Last weekend was the annual Chalk Arts Festival in Larimer Street. On Sunday, I headed to Larimer Street. This year it was fortunate that we had good weather. Last year work for several artists was washed away. During this middle of the day it stared getting hot. Also, with the high sun, it was a challenge to find good lighting, especially when including artists and other figures in the images.
Artist, Drawing In The Midday Sun
The midday lighting often makes it easy to capture the saturated colors of the chalk on a flat surface. In the following image, the artist had completed the collar for this masked lady, leaving the chalk on the pavement.
Masked Lady And Chalk
This teenage artist was busy completing the subjects hair.
Teenage Artist At Work
While working on the chalk images, the artists usually follow a small scale image of the image that they are drawing. Often, several artists work as a team on a single image. In the following image, the artist is drawing the dragon while a team member was working behind her, on the right.
Drawing The Dragon
This artist was taking a break from drawing for a beverage break. I was intrigued by the was that here hat fell across her face.
Behind My Hat
She soon continued to work on here complex image under an awning.
Artist With Hat
Mythica, whom I met at a previous year’s festival, is always dressed with colorful clothes. This year her hat was livened up with multi-colored flowers.
Mythica’s Hat
Sometimes the artist’s work includes large areas of white background, as in the following cartoon-like image. This is great for making photographs in the midday sun, because the white background acts as a reflector for fill-in lighting.
Drawing Finishing Touches
I found the following family enjoying their lunch in the shaded side of the building while listening to the band play.
Eating Lunch
Further along, several people were enjoying the shade and the band. The following gentleman was curious as why I was making images of the spectators and not the artists and the band!
Onlookers Near The Band Stage
Later, during the afternoon, the sun had moved, putting this following artist’s work in the shade.
Artist With Chalk
Behind, a couple of guys were busy sitting back in their chairs! I made this following image of the boxes of colorful chalks, making sure the I included a right foot and sandals.
Right Foot And Chalks
Somewhere, Over The… not the rainbow. This was an interesting image with a rainbow of colors.
Somewhere Over The…
When I arrived here, the artist had just completed the image and proceeded to remove the border tape.
Removing Border Tape
Meanwhile, here partner, also an artist, was busy with a phone call with their child sleeping in a baby carrier on his back. During the course of the day, both artists took turns in baby carrying while drawing.
Artist And Child