Roxanne Baldwin's Artsy Blog

  • I’m Hiding Something….

    I like to hide things in my artwork.  Just about everyone has seen the flowers in this one:   But did you know there’s a cat in this one? Yes, it’s a very abstract cat. I wanted to put a cat in a window in this, but decided it would take away from the subject…

  • Talk About the Cat from New York City

    As I look at this drawing I’ve done of our rescue, Pumpkin, I realize it’s also part a goodbye piece (and peace) to New York City.   I won’t say goodbye for good, because one thing I’ve learned in life, is you never know what the future will bring. Back in the 1980’s, as a…

  • I Didn’t Really Feel Like Doing Any Art, Yesterday.

    One thing I find about doing art, is that you have to keep it up.  In some respects, it’s like exercise or meditation, if you slack off a day, you’re likely to slack off the next day…and then, before you know it, you’ve fallen back into the life of a slug sitting endlessly at your…

  • I’ve Got a Song Going Through My Head…

    It’s this one: The Boy From New York City, The Ad Libs I’m not really showing my age…this was a Golden Oldie on the radio already, when I was in my tender tween years. But the reason it’s going through my head, is my own damn fault.  Like so many cat owners, I get all…

  • 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.…

  • $$$$$ Changes Everything $$$$$$

    While I was unwinding from my day job, I called a good friend  In the course of conversation, she asked if I had any Christmas cards for sale.  Then it dawned on me, if I play my cards right, I could be making $$$$ with my artwork for Christmas, instead of slaving in a store…

  • A Stroll in the Old Neighborhood…

    Here I am, being nostalgic again. As we were packing the car with a load of *stuff* to take to the new place, I saw my landlord’s chair, against the stone wall. He’s had it there all the years we lived there, probably many years before, and now…. It got me thinking of how the…

  • Good-bye, New York

    Well, I’m settled into my own place in Connecticut, now.  It occurs to me, that this is the time of year, I’d get my view of the skyline back, because the leaves would fall off the sycamore.  So, a revisit to that view.

  • My Kind of Surrealism

    Okay, it’s after a rainstorm on a late afternoon in summer.  All the traffic lights are green as far as the eye can see. Enough symbolism?  Too obvious maybe? I’m not fond of making the viewer work too hard.  I feel it’s the artist’s job to be understandable.  If you want something obscure, try real…