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Every kid who makes a joke at the expense of their grade, is a winner for me!
I failed Art 1 in high school, which I didn't even have to take but did because I wanted to and was fairly artistic.
Our midterm was a watercolor piece. We had to watercolor underwater sea life. I didn't want to water color fish. I asked to do something else. Denied.
So, I watercolored and octopus and some fish the my entire page completely black overtop. Underwater Sea Life at -10k
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My final was also a 40 because I turned it in on the last day. Mixed media that I easily put 100 hours into but lost points for incompletion and it being late.
The whole experience actually turned me off of physical art, looking back on it.
 
Maybe you should have used real octopus ink. Authentic art!

Our daughter had some great art teachers in high school. Two of them built a glass-blowing facility. The only high school around that had glass blowing. The students crank out some beautiful work. Each year they hold a Christmas sale at the local farmer's market (which happens to be in the high school parking lot).
 
I my art class we had a furnace so that we could cast aluminium. So you would carve a piece out of polystyrene foam, add sprues, pack it in sand and cast it in aluminium. I never did get around to trying it. But I did have a painting exhibited in town and received a certificate signed by Syd Nolan (famous Australian artist). I don't why I got that certificate.

Glass blowing would be amazing! A couple of years ago we visited Kufstein in Austria. I had never heard of it before, and having visted I can kinda see why... But it has the Riedl factory which produces some of the best wine glasses. You can tour the facility and it's really hot! You walk around a catwalk which encircles the glass-blowing area so it gets quite toasty up there. But the highlight of Kufstein for us was a cocktail bar called Stollen. It's hidden right in the middle of the small old town, dug into the mountain under the medieval fortress and behind a restaurant. It was dug into solid rock as a bomb shelter in the 1920s. So it's a rough hewn hole in a mountain with an ornate timber bar inserted into it. It's spectacular and the drinks are fantastic. It has thousands of different kinds of gin.
 
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