So Tuesday, March 11th, between the hours of 3 and 6 my art locker was broken into.<\/p>\n
How could I tell?<\/p>\n
It was quite blatantly obvious by the fact that a locker is supposed to lock your personal items up, safe away from the elements of the world, and that when your locker is missing its lock… you just know you’re in trouble.<\/p>\n
The thief\/thieves left anything that wasn’t art-related, hence anything inexpensive. They didn’t seem to mind ripping off $400 of art supplies and at least 50 hours of work.<\/p>\n
Bye-bye, 2 full days of my life!<\/p>\n
Precariously stacked in my locker were a portfolio, a painting (which was conveniently DUE the next day), a palette, a roll of long bristle brushes, and a tub of 20 tubes of acrylic paint. Inside the portfolio were my ink\/watercolor\/rendering brushes, 5 tubes of gouache and ALL my color light and theory work for the entire semester.<\/p>\n
Whoever stole all that must have caused quite a commotion, because even I was fearing unstacking all those precious items.<\/p>\n
And I most certainly hope that the moldy fumes of my palette knocked them off their feet….!<\/p>\n
And, they took my only wireless mouse, too, which happened at the worst possible time >.<<\/p>\n
How low is that?? It’s low enough to even steal someone else’s painting, its fate to likely be gessoed over and re-painted by the cruel greedy-minded taker, and… urrrgh!! How can anyone just… do that??<\/p>\n
And I had a special combination lock on there just so it WOULDN’T be broken in to!<\/p>\n
See if I ever rely on that locker again for holding my personal goods… worked just fine for almost two years. At least I got a new portfolio that’s got more pockets than a troop of kangaroos that will hopefully eliminate the need to store anything in a locker again!<\/p>\n
Except for maybe a bottle of paint medium.<\/p>\n
They didn’t take that, for some unknown reason…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So Tuesday, March 11th, between the hours of 3 and 6 my art locker was broken into. How could I tell? It was quite blatantly obvious by the fact that a locker is supposed to lock your personal items up, … Continue reading