{"id":360,"date":"2010-09-10T12:50:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T18:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2010-10-19T11:05:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:05:39","slug":"chalk-it-up-sidwalk-chalk-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/360","title":{"rendered":"“CHALK IT UP” SIDWALK CHALK EVENT!"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 4, 2010<\/p>\n

Sacramento’s “Chalk it up” festival is a non-profit organization created to support art education programs. Their website is www.chalkitup.org<\/a><\/p>\n

This is their twentieth year. Labor Day Weekend (September 4-6), two hundred artists came out and drew on five-by-five-foot sidewalk squares. There was live music, food, vendors, and children’s activities.<\/p>\n

I was invited to participate this year. I decided to draw my Jack Kirby-style “Spluhh monster.” A lot of artists take the three-day weekend to create their masterpieces. Registration was at 7am. I hoped to get there by 8am, and finish in time for a late lunch that first day. I suspected I would work faster than a lot of artists.<\/p>\n

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Here is the square I chose for myself. Number 25.<\/p>\n

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My wife popped over with my boys at around 9am, after I’d had a chance to write “SPLUHH” and roughly sketch out SPLUHH’S shape. It was an interesting exercise trying to fit the work into a square rather than rectagonal composition.<\/p>\n

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I shamelessly brought a pile of shwag to sell to passersby. I think I was the only one.<\/p>\n

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Since they were there, I let the boys help with the piece, and add some lines to the work. Boris did it first. He grabbed a piece of chalk and started “chalking.” I tried to capture the act on film, but by the time I had the camera up, he was on to other things and didn’t care to participate again. Oscar worked at the piece for a little while, though.<\/p>\n

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TUNE IN NEXT MONDAY, fans! Chris will walk us through a “BEFORE AND AFTER” process, start to finish, of creating his FULL-COLOR five-foot-square “SPLUHH” monster! See you then! – Rob Oder, Editor-in-Chief!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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