My 15 minutes of fame in art class (sharing a real life story) 😎🎨

I'd like to share something interesting that happened to me in elementary school.

I used to hate art lessons in elementary school because I pretty much sucked at drawing. I was talentless in that department. My drawings of people, animals, houses, objects etc., was and still is basically at kindergarten level 😄😄😄.

I barely passed the art class.

But despite that I somehow managed to have my "15 minutes of fame" as they say. To this day I'm surprised this actually happened.

It was a 90 min art class (5 or 6th grade) where the task was to paint a picture with watercolors. Now I don't excatly remember if we were limited to a certain theme (trees) or if it was free choice but the best painting would be put on display at a local hotel as the prize.

Unfortunately I never took the picture of my painting but it was basically a tree with a trunk and a treetop (it didn't even have branches). The reason I think my painting won is because I managed to put together an idilic mixture of colors of the various leaves in the treetop.

The closest painting I could find to give you an approximate visual is this one...

Image source

Imagine my shock when the teacher said she chose my picture as the winner the very next week 😮😮😮. I was like WTF? Are you kidding me? I mean I was pleased with my painting which was a rare occurrence in my case but to have the best painting out of 30+ schoolmates was a big surprise to me. I was very proud of it though. It was that much sweeter because this was something I wasn't good at, too put it mildly.

Image source

Was I channeling my creative side buried somewhere deep in side me or a past life? Or was it just a fluke. Who knows. 😊

Anyway my picture did actually get put on the display at that hotel.

What was your 15 minutes of fame? In any walk of life, no matter how small.

This could be a new tag - fifteenminutesoffame