Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival

A few years ago when I was working as a nanny, I got pretty good (so I sometimes thought) at at drawing with sidewalk chalk. My drawings were mostly limited to bugs and flowers, but I had fun messing around with shading and outlining and things like that.

Yesterday there was a sidewalk chalk art festival at the community college near my house. There, I saw how the pros did things. It was pretty amazing.

It's hard to tell from my pictures, but most of the sidewalk art was probably at least three feet across, maybe more. Most of the artists had been working on their pictures all day, putting in around eight or even more hours into their pictures. For their sake, I'm really glad it didn't rain.

Here are some of my favorites.












The last one of the Norman Rockwell picture was probably the most impressive, even though it was far from finished. Some of the shading and detail in that one was amazing.

So, the next time I have a wide expanse of sidewalk at my disposal, I'm going to get me some chalk and see if I can improve on my past attempts. It's doubtful that I will be any better, but it might will be fun to try.