Taking a side street to post something slightly different today. Not entirely unrelated to jewelry, but also not jewelry at the same time.
Introducing the amazing artist AngieCrabtree.
An extraordinary oil canvas painter in her own right, she captures the very essence of the shiny things I am so very captivated by; that’s right, she paints diamonds.
Her website states:
Angie Crabtree’s work examines luxury, materialism, and humanity’s unique relationship with the commodification of nature.
My response : you are damn right she does.
I stumbled upon Angie Crabtree on instagram while scrolling through my feed. Tapped to view more, promptly followed her and the rest is history. Her work never ceases to amaze me.
Her paintings speak for themselves with a clear display of attention to detail and focus on all the things.
Upon discovery of Angie Crabtree and the idea of gemstone painters, I did a little bit of research. It turns out, there aren’t that many out there. There’s about a handful of gemstone painters out there and in my opinion Angie is the best.
No other gemstone painter that I have researched gets to that certain level of detail in painting. No other painter gets it looking that real. Like you can almost see and touch the gem as a real 3D (albeit 5ft tall) gem right in front of your face.
Bonus points as she sells phone cases of her paintings!
(sadly they are currently all SOLD OUT as of Dec 2019)
On another note, I certainly did not realize how many colors can go into painting a colorless diamond (her swatches include pinks, reds, and greens etc.)
View link below for a small video of the artist herself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upmtr8MhwGg
(Ignore the brand/branding featured and plastered in the vid)
Below is a link to a few other gem stone artists out there.
https://www.katerinaperez.com/articles/instagram-the-best-accounts-of-artists-who-paint-gemstones
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Bleed
By: Hot Chelle Rae
A simple yet intriguing jeweler is 
Shine & Starfire 