Exciting Announcement!

I'm excited to announce that Cerulean Jade has released their first single, which you can watch now on Youtube! It is also available right now on iTunes and cdBaby! Cerulean Jade is a brother sister music duo by two of my kids, Sarah and Steven. I am very excited to see what they produce next! 

Happy New Year Everyone!

Happy New Years everyone.  I'm really excited for 2012.  At the end of 2011 I took the plunge and opened an Etsy store with my kids Sarah and Steven, who are also artist.  I'm looking foreward to creating more jewelry and pieces of art!  My focus lately has been making jewelry, but I'm anxious to get back to painting.

Last October I finished a painting from a picture Sarah took in Wyoming, in the beautiful Grand Teton National Park.  It's a favorite of hers and she even used it once as her facebook profile picture. I do not plan on posting this painting on Etsy at this time, however, I have posted two paintings over the weekend on my Etsy store. I hope you check it out~

 

Until next time,

Robin

Excited to be back

Blogging is a still a new experience for me and I'm looking forward to sharing my creative adventures.

Lavender Mint Tea by Robin Angeline, 2010

Last summer my daughter and I went to the Lavender Festival in Mona Utah. There we discovered Real Lavender Ice cream, Lavender Sugar Cookies (Yum!) and the most amazing Lavender Lemonade which we have not been able to find since, to our dismay. But it opened up a taste for lavender in way I never thought possible. But to my pleasure I have discovered Lavender Mint Herbal Tea.

My passion is painting landscapes. I love the charm of the French countryside and Tuscany hills. Lavender Mint Tea is a painting I finished last fall inspired by our adventures to the Lavender Festival.  

I've recently made a trip to California to take hundreds of pictures with the plans to begin a new collection of paintings inspired by the coastlines, hillsides, and garden landscapes of Santa Barbara.

I am looking forward to beginning this new project and sharing the process as I go.

“Purple Light” from "Monet's Garden"

“Purple Light” These purple beads represent the warmer and richer tones of Monet's Garden.

The center piece is a Swarovski pearl surrounded by sterling silver. The high light of this bracelet is the Swarovski crystal, Crystal Passion, cyclamen opal.” It is a stunning color, but Swarovski has the best description; “combines glistening berry and fuchsia hues with a soft opalescence. A spectacular color-play of amethyst purple and baby pink shades accented with a flash of blue and yellow, creating a mesmerizing effect.” I agree, and that’s why it’s a fun bead. In this bracelet there are other beautiful crystals, rondelles and assortment of metal beads, including sterling silver. A favorite is a sterling silver heart and a fluer-de lis charm, and a rose magnet clasp. This bracelet is 8 inches in length.

“Monet’s Garden in Giverny” Painted unknown year

Claude Monet, “More than anything, I must have flowers, always, always.”

What draws me to this painting is the time of day. The colors are warmer, the purples are richer, and there are lovely reds in this painting. The light is exquisite and demonstrates the late time of day, when everything becomes more golden. I think it’s the most beautiful time of day.

Monet is truly a student of color and light. You see it not only by what he has said, but through his many paintings. He would paint the same places over and over again, painting in different times of the day, and different times of the seasons. It’s fun to see the comparisons.

“Song of the WaterLily” from "Monet's Collection"

“Song of the WaterLily” is a fun bracelet celebrating Monet’s inspiration, his vision of the water lily pond and his Japanese bridge and surrounding landscape that he was devoted to. His pleasure was designing and developing his spectacular garden and the joy in painting them. His quote, “I would like to paint as a bird sings,” truly demonstrates that, and to represent that I added a pretty little bird charm.

The center piece is whimsical chartreuse color with silver foil inside a glass grommet bead, with three crystals inlays. There are Swarovski crystal elements and an assortment of crystal and rondelles. There are two double sterling caps, sterling silver daisy spacers, delicate pewter caps. There are an assortment of metal beads with two charms, a little bird and a fleur-de-lis. Each of my bracelets has a magnet clasp, and in this bracelet it’s a lovely rose. This bracelet is 8 inches in length.

"The Water Lily Pond, Harmony in Green" painted 1899

Claude Monet: “I would like to paint as a bird sings.”

Monet’s Japanese Bridge and water Lily Pond is one of Monet’s most recognizable works, and you can see many different depictions of them. Monet said, “It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them. He also said, “They are beyond the strength of an old man like me, and yet I still want to succeed in rendering what I experience. I hope that something will come of all my efforts.” Indeed it did!

Here we are. My dear friend and I enjoying the view on another pretty bridge in the Paris area. It’s not Monet’s Japanese Bridge, but next time I would like to enjoy the view from Monet’s bridge.

“Fleurs Violet” from "Monet's Garden"

This bracelet, “Fleurs Violet,” inspired by “The Artist’s garden,” is a feast of purple flowers. Monet was known to design his garden the way he wanted to paint them. I wanted to use Swarovski‘s crystal in different purple hues, with a touch of soft green beads. I wanted this bracelet to be delicate with lovely details.

The center piece is a Czech Fire polished bead that gives that illusion that it glows. I find this bead fascinating and it’s definitely a favorite. This bead is violet, and in certain light it reflects blue, stunning. It is surrounded by beautiful sterling silver cap beads. Also there are delicate roses, tiny balls, and two different daisies in sterling silver beads. There are Swarovski crystals. Rondelles and other assortment of metal beads with a fluer-de lis charm, and a rose magnet clasp. This bracelet is 8 inches in length.

“The Artist’s Garden” Painted 1900

Claude Monet: "I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

Thank heaven for flowers. In this lovely painting it draws you in. Wouldn't it be wonderful to walk down that little path in what seems like a wilderness of flowers? Natural and uncultivated, heaven's blessing.

“Wild Poppies” from "Monet's Garden"

"Wild Poppies" Growing up in California I loved the wild Poppies found everywhere. The bright orange colored Poppies are full of life and energy for me, beautiful. 

The center piece is referred to as an opal fire color Swarovski bicone crystal bead, and this color is brilliant. Also included are Swarovski pearls. There are beautiful sterling silver caps, and sterling silver heart bead and spacer beads, along with an assortment of metal beads, rondelles, with fleur-de-lis charm with a fleurs magnet clasp. This bracelet is 8 inches in length.

Inspired by “The Poppy Field at Argenteuil,” Painted 1873.

Claude Monet: “Color is my day long obsession, joy and torment” 

Camille Monet, Claude Monet's
First wife. Painted 1875.

The painting "The Poppy Field at Argenteuil" is located at the Musee d’Orsay. I love the Victorian ladies and children, he so loved to paint his family and friends. Another joy I find in his work.

Monet believed he was obsessive about his painting, but I believe he was more passionate. That he had intense emotion about his work, well, perhaps his work did completely occupy his mind. It’s easy to see that he loved his family and his garden, as he often painted them. I have a feeling he would rather not like us to try and figure him out, only enjoy if not love his work. I can’t help it; he was such a fascinating man in his time, in any time.

When I was sixteen I went on a foreign study tour of several countries with only a layover in Paris. I promised I would return for a longer stay next time, and in the summer of 1980 I went to the University of Cannes, located in Cannes, France. I had studied several years of French in High School and College. Following my dream has brought me lifelong friendships, and the joy of learning about cultures, history and a passion for the arts.

Here is my profile picture full framed,  taken in 1987 at a friend’s home  in Paris France.

Taking a walk down a Paris street, and  stopping for a patisserie (pastry) of  course. That’s me in the door way.