Today, my grandpa saw one of the paintings in the guest room at my house. "What the fuck?" he snorted, then said whoever painted it should "stick to their damn day job". I painted it. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my toddler proudly presented me a "beautiful drawing" he'd made... on my freshly painted living room wall. When I started to scold him, he said, "But I made it for YOU, Mommy!" Now I feel guilty for being mad at Picasso Jr, and having to paint over it. FML
Today, my friend showed me a creepy piece of artwork he'd drawn. I laughed and said that it would give me nightmares, meaning it as a compliment. Turns out, this one was in honor of his dead grandmother, who'd raised him. FML
Today, my grandpa came over to help paint our house, as we are renovating it. The only paint clothes he decided to wear were his underpants. The neighbours and builders found this quite amusing. FML
Today, my family was cleaning out our basement when I noticed an empty wall. I asked my grandma if I could put a picture up. She replied, "I don't want your ugly drawings on the wall". I wasn't talking about my drawings. 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 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, we had painters in the house. My 4 year-old grandson kept telling me, "Grandpa ate the painter's sandwich." While the painters were running an errand, my husband ate their sandwich, then left to go to work. I was left to explain/apologize to the painters that my husband ate their PB&J. 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, I proudly gave my grandma a picture I had drawn for her. She didn't seem thrilled with it, and afterwards the rest of my family seemed upset. Nobody could fathom why I drew grandma a picture of a graveyard for her 85th birthday. It was suppose to be a bridge. FML
Today, my roommate asked for my opinion of her new painting. The same painting I hand-painted for over ten hours. She apparently thought it was a gift. She won't give it back. FML
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chaseafterwind82 29
Neither, cum is an animal product. :-)
Miss_Chevious 37
To be fair, Vincent Van Gogh killed himself because he was discouraged, but now he's one of the greatest, don't worry OP keep up the paintings, you'll be famous one day
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chaseafterwind82 29
Neither, cum is an animal product. :-)
tarlax 11
Um no, it's a legume.
Miss_Chevious 37
To be fair, Vincent Van Gogh killed himself because he was discouraged, but now he's one of the greatest, don't worry OP keep up the paintings, you'll be famous one day
RebeccaRFT 18
But only after you die.
ourtneyc 14
that's not entirely accurate he did have a huge history of mental illness as well
RedPillSucks 33
gramps will be the first in line with posthumous adoration if OP got famous
Badkarma4u 17
Or one of the millions of other artists no one will ever hear of.
hard_candy 25
art is to be felt, not to be beautiful....but I am very curious as to what the painting was of indeed!
_taylorharper_ 18
Definitely a fruit.. But ignore you're grandpa, stick to doing what you love
Yazoo77 16
Curious as to why you say it's a fruit?
axfabxdisaster 25
I'm pretty sure it's a fruit; but just ignore him. Continue painting if that's what you really enjoy.
MrConcise 35
That's why he's staying in your guest room and you're not visiting him in his art-critic-career-funded mansion, right?
Unbearable_fml 21
An artist is never appreciated in their own time. I hope your father apologized, at least.
pete9913 23
kids say the darnedest things, elderly say the rudest. they have no filter sometimes and just blurt anything out. you just have to ignore those comments.
lactemps 3
Your GrandPa in this case is your best critic. Art matures as the mind grows. Take that as a compliment, sit with him and savoy his own thoughts, paint a picture of his mind and see how inspired you would be. An Artist NEVER gets angry at the thoughts of his/her works, but draw inspiration from them all. This is why the brush goes from left to right and vice versa when you paint. Good luck in your aspirations and NEVER let the paint dry on your BRUSH. I wish I can be honoured to see your paintings. Take it from someone whose life is a Work of Art.
AHotCupOfCoffee 28
OP can take this as constructive criticism sure, but a mind's age doesn't always correspond with their physical one (hence songs like Young at Heart). Now the thing about inspiration for me is that sometimes you just need to let your own mind breathe, because drawing to much can develope standards, which should not exist in art. Maybe OP just likes to do his own thing, maybe they don't need inspiration from grampgramps or anyone for that matter. This opinion should be taken with a ******* heap ton of salt though, last attempt at art was fingerpainting 12 years ago.
Death_of_all 14
Artists DO get angry/hurt at what others think about their work, and OP has a right to be upset. The grandpa offered nothing constructive about the painting, just insulted it, so OP can't even 'improve' their work (if they even need to). Also, art is subjective and doesn't mature as you grow older. Once someone's a fully grown adult, they are perfectly capable of knowing what their taste is, older people's views aren't more valid than younger people's views.
CommentKing207 23
The elderly love stating their opinions, don't they? Especially if they are set on talking crap. Your painting was probably really good OP.