Today, as a respected artist, I was running a workshop with a bunch of rowdy college kids. I was in the middle of demonstrating a painting technique when I accidentally washed my paintbrush in my coffee instead of my paint water. They waited until I then drank from it to burst out in hysterics. 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 working on a painting and went to take a sip of my tea. Instead, I took a swig of paint water. 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, 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
Today, I finally finished my art project, which was worth 50% of my quarterly grade. I came in first period to give it to my professor. When she turned to look at it, her elbow hit her coffee and spilled it all over the canvas. I got 60%. She said I would have had a 100%, except for the giant coffee stain. FML
Today, I finished a painting I'd spent 3 weeks working on for an exhibition. When I came back from lunch, my cat was perched above it on my desk. He looked at me, then down at the painting, then jumped down onto it. He slipped and smeared the wet paint everywhere, ruining the whole thing. FML
Today, in an attempt to flirt with a cute guy in art class I barely know, I put on his sweater while he was in the bathroom. He came back just in time to see me spill white paint all over it. 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, while sitting on a bench drawing, some guy went up to me, yelled, “YOUR ART SUCKS” and flipped my sketchpad out of my hands. I’d been working on that piece for hours and now there’s a big black pencil streak on it. FML
Today, I put my paint brush into my cup of tea. FML
Today, I found out the hard way that you shouldn't try to open a can of paint with a screwdriver. The lid flew off, and my kitchen floor now looks like an abstract art painting, which I could probably call, "Various blue splodges on wood canvas." FML
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Wileypube 0
i'd have been right there with them.
tehhotness 0
YDI, there isn't a person in the world that wouldn't wait and watch that happen
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Comments (114)
Amkii 0
#39 - I agree.
RK5000 0
What would you have done?
Mr_Positive 3
Just get over this "respected artist" thing you commenters... Focus on what's important than something irrelevant. I think you'll be okay, OP, its not like you drank paint - the paint was dissolved in the entire coffee and you only drank a part of it so it should be fine :)
Kegokec 0
It's just paint....
marycjones 0
#26 = fail. Sure artists can accidentally wash their brushes in different cups, but how clueless do you have to be to not notice the difference between your coffee mug/starbucks cup/whatever from what ppl generally use as large metal cans or glass containers. Hope the paint wasn't oil, hahahaha.
babawaba 0
#26: "It's pretty clear that nobody here is a retard..." Fixt'
crystalballzzz 0
ignorant ***** thats horrible :(
autumnfrostfire 0
I'd feel bad for you if you hadn't referred to yourself as a "respected artist".
i_am_tiff_21 0
Eww. I hope you were only working with watercolor paint.
ffpoisongirl 0
I dunno if this is just my experience, but in my school the students aren't generally "rowdy" in class; we're paying thousands of dollars a year to learn, and yeah, we might talk a little, but generally we respect professors. I get the sneaking suspicion the OP exaggerated. And as for the "respected" bit, you know what they say - "Those who can, do; those who cannot, teach." Sounds to me like you can't be THAT well-respected. College students usually give professors the respect they deserve. We're not all stereotypical drunken frat and sorority idiots (not to say that all frat and sorority members are idiots).