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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ImTheAlpha 30
I hate the sloppy people in art classes, or those who fiddle with the stuff that's not theirs. The stuff people make in class gets graded, so others shouldn't be messing with it. several of my clay sculpture pieces, a few that I worked on for several weeks, have been shattered, glued together and rendered unusable because someone put them together touching during glaze fire, ruined by people grabbing it with their filthy hands covered in clay or glaze and ruining my texturing or glazing, or just plain lost/stolen because of people messing with my work. You do NOT do anything "vigorously" when you could potentially ruin someone else's stuff, especially if the project is something they're getting graded on. Sorry for long comment, it's just so annoying to me.
rndmguythings 1
sorry to be that guy, but if it was that important than wouldn't she kind of be responsible for making sure it is covered and away from beginner art classes? If she was in an advanced class it means she has been painting for a while and should reasonably be expected to take care of her work. It is just common sense. To blame a beginner who messed up is like taking a puppy to be put down 'cuz it whizzed on the carpet all of twice. to put it in context, if this post was from her perspective, would not people just be telling her it was her fault for not putting it away safely to begin with? straight up double standard yo'
Lancemallow 5
Why in the heck would you paint vigorously, you deserved it, definitely!!