Week 10 - Wellll HELLLOooo! Between Spring Break tripping, birthdays celebrating, garden putting-inning, job shopping and various other sundries, I find myself WAY behind again! (...behind, but not defeated~! Week 10 and 11 are at hand!!)
Sooo.... at the bowling alley last weekend, my buddies Michael and Melissa gave me a birthday gift that came with a challenge. The gift was a package of sidewalk chalk. Michael told me about the sidewalk chalk artists they'd seen and explained how they crushed up the chalk, added it with water and then painted with it. He placed the gift in my hands and said, "This is your challenge". (Thanks M & M!)
That challenge was just the kick in the pants I needed to pick up the pace with my 52 paintings project. I started the next day crushing up the chalk into little tupperware containers (old pliers work fabulously for that, in case you were wondering...) ....then adding water, scooping it up on brushes and 'painting' with it.
My original idea was to try to do something 10K related since Levi and I had just done that for the first time on my Birthday morning. ...Working with chalk is great for ease, but not for detail! ....I found that I needed to think bigger with lots less detail. The texture was a natural for sand, so the beach scape just kind of came. Chalk is unbelievably easy to clean up, and store and work with, but the downside for me is that it dries so much lighter than when it is wet. The top picture is when it's dry, the bottom is immediately after being misted with water. Huh. Interesting.
I still have a lot of chalk, so I will be experimenting with how to keep that wet look, how to get more details out of it and hopefully still have the ease of use, storage and clean up that chalk has provided so far....
Stay tuned for week 11...where we'll add some wood glue to some chalk before spreading it around to see what happens... !