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
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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 finished painting my living room. I had to leave the house in a rush. When I got home, I found smears of paint all around and the carpet crusted with paint that had dried. My cat had rubbed up against the walls and tracked it around. FML
Today, it took me five hours to paint my deck, only to have it ruined by the neighbor's cat running all over the wet paint. FML
Today, I was finishing up my art project that was due the next day. I was really tired and fell asleep on my table. Three hours later, I woke up to find my project torn to bits. I went out and saw my cat vomiting out feathers and other materials I used for my project. FML
Today, I painted my daughter's bedroom. When I wasn't paying attention, the cat walked through the paint tray. There are now Barney purple paw prints all over the house. FML
Today, artwork that I had been working on for months was destroyed, leaving me almost in tears. The culprit? A lonely pigeon who'd got into the room and shat all over it. FML
Today, I was looking through an old box of personal artwork when I realised the entire box was damp. This was all my own art from the past 3 years, smudged and smelling of cat urine. I was supposed to showcase some of it in a competition winning gallery this month. FML
Today, after spending 5+ hours of my life painting a portrait of someone's cat for them, I finally finished it, perfect condition, no mistakes. I was supposed to be paid 300 bucks for it. Got 50 bucks because it was too "vibrant." FML
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 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, 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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thatkid00117 16
I guess you can still submit it as modern art
aguynamednick 20
what a catasstrophy
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LtBrenton 16
Needs more info for me to know whether or not this would be appropriate, but it seems to me it's still rescuable... I'd stick to your guns and exhibit it, tweak your statement and be honest about what happened. It is after all a perfect illustration of the inherent uncertainty in this world, and that even things you expect to be permanent can turn out quite ephemeral. Don't BS around it, just allow the incident to make you think about the connotations and metaphor surrounding the destruction of an artwork by an oblivious cat, then write about it. -- Your friendly neighborhood art student :P
caleb_ohs 8
Id be having some cat soup that night
benjamonny 1
Call it a catsbtract painting... .
Kerix_FML 10
You can eat the cat. If you're planning on killing it
liyodyh 7
Damn cats. You can't have anything nice if you own one. I would know
dragonrider1959 18
It's called "abstract"
Grenith 21
That sucks having to repaint, and dig a cat grave in the same day.
Parvati48 15
Your cat is a dick, sorry OP. :/
FoxHunt9119 19
Cats are evil...
kakakarotcake 17
Why did you leave it somewhere the cat could ruin it