Wow! So,  here it is.  The light…

  • Completely Illrelevant, but then again, maybe not….

    I’ll be working on the background of “Winged Foal”, and I expect it will take some time.  Rather than bore you with repetitive pictures of the progress, I thought I’d post something I’ve shown no one, until now. A few years back I was totally stuck.  My representational art was coming out less than awesome. …

  • What the Hell do you think this is????????????? Grand Central Station?

    Somewhere, in my childhood, a teacher chided us like that.   So indeed, Grand Central Station is usually filled with noisy crowds. I’m working from a photo I took when the station wasn’t that crowded…..a Saturday morning.   Grand Central Station is mostly marble and stone.   So, one tends to think in terms of grays, and whites,…

  • The Meaning of Life is Rain Puddles

    Okay, now that I’ve got your attention….. Here’s an update on “Tiger in the Jungle”. It’s coming out lower key than I intended, but I expect when I go over it with the blender, it will pop. Also, I’m at a very tedious point, the background. It would be good to listen to my iPod…

  • Taking it in small bites

    My intention in starting “Tiger in the Jungle’, was, as I did in “Pocket Paradise”, was to treat each leaf as a small meditation in itself. However, stress over money and unemployment does not facilitate a particularly Zen state of mind. So, I’m taking this very slowly. Otherwise, I’m going to end up with messy,…

  • Black Madonna…the finish

    If you’ve already done the hard work on a drawing, the rest goes fast. Plus, I was truly inspired doing this, so I spent more of my time on it. As I worked in it, I decided to use metallic pencil. That’s something I normally don’t do, because I always envisioned selling my work as…

  • Royalty….at last

    First a note about Scraggly Weed. As I was looking out my window, I noticed another artist was attracted to the plant on which my drawing is based. This time, a photographer, with a zoom lens, taking a close up of one of the fronds. Don’t know if he managed to capture a butterfly. Anyway,…

  • Soundview Park Festival

    Yesterday was the festival for which I neglected artwork, and housework for. I had a good time, but, no sales. I feel I might have been successful if I had done some small portraits of people for not too much money. It was a very child oriented event. Lot’s of face painting and arts and…