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
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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 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, 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
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
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 started to paint the top of a piece of furniture. My husband had painted the sides a few months ago. I sanded/prepped. He went to buy the paint he had used. I was half done when I stepped back and saw that the colors didn't match. He forgot what he used, so he bought whatever, and "thought it would be OK." 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, 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 was painting cabinets for the children's area in my church. While painting, I dropped my brush and got black paint on a white part. I tried to wipe it off. Now there's a very visible smudge that looks like a penis. 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, while painting a wall, I handed a bucket of paint up to my friend who was standing on the top rung of a ladder. She said she felt dizzy, and came crashing down on me, along with the paint on my head. FML
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CassetteTapeHero 4
Last time I checked, that's why you don't "vigourously apply primer." ESPECIALLY around other peoples work. You were basically asking for an accident.
Japemead 0
YDI, and FHL. You shouldn't have been "vigorously" putting on primer to the point where you're spraying it everywhere. Learn how to not act like a jackass in the studio, and until you do, stay the hell away from other people's work.
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Mumblstiltskin 0
IDIOT! Why the hell would you use spray primer next to someone else's painting!? Have a little respect next time and maybe you won't think your life sucks so much. Maybe walk a few extra feet away or use paint-on primer. I hope the Advanced (mentally too I'm assuming) painter punched you in the throat. YDI!
totalbadass 0
If it's an acrylic painting, she can just paint over it, no big deal. If it's an oil painting depending on how much primer landed on it (just a few specks, as you put it), it's still fixable anyway. Oil paint takes a long time to dry. She'll either have to work it into the painting, try to cover it up, or use something like turpentine to get it off and redo that section, which would suck a lot. Either way, YDI.
perdix 31
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Tell her she's a Goth hack and nobody wants dark paintings anymore. You just helped her brighten up a trite piece of derivative cliche crap.
xHaniffax 0
omg please **** off with your ignorance just because OP used the word dark doesn't mean it's sinister, gothic or emo it just means the colours are dark and are key to the composition of the piece - which is now ruined because of the white specks.
perdix 31
I'm not ignorant. I am just assuming something that may or may not be true. What I was trying to do, for humorous effect, was to take the OP's mistake and make it seem like he tried to improve the painting. The ol' switcheroo. Don't get all pissy if you simply found it unfunny.
hebron77 0
That wasn't funny at all.
hebron77 0
That's about as funny as me saying "Go to Tartarus, you sick burning waste of organs, maybe the world will be better when you're gone."
T1A2Z3 35
Sorry perdix. You win some you loose some.
Intellectualist 0
If I was that person, you'd be dead.
Hermyoni 0
Well I don't see the problem. She should of moved her painting out of the way of others.
Captain_Jello 0
I ******* hate people like you. Have no regards for others personal property.
ravensunnyd 0
why does "there is no one to the right of her" have any thing to do whith it????
Akuser 0
The OP has no one to blame.
shootingstar8D 0
it's not like u did it on purpose
xxCFHxx 0
Yeah, if the OP'd apologize and be straight up about it, not waiting for her to find out, it'll be a lot better. It'll still suck, but less than being a pussy.
satanstoystore 0
another 'its the thought that counts' ? no, it isnt. what counts is respecting peoples property by being careful and not screwing it up. thats what really counts, not 'i didnt meant it.' that might work on mommy and daddy but not for the rest of the world.
shankzilla 0
ops a giant fuckwad