# 13 - Put a piece of art in an auction

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!