Labor Day Weekend

We spent 2 days in Fremont Park this weekend, helping my aunt Cindy out with her double-square for the annual Chalk It Up benefit. Chalk It Up is a non-profit organization dedicated to funding children's art education in the Sacramento region. People can 'rent' portions of the sidewalk and decorate them with chalk. Vendors and musicians come, kids get small squares for free, lots of dogs... you name it. Since Cindy was asked to do a double square, she needed our help! Our portion was sponsored by University Art and was in a nice shady spot under a tree by the Children's Tent.
i can't remember how big our actual chunk of sidewalk was, but you can tell from this pic that it was big. (the sign in the top left is an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper) Of course, the photo doesn't do any justice to the pop of the color or to the nuances of our mad chalking techniques, so just trust me when i say it was genius. Our fingers are still pretty sore from using the small sticks of soft pastels and hand-blending the colors, and our legs and backs also took some for the team, but, it's all for the children. Josh was in charge of working a shout-out to our sponsor into the design, Cindy did all the crazy detail work, and i sat around eating chalk. Seriously folks, i'm not a natural with soft pastels, at least, not on sidewalk. i would color a portion, then Josh and Cindy would have to come through and edit it. It was fun though, anytime i can be covered head to toe in a mess of color is a good time. Makes me feel like an undiscovered prodigy to have art under my fingernails.