Okay so I am no artist. In fact when choosing my GCSE
options my dance, drama and music teachers suggested I took their subjects for
GCSE, my art teacher did not! So this was always going to be tough. I thought
about eBay (well that is an auction site) but figured that would be cheating.
So I put it in a ‘real’ auction, albeit a silent auction. Oh and did I mention
it was at my school summer fete! So the art itself was created using blue, red
and white acrylic paints and a potato masher (yes that’s right a potato
masher!). It was aptly named ‘A drop in the ocean’ as it if you look closely
you will notice one white mash ‘dropped’ into the picture! The auction
description named me as a local artist - LJH. It gained two bids and sold for
an incredible £3! Best of all, the final bidder waited to the end to ensure she
won it. However, I must confess the winner was a 9 year old girl who just
happened to be the only child in the school to know that this local artist was
in fact her very own teacher, Mrs Stone (her mum is the chair of the PTA so had
to be in on my secret!). So the frame may have cost more than it sold for but
the school gained £3 and I ticked off number 13!
