I was one of 20 local artists who spent the morning to early afternoon (9:30AM to 2PM), knee deep in chalk. We all had to create a piece based on the theme, “whatever inspires you about reading and literacy.” This was for Oregon Literacy, Inc and the Portland Literacy Council. They provided us with boards (black), and the chalk; as well as coffee, food and snacks. I brought some Grow!, just in case.
All the work will be on display at Pioneer Place (downtown mall), and will then be auctioned off.
Patrica - for some reason I couldn’t download your
pic on my I.E. 5 (Mac version) so I gave my Netscape
4.77 a whirl and voila…! Pretty cool pic - it’s got a theme,
it tells a story, strong color scheme, great composition,
hot chicks and a hint of sapphic undertone…hmmmm!
P.S. I got some seriously out-dated software; will be
getting a G4, hopefully real soon!
By that time, my legs were pretty much covered in black chalk; as were the hands. Pretty funny I looked.
I love doing this stuff. Me and my fellow GAG (Graphic Artists Guild, there were five of us all together today), had much fun. And to top it off, it was for a good cause: to get people interested to read.
The topper was to hear a father/mother tell a child: “okay, let’s go to the library now…” after seeing all the impressive work. Very cool. Very satisfying.
she’s reading “Le Morte d’Arthur” by Sir Thomas Malory (the book that the movie “Excalibur” was based on) and imagining herself as the part of “King Arthur”, maybe “Queen Arthur”…or something like that.
The other chick is reading one of my other favorite books, “The Secret Garden”.
Sort of reminds me of the opening scenes of Reading Rainbow where the butterfly would fly around turing the “real” world into whatever was in the book. Not that I’m a child of the 80s or anything.
Anyway, very cool. I couldn’t even get a job drawing the chalk outlines of bodies, much less even consider something this incredible. Glad it didn’t rain.
