' money money money money....money.....the necessary evil......aaarrrrggghhhh......................
so ive been working on how to price originals and prints.....while normally i would think what could i afford?..but i guess if you are in business for yourself you have to think of other things besides what would i pay for a painting?!.....so that's where my fabulous husband who gets the finance part of business comes in....he can watch shark tank and immediately say what stuff is worth and why they priced it the price they priced it at, etc.................what i get when i watch shark tank is.....wow thats a really groovy colour........i really try to get money...well not "get" money ha ha, but get the concept of money....which i do not get.................my husband tries to help me understand it...shiny object....he gives me other ways of looking at things....squirrel....he would draw up charts and graphs if it would help....did a post it just fall......the tv is not on...i'm a tv zombie... i'm focused right on him....and beside him....and above him....and behind him.....but nothing......i feel that God made me with a funnel and slide in my brain.......some stuff funnels in...colours, creative-ness, shiny objects, imagination.....and other stuff slides right on out.....it's a really fast slide too....one that has super slick sliding ability (wow say that 3 x's fast)........so what goes sliding out is anything to do with numbers.....and letters imitating numbers when i was in high school i had an algebra teacher....i know , you're thinking "what, just say no"......if i could of i would of.......but anyway...for me to graduate i had to pass algebra 1, yeah back in the day you didn't need a billion different "ometries" to graduate....or i'd probably still be there.......well i don't know about you, but how do i even make algebra work in my real life???!!!....so anyway i badgered that poor teacher...who was sooooo smart he couldn't explain it down to my level which was below C level...(ha ha i made a funny)....anyway......about everything i didn't understand....which was everything in algebra 1..... why C = Z or why ABC <KLJ...and on and on and on, blah blah blah...............he seemed to lose hair as the year went on.... and he developed a very bad habit of biting his nails to the quick, and would incessantly bang his head against the desk when i came in the room..........i believe he gave me a D- and that was with a major curve just to get me out of his class.............i hear he lives on a deserted island in the arctic and rambles on about squirrels......curious man.... uuuggghhh we're back to money again.....yes i'm prostrate on the floor, typing with one hand.............................i'm gonna go paint....i'll be right back................and you can be left front....ha ha...that never gets old
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do you ever feel kinda overwhelmed and can't seem to do anything even though you have a billion things you could do which would mean you have things to do but the overwhelming-ness of what your not doing overwhelms you?
exactly...welcome to my moment in time... so for your viewing pleasure, and since school starts soon, i give you some of my pieces on buses, while i wrestle with overwhelming-ness.....be groovy! good morning campers and welcome to the 5th post....can you believe it!!! i have been consistent for 5 whole weeks....absolutely amazing....and refreshing! i have learned so much already...i'm pretty proud of myself....go self!!! yea!!! i'm kinda doing a pep rally for myself right now....well i used to be my high school's mascot ...."we are the vikings!".... so i have a little training in boosting spirit and cheering people on....let me tell you the training for being a mascot was so rigorous...i believe it consisted of putting on a costume my mom made for me and cheering people on....brutal i'm telling ya......i think i was mascot just 1 year, basketball season....instead of playing drums in the pep band....yeah i was a total band geek....i felt like we didn't have a mascot and needed one...who dosen't , right?!....i don't know who said "sure go ahead and be our mascot"....but either they were highly congratulated or they got fired shortly after that........but anyway i went out with the cheerleaders and did my viking thing....ya know ransack and pillage....or in my case cheer everyone on like crazy....same thing right?! so now my next big goal in learning how to market and remake myself.....well not really remake myself....maybe reinvent my way to do art....no...maybe....oh something like that.....soooo...i have to figure out how to sell my artwork online....could be interesting!!!
oh my gosh, i just figured out how to put a copyright symbol on my pictures......yeah!!!!! i was trying to put the symbol on my pictures but couldn't figure out how to get the circle around the c....sometimes it takes me a minute or a week to figure stuff out.....so if you go online and ask .."how do i make a copyright symbol on my computer"...you get the answer........yes and while "everything is true on the internet"....that was sarcasm......this actually did work!!!.....so you hold down the Alt key and then using the numeric key pad.. (the one to the right of the alt key...for dyslexic people that's the other right...there you go!) ...so you type in 0169.....what???!!! ....isn't that crazy...who knew.....well once again, probably alot of people....little conquests make me so happy! ....and yeah that's another post-it on my wall....and yeah i had to look up conquests as a synonym of accomplishments, it seemed to fit my journey better...ya know "conquering the computer" (in case you didn't realize that last quote came with sound effects, try it again and imagine a very deep voice with maybe an echo)...... (see what i mean) ya know if an english teacher is reading this right now, they are probably cringing at my fabulous grammar and punctuation the other thing i'm not sure of , is when i am saving anything i do, (talking computer on the weebly site)....my screen pops up " publishing", which kinda means its going live...which means yall can see it i believe..........so since i don't know how that's being received by the computer world, could be there are notices being sent out saying..."hey this site has just been published" and again and again....hopefully that's not happening....or maybe it's just another fabulous reminder to read or look at my latest update...again and again in a span of 5 min.........isn't this such an exciting journey we are taking together!!! another conquest is that my picture on the "egg tanks" post did stay where i wanted it to!!! yeah!!! and for this post i figured out how to add text boxes and image boxes instead of trying to force my text to stay where i wanted it to.... ok small background on that picture of egg tanks so i can get yall up to speed on where my brain is....it's in my head...ha ha....anyway, when i write this post i have this blank area in front of me.....no that's not my brain....well maybe sometimes.......anyway, i have to drag over a text box so i can write something....then i have to do the same for an image, i drag over the image box and then i can add an image....the problem is when you are adding an image or text box to your blank area and hovering over the area to place the box, the blank area goes kinda gray (could be my brain...gray matter..ha ha so funny, well to me anyway).......... so i wasn't sure if when i drag over a box, if it would mess up what i had already written...yes i know, i wrote first and tried to fit boxes in later......yeah i do things backwards all the time......why read directions when you can just struggle for hours trying to figure stuff out...right??!!...again "what is this box you speak of?"..... so last week i added an image box in the middle of my text box...and for the next hour or so tried to chase around the image to get it where i wanted it to go and stay......like i'd put it between 2 sentences and it would jump to another 2 sentences...or better yet and my personal favourite...in the middle of a sentence.....it was a mess.......so this time i played around with it before writing or adding pictures......who said i can't learn?! in trying to learn how to get my artwork out there, i figured out a couple of things...first is this has to become a habit...(i know alot of you are like "really, you just now figured that out").......i know.....but anyway, i have to spend some time every day on the computer doing stuff...like uploading (is that the right direction?) my pictures, writing posts for this blog, reading info on how to market myself and my artwork..etc, etc, etc...................and second thing is, i have to give myself a time limit, cause i am serious... well not usually...but you can spend hours on the computer doing stuff......so while i know those are 2 vague , but brilliant ideas for myself...the light bulbs that are going off here, so bright, and very disco-ish....is that a word?...anyway its a start and gives me a direction to head in...ok if i have to go to the beach i will....well maybe not that direction...or maybe???!!! the other brilliant realisation i had was that painting for me needs to be a habit also...yeah i can paint when i'm "in the mood" but alot of times i'm just plain lazy, so waiting for "the mood" to set in....might be awhile......but if i make painting a habit, set a block of time, it keeps me focused, well as focused as i can be........ ya know i probably would have benefited from being in the military, the discipline, the orderliness......now the military might not have benefited from me being there....i mean how many colours can you paint a tank?! it could be painted to look like a forest, an egg, a large rhino, the possibilities are endless.......and on top of that...how bout shooting with a camera??!! man, the places you could go to get the shot are endless!!!! we all go about how we run our lives so differently....some are organized, some are grounded, some have a hard time keeping the train on the tracks...squirrel........it's like when my older sister was born, my parents molded her and coaxed her willingly into this box of their vision of great accomplishments (she later became a very successful person, but growing up she was quite the thorn in my side) , then i came along...and i said "what is this box you talk of?".......their worlds were shattered.........when my brother was born, they were so broken he got away with ALOT of stuff...i'm just saying..... so the point i'm trying to make is..... while habits are a wonderful thing to get stuff done.....when you don't play by the "rules" of "the box" ...i'm doing air quotes when i write these...too funny.... for me, it's harder to stick with a routine and /or habit, ...i'm great at starting stuff, its the excitement, the music, the confetti...... but when the beach is calling you and your supposed to be painting... that follow through is kinda rough. but it really.... i think... in the marathon...a marathon is a long run...ha ha , will benefit you...or me. so lets see if i can keep these habits going and achieve some dreams!! be groovy! let's also see if the middle picture stays where i needed it to when i publish it. |
bobbi plentovichim bobbi from bobbis murals...muralist, artist, creative mess. writing a blog about the journey of a muralist/ artist and her quest for a place in the confetti coloured art world Archives
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