Hi everyone,
This is a little postcard from Sarasota.
Today we perused the chalk paintings on the street between Orange and Pineapple Streets.
The Chalk Festival has been going on for a week and will finish tomorrow.
Artists from all over the globe participate in this strange and funky venue
that resembles mural art, cartooning, and mastering the Masters.
Bacchus by Carravagio.
This is a little postcard from Sarasota.
Today we perused the chalk paintings on the street between Orange and Pineapple Streets.
The Chalk Festival has been going on for a week and will finish tomorrow.
Artists from all over the globe participate in this strange and funky venue
that resembles mural art, cartooning, and mastering the Masters.
They've been working on their paintings in the hot sun for six days.
We're so happy that it hasn't rained on their parade of paintings!
We stopped to photograph this artist at work on something that might please Adam and Hunter...who is this character? Allen says "Anima"? Japanese cartooning...
You can tell the huge scale of these images by the chalk tray nearby.
These artists do get DOWN & DIRTY...
note the grubby pants and knee pads.
And check this out, Blake!!!
A 3-dimensional Lego scene...huge
(those guys in the grubby clothes
are the ones who chalked this panorama.)
Look at the crowd to see how big the picture is...
I couldn't get it all in my camera viewer.
It was a full lane plus a parking lane wide (right up to the curb)
and twice that measurement in height.
Awesome dimensionality!
And here are some sorta-like lions for Landon.
Their tongues aren't hanging out...:)
Looks like they might grow up to be cheetahs.
One section of the Festival showed artists
who chalked up the work of the Masters...Vermeers, Michelangelos, Van Dykes, etc.
Here's a sampling:
Lady With an Ermine...
...copied from the original by Leonardo da Vinci.
A mix of Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, Munch's The Scream, and a Self Portrait of Van Gogh...
in the middle of the scene, a manhole cover :)
I would have loved to have seen Lee Jones' street reproduction
of Vermeer's Girl With the Pearl Earring
but I enjoyed his album of street paintings he left out for us to look at.
Oops! It's raining here in Venice.
I wonder if it's raining on the chalkwork in Sarasota
only 20 miles away...
2 comments:
As we were scrolling through Landon pointed at the Lions!! how funny--- Beautiful chalk work! Kim n Landon
The Anime image is actually from a video game called The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Adam
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