Today, I took my girlfriend to a beginners’ painting class. She and everyone else was able to produce a painting significantly better than mine, and I got laughed at for my lack of skill. I’ve been painting for twenty-five years. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was partnered up with a girl in my art class, since the teacher had asked us to take turns drawing portraits of each other. I went first and felt pretty proud of how the drawing turned out. I showed it to her and she said "That's OK. I'm not good at drawing either." FML
Today, I joined a beginners' painting class to finally try a new hobby. I was doing fine until I went to rinse my brush, dunked my entire hand into a cup of blue paint water, then spent the rest of class with one blue hand and a painting that looked like a potato in a storm. The instructor said it had “character,” which I assume was out of sympathy. FML
Today, my wife sold her first painting and was so proud of herself, until she found the buyer online and realized his YouTube page is full of videos where he paints over horrible art and turns it into good art. Her painting was on it, and yes, he visibly improved it and yes, my wife is raging at me. FML
Today, in art class, everybody was showing the paintings that we have been working on for weeks. Everyone was cheering and clapping. When mine came up, nobody clapped. FML
Today, I was vigorously putting primer on my canvas for a beginning painting class. I accidentally sprayed specks of primer on the very dark painting to the right of mine. The painter is in an advanced class. She's been working on this one all semester. There's no one to her right. FML
Today, I finished a big art project. It was a self-portrait done in acrylics. Proud of my piece, I showed my mom. After some thought her first comment was, "well, I'm either going to insult your art or your face." FML
Today, I was talking to an art critic at an exhibition. He told me that the artist had no talent and went on to tell me everything wrong with each painting. I'd painted them all. FML
Today, it's my girlfriend's birthday. I presented her with an oil painting of her that I'd been working on for over a month, and she started to cry. I thought it was because she liked it, until she asked if she really looks that ugly and disproportionate in real life. FML
Today, I took a pottery class to try out a new hobby. After an hour of work, I had somehow created something that looked vaguely like a bowl. The teacher walked by and asked what I was making. When I proudly said, "A bowl," she paused and replied, "Oh." FML
Today, I brought my best painting yet to college. I showed it off and everyone loved it. Or almost everyone. When we came back from lunch break, we found someone had sharpied the words "JIZZ BUTT" all over it. That painting took two weeks to finish. FML
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Chazzster 32
I think that says one of two things. Either it really is a case where beauty is subjective (would Picasso have done well there?) or doing something for a long time is no guarantee of skill... OP, I assume you paint because you enjoy doing it. Just continue doing so. A hobby is like that. What counts is how it makes you feel, not what others think. On the other hand, if you had aspirations of painting as a career, its probably time to look elsewhere.
kittycatkelss 29
this is actually fairly common. you’ve honed your skill to yourself and now when trying a new technique or following less complex instructions than you’re used to it’s like relearning the basics again. I’m in a lot of online creative groups and it happens so frequently
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Chazzster 32
I think that says one of two things. Either it really is a case where beauty is subjective (would Picasso have done well there?) or doing something for a long time is no guarantee of skill... OP, I assume you paint because you enjoy doing it. Just continue doing so. A hobby is like that. What counts is how it makes you feel, not what others think. On the other hand, if you had aspirations of painting as a career, its probably time to look elsewhere.
kittycatkelss 29
this is actually fairly common. you’ve honed your skill to yourself and now when trying a new technique or following less complex instructions than you’re used to it’s like relearning the basics again. I’m in a lot of online creative groups and it happens so frequently