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First Post of My Incessant Ramblings

7/29/2011

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Hello, world!

This is my first post of Robyn Cole Artworks blog.

First posts are always kind of weird, aren't they? They're always about things like: what do I want to say first. What is the impression I want YOU to have of ME. How can I write so wittily that you just cannot wait for the next RSS feed in your inbox saying there's a NEW post at RobynColeArtworks blog. How can I get you to like me!!!!

Oh, all these thoughts are rambling through my brain at the speed of light. Should I tell you my background, give you my credentials, defend the 3 square feet of artistic space God gave me? Should I just plunge into my deep thoughts on art? (There aren't any.)

So, instead, I'll stick to the simpler question: Why a blog named after me? Why not something cuter and more original? Like "Panama Painter" or "Boquete Bouncy Babe"?

I toyed with those ideas, trust me. The cutesy in me wanted to come out, big time. But the Marketer in me said "Use your name....SEO....use your name.....SEO....use your name....easier for people to find you......use your name.....it's the closest you'll get to seeing your name in lights on Broadway.....use your name.....SEO...."   and so on and so on."

So, Robyn Cole Artworks blog it is. And here's what I'll write about: anything I damn well please.

Ha! But I'll also write about all things I find interesting from a creative standpoint. I'm exploring a number of mediums: I sculpt with vintage and cast off jewelry, I paint with hot wax in a process known as ENCAUSTIC. I love to dabble in water colors, surface design, collage, assemblage and texturing, I'd love to do some art quilts.

So, my creative friends, basically wherever I go artistically is what shall appear on this blog.

If you want to know what it's like to be a middle aged Southern California housewife uprooted from there to move to a small town in Boquete, Panama, you can read all about it in my OTHER BLOG, over at Third World Wife. I write about the interesting things I see and experience in this no-longer-a-third-world country of Panama.

In addition, a web site called Second Act recently featured me in one of their stories. You can check it out here.

You have lots of homework already, kids. Get ready....there just might be a pop quiz.
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Sandy Comstock link
7/29/2011 01:12:14 pm

Hi Robyn, I love the encaustic (?) painting you did! It is beautiful. Maybe you could give us Boquete Artworks people a little class in how to do it. That would be so fun!
Great job on the studio, I am impressed! I like your 'go girl!!' attitude.
~Sandy Comstock
www.TobyandMaxJewelry.blogspot.com my little blog

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Rose Cowan
7/30/2011 12:04:32 am

I love your ramblings...and your artwork! I'm looking forward to more of both.
Rose

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Robyn Cole link
8/1/2011 11:28:55 pm

Thanks, ladies! I look forward to writing more, taking more pictures, and exposing the Boquete art world to encaustics. Stay tuned!

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Carol Talbert link
10/12/2011 04:29:14 pm

Robyn,
I love your humor!! It takes alot of things to be an artist and humor is one of them. I have enjoyed reading your blog and laughed alot. I am an artist that is blooming and becoming unleashed, humm is that how I describe myself. Well none the less I guess I am an artist interested in jewelry, stained glass and paper crafting. I hope there will be a time soon that I can meet you in person in Boquete. In the next year my husband and I will be moving there. Looking forward to reading much more of your musings..
Thanks for the laugh and the life you share.
Carol

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skull shot glass link
10/24/2012 11:32:59 am

Love your blog, it's just a lovely, happy place to spend hours and hours reading!!

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    I like to think of myself as a creative soul, living the dream in Panama. Truth be told, I'm just trying to negotiate life’s passages on this rock upon which we’ve landed. I would like to do that with as much dignity as possible and without wreckage, hurt feelings and tears. I can do that. At least until I get out of bed.

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