Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • It’s Been a Long Time

    Since I drew a picture of a cat.  I call myself a cat lover?  Ha!  When I’ve neglected to draw one in over a year? So, I’ve done one.  I’m just not sure of it….it’s different.  So, I’m holding onto it for a review in the morning.  Don’t know if I like or not, because…it’s…

  • Wasting No Time

    I said I was eager to get back to the rainbow drawing.  As soon as I was finished with the pet portrait, I got right back on it. It looks, still, quite a bit like the smaller version, but I drew the rainbow in with a lot of white space, a la impressionism, to give…

  • After Not So Careful Consideration

    I’m going to work again on the Rainbow.  I realize, that for one thing, I made it look as if someone took DuPont house paint, and painted the rainbow on the sky.  It’s not luminous.  And for that, it will take careful, detailed work.  In other words, I’ve got to get back to being big.…

  • I’m Not Really Sure About This

    Well, actually, at the moment..there are a lot of things I’m not sure about.  However, in this case, I mean the drawing. One thing I do like, that I didn’t even plan, is that I put a staircase going up to the rainbow, in the foreground.  Seriously, I didn’t even notice, while I was wildly…

  • Remember Pumpkin? Throwback Thursday

    I can’t share with you what I am working on right now, so, I’m puttering around. We’ve got a cold, wintry mix in Danbury.  So, good news..we managed to recapture our kitty Pumpkin.  As you may recall, we captured him last December, from our former home in New York City.  This past spring, however, the call of…

  • I Miss New York! Well, Not Exactly….

    I actually miss Manhattan.  Unfortunately, there was no magic way to teleport from Queens to Manhattan, and vice versa, so I was stuck, along with millions of others…with the subway.  I’ve seen some beautiful artwork romanticizing the subway, but it’s not a romantic memory to me. But yes, I do miss Manhattan.  It’s the part…

  • Going Gold

    It’s getting close to Labor Day.  Already, the trees around here are showing some touches of orange and gold.  I’m looking forward to cooler weather, and the autumn colors.  Yes, even I get tired of summer. The last few drawing I’ve done have been green.  I’m getting a little bored, and want to shake it…

  • Snow Days

    I, like most residents of the East Coast, got socked in by the snow.  Darkness or low barometer, I don’t know, but I had little or no energy.  I did not much of anything, either artwise or housework wise. I decided to do little OSWOA, or Other Small Works of Art, since I am running…

  • Still Life Does Not Mean Dead Life..

    Whenever I’ve gone to an art show, I’ve always found the obligatory displays of painting and fruit to be pretty boring.  Yes, I realize there’s a matter of technique, but I’ve always thought of such things as elementary lessons in drawing and painting, an exercise, until you are skilled enough to do more ambitious subject…