Chalk Art
Date: College Freshman, April 4th, 2011
Time: 3 hours
Materials: Chalk, pavement, fingers (for blending)
Description: Chalk Art Drawing on the pavement. Bright colors, dolphins, dragon, sunset, ocean, horizon, clouds, psychedelic, colorful, rainbow sherbet colors, sun, pop out of picture frame, blending, shading, fantasy,
Artist’s Comments: I did this collaboration with Natalie Luna. She did the dolphins, drew the cloud outlines, colored one, and colored the water and we both decided on the design together. I decided most of the colors and drew the dragon, sunset, and cloud colorings. We blended and smudged with our fingers because there were no other materials available. This was for a chalk art contest in which we earned 2nd place. (though as a side note, one of the people who tied for first place said we should have won first place, but anyway…)
I’ve never drawn a serious art piece with chalk before. I’ve worked with chalk when I was a little kid but only to draw hopscotch or some silly kid thing that wasn’t intended for art. This was a way to experiment with another form of art making. I really enjoyed the many color options that we had, it was very interesting creating a new color scheme out of colors I do not normally use in my art and I believe it turned out pretty amazing. I also experimented with a new technique of having things “pop out of the page”-- having a border but having things go outside of the border.
<<< This is a flattened image that I made by warping the picture on PhotoShop to get a view from above, even though I took the picture from the side. You’ll have to ignore the shadows that the nearby tree cast upon it.
Time: 3 hours
Materials: Chalk, pavement, fingers (for blending)
Description: Chalk Art Drawing on the pavement. Bright colors, dolphins, dragon, sunset, ocean, horizon, clouds, psychedelic, colorful, rainbow sherbet colors, sun, pop out of picture frame, blending, shading, fantasy,
Artist’s Comments: I did this collaboration with Natalie Luna. She did the dolphins, drew the cloud outlines, colored one, and colored the water and we both decided on the design together. I decided most of the colors and drew the dragon, sunset, and cloud colorings. We blended and smudged with our fingers because there were no other materials available. This was for a chalk art contest in which we earned 2nd place. (though as a side note, one of the people who tied for first place said we should have won first place, but anyway…)
I’ve never drawn a serious art piece with chalk before. I’ve worked with chalk when I was a little kid but only to draw hopscotch or some silly kid thing that wasn’t intended for art. This was a way to experiment with another form of art making. I really enjoyed the many color options that we had, it was very interesting creating a new color scheme out of colors I do not normally use in my art and I believe it turned out pretty amazing. I also experimented with a new technique of having things “pop out of the page”-- having a border but having things go outside of the border.
<<< This is a flattened image that I made by warping the picture on PhotoShop to get a view from above, even though I took the picture from the side. You’ll have to ignore the shadows that the nearby tree cast upon it.
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