in the dinosaur age

©bobbi plentovich "my elephant" 2010 collage -my recycled artwork, charcoal, on paper 22" x 28"

         good evening campers!!!  did you ever wonder at the beauty that can appear in the most unlikely things.... i guess that's called smelling the roses....which can be intoxicating and painful...depending on whether or not there was a bee in the rose and you just inhaled a not very happy bee who is now trying to exit your nose with the most amount of damage it can muster inside your nose.........muster...a very unused word now a days.....well if you were that bee would you want to be sucked up into someones nose....not even sure i want a visual on that perspective, even though a young child will gladly share that info with you by digging around and proudly showing you their finger now encased in .....well.....you can use your imagination on that one............but anyway, i was coming through richmond in the early morning hours with a cloudless sky and the sun was just rising and just seeing the way the sun hits the buildings and the reflections that were made and the negative space......well anyway it was really beautiful........now i'm not an architectural artist....not really into hard lines...i'm more of a nature artist...fluid lines, blended colours, etc.....but sometimes you can take the architectural and blend it with nature......buildings can become a little warped, the way the sun hits the glass can be very colourful and flow down the building...or up....you might be standing on your head.............lets say i was inspired..."i was inspired!!" (major sound effects).....problem was i was driving and i needed to take pictures and well taking pictures while you are driving is probably worse than texting and driving.....so it's in my head right now...
    and before there was texting.......i know alot of you right now have either passed out at the thought or are saying..."what?, no texting?...was this like in the dinosaur age???...has the world gone mad????"   yeah...no it was probably about 10 years ago....or something like that......but there was that time when you talked back and forth to people....instant message....i was trying to remember what it was called...ha ha.....well my kids would write something to me, and by the time i read it and answered they had already asked me 2 more questions....then i was trying to back up on what i just wrote to answer the last question and then by that time 4 more questions had been asked and i'm trying to answer the 5th question cause it kind of pertained to the 3rd question if i remember right, then they would ask me 5 more questions and at this point i can't even remember who i was talking to in the first place........but i think they did it on purpose cause shortly after i was trying to respond to the 7th question, they would stroll through the house and ask if they could do this or that or buy this or that, or go here or there and i was so confused i would mumble, "sure whatever", while trying to answer these questions which didn't matter, cause they weren't even on the phone anymore...............
              so as you can imagine i do not text and drive...so definitely no photographing and driving...... i can't even text when i'm not driving.....yeah, my kids showed me how to use the voice thing on the text message thing....i wonder if this is another one of their little games....hmmm....those are technical terms for phone stuff by the way....but just in case you try it, make sure you read what you just said, cause what is texted is not what you say .....just saying.....found that out when my kids texted me back saying "mom that's not appropriate"
      anyway.... i have been researching artwork that has sold nearby.....i have been doing alot of math.......which has taken me a long time.......trying to figure out if my prices are around the middle of the road........and i believe i have come to a decision....yeah!!!....well at least at the moment ..............of course that doesn't even begin to put prices on prints.....that's a whole nother ball game of fun filled math......plus keep painting, cause i gotta have more artwork to finally put up for sale...and oh yeah, work the 30 hour a week part time job i have too...............i'm really not a huge slacker, in case you were wondering..."why is it taking her so long to figure this out?"............and then add in life in general..............eventually i will get this all figured out.................but hold up a minute.... it's not the finish line we are after, well it partially is....but it's the journey that's so amazing......the journey that lets you notice things on the way to the finish line........the journey that lets you inhale bees up your nose and see fantastic paintings from sunrises on buildings....which means, i still need some photographs of what i was seeing,  which means, i guess i'll have to get up early and have someone drive me around so i can get the pictures i need.......which means, maybe my kids can do that.....wait, did they go somewhere? 

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©bobbi plentovich "in the dinosaur age" 2019 watercolour on paper 81/2" x 11"