2017 chalk walk

For many years now, my city has held an annual Chalk Walk in conjunction with its festival. The Chalk Walk, a type of street art, consists of local artists of varying talent creating scenes with pastels on the street. Their "canvas" is a 4' x 4' or 8' x 8' spot on Main Street. Every one is encouraged to join in and participate. This is a crowd favorite and it draws upwards of 40,000 people every year. The weather this year was fantastic.......although, sadly, it rained cats and dogs the next day. A lot of hard work washed away. Here are some photos I took, shooting downward layful:, of the event!

That's a pretty cool idea!

Some of those chalk works looked more like oil paintings!

RocketCowboy said:

That's a pretty cool idea!

Some of those chalk works looked more like oil paintings!

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It is a cool idea, borrowed from an Italian tradition of street painting that dates to the 16th century, known as i madonnari (street painters). I think different pastels can have different compositions.........dry to oily (?) I think LOL

Lovely idea and well captured.

mikew said:

Lovely idea and well captured.

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Thanks Mike, I appreciate that

Very cool Chris. Neat Comunity event. Great Job.

Danno said:

Very cool Chris. Neat Comunity event. Great Job.

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Thank you Dan. I just push a button on the camera (sometimes the wrong one)...........these people have got real talent! It was such a gorgeous day for it........the rest of the week hasn't been so kind for our 9 day festival, but hopefully that will change!

Hmm ... how cool could some drone footage of these works be? Assuming it's legal to fly a drone overhead with all the people around.