Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • 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…

  • Downloading……Please Wait…….

    This is the finish of ‘White Tree’.  True, not a name brimming with pizzazz and originality, but it is true.  It’s also a winter themed drawing, that may end up as a Christmas card, next year, with a more imaginative title at that time.   And so, now what’s next? Honestly, there are so many…

  • December’s Over…so is 2014

    A good way to start the New Year is to finish what you start, and no, I don’t mean the bottle of vodka.  I finished “Making Peace with December”, this morning.   Here ’tis. So, one more month of the dreaded winter, gone.   Happy New Year, everyone.  May your 2015 be awesome, fabulous, fantastic…and…

  • It’s about the process, not the product…….or something like that

    So, here’s the sketch…another with the theme of making peace with winter.  I finally did the skeleton of the sycamore’s pale branches against an bright blue sky.  Voila (sorry, I’m working for a French company, it sneaks into my vocabulary now and then). So, now the promised topic……… Every so often, art work is done…

  • Down and Dirty

    Time to get down and dirty, back to the nitty-gritty, and other last generation cliches…. Wasn’t my art supposed to be about healing? As I rush around producing merchandise for shows, and feel the angst of the approach of another Christmas Rush in retail…. Something stopped me, and told me to get back to my…