Thank you Denver Chalk Art Festival!

Had another wonderful visit to Denver for the weekend. They have such a great support team!

http://www.larimerarts.org/index.php

A cool slideshow from a local news station:

 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/slideshow/slideshows/23812124/detail.html

Just added "Pages" by CITY

Click on the links at the top of my blog for some past images by festival location.

**Please do not copy or reproduce any images without permission - Thanks!! **

Mount Vernon's Chalk the Walk 2010

Getting started, day 2 (thanks for the pic, Patti!)

detail from W.A. Bouguereau's "The Storm"

All finished - 12'x12'

...and with my signature "all done" pose... ;)  (thanks, Craig!)

Festa Italia in Santa Monica 1995

Raphael's "Madonna of the Chair" on a sidewalk on Santa Monica's 3rd Street Promenade, for their Italian Festival.

Definitely not my favorite surface - the concrete was too smooth to accept the chalk - but an interesting festival none the less...

Denver's La Strada Dell' Arte 2003

Starting "A Grecian Lovely" by John William Godward (10' diameter circle in a 12'x12' square)

Santa Clarita Street Art Festival 2008

Working on Lord Fredrick Leighton's Biondina (12'x12')

"Madonnara..."

I'm sure many of you may be wondering why I use the word "madonnara" and what it means. 
In the 13th century, after the great Crusades, injured soldiers returned home and many took to the streets.  In order to earn some money, some would draw pictures of the Madonna outside churches in order to stir the hearts of the churchgoeers.  These artists became known in Italian as "Madonnari".  A singular-female version of this word is "madonnara" - which is what I have been using for my e-mail and webpage for many years, since streetpainting has been a passion of mine since I was 13.  Streetpainting is now a celebrated artform around the world and I feel so lucky to have been able to travel, share my art, and meet so many wonderful people along the way.