Street Painting Chalk Art at Tabor Days - Day 2

Well, the weather for Day Two of the Tabor Days festival in Doylestown was much more cooperative and conducive to street painting with chalk than was Day One! It was a glorious day.

Here are the results of our efforts:

This i's what Saturday's rain left me of the previous days work:



Because Sunday's day would be short, an earlier start allowed me to get right to work . I skipped redoing the grid, since I had a ghost of the image there, and just redrew in the puppy freehand. He came along pretty quickly.



Then I recreated the boy playing in the mud blocking in the yellows, browns and blues, and laid in some tan for the mud puddle.




That bright yellow sweatshirt he had on, was a real challenge. I'd get it nice and bright; then after working on the mud areas for awhile, I noticed that the wind blew a lot of the darker colors over onto the yellow and I'd have to keep adding more yellows and whites to keep it bright looking.





The little boy has hands now!
Here, I've added shadows in the folds of his clothes, laid in some more mud in front, as well as some turquoise blue in the background indicating the mud puddle in the background reflecting the sky as the puppy looks on. There was also a turtle that kept an eye on all of us Madonnarians that day. See if you can find him in the next photo!










"Mud Fun" completed!

It was already after 2pm when this was finished on Sunday. The festival was to go until 4. The rain had set us back behind schedule but I was determined to make the time to turn my second sketch into a chalk reality!

So with a minor adjustment, I managed to get it in. See below...


Here is my sketch.
This was created ahead of time, when I didn't yet know anything about the type of surface on which we would be working. My vision was of a light-colored sidewalk drawing in the darker cracks on which the ant hill and the dandelion sit.

But now, knowing how black the actual surface was, and with the time remaining so short, it was time for some adjustment! I decided to simplify it by allowing the asphalt to become the background. I had to make the ants lighter in color in order for them to show up too.


Flexibility is key sometimes!






This second one was done very quickly. I think my favorite part is where this time,. the wind kind of helped. Look how the wind has blown part of the dandelion puff away!








Completed works!



"Mud fun" by Jeanne Guerin-Daley


"Antics" by Jeanne Guerin-Daley


Leslie Debrocky's 1st piece


Leslie DeBrocky's 2nd piece
(Her daughter Nikki also worked on them)


Marji Lewis Quint's first one, "Koi Pond"


Marji Lewis Quint's unfinished 2nd one
(She ran out of time!)


Can't wait till next year!

Chalk Street Painting at Tabor Days

Today was going to be the longer of the two days doing chalk street paintings for the Tabor Days Festival. But thanks to the thunder showers that decided to show up some time before noon, it was a short day for us Madonnarians.

Three other artists and I showed up before ten o'clock and started on one of two paintings each . The plan was for us to create two designs: one for each day.
We unloaded our supplies, gridded out our rectangle, then started blocking in some color. The sun peeked out from behind the clouds a couple times, just long enough for me to think about maybe changing into the shorts I had brought. Then, some time before noon, little raindrops appeared, which became bigger rain drops, and luckily we worked quickly enough to load up our stuff, cover the art, and get under cover before the heavy thunder showers began.

After awhile the rain stopped temporarily and some of us hung around to enjoy the after-effects like watching puddle-jumpers!

We'll be back Sunday-- should be sunny!
Stop in by if you want! Details on their website www.tabor.org

The first picture below is my sketch (with added reference photo) for Saturday's picture.
The next picture shows as far as I got before we had to cover it.



Before the downpour... and after. We were hoping the plastic would protect the work.

Chalk Art this weekend at Tabor Days!

The school year is ending soon and it's a busy time for this mom of four teenagers.
Come August, I won't be able to say that anymore, when my oldest will turn twenty!
With a high school senior/soon-to-be graduate, it's time to clean out the cobwebs and clutter throughout the house and prepare for a party!

And with the First Friday Main Line event at Merion Art & Repro coming so soon (June 6th,) I have been concentrating on finishing ongoing works and preparing for matting and framing,... Some of my art is already hanging in the window, but much more will be available for show and sale on June 6th (For more info on this event, see ***below).

So I spent much of the Memorial Day holiday weekend splitting time between house work and artwork. Doing the artwork was oh-so-much-more-fun! I am having a blast with pastels!

Just to stir the pot a bit more, I now have information about another event in which I will be participating. A couple ARTsister friends of mine (Leslie DeBrocky and Marji Lewis Quint) and I will be creating chalk art this coming weekend (May 31st and June 1st) at a festival geared for kids. It's called Tabor Days and it's presented by Tabor Children's Services in Doylestown, PA (Sat 10-4, Sun Noon -4)
Looks like a lot of fun and it benefits at-risk children and families. Affordable too! ($5/person or $20/family) More info at http://www.tabor.org

*** General info on First Friday Main Line at http://www.FirstFridayMainLine.com
For a brief description of my art click here, then look for the picture of the German Shepard.

Now I have to get back to my chalk art project sketch.