Sunday, May 5, 2013

Chalk Art on a Lazy Saturday

Yesterday, I was useless. I had stayed up until 5:30 preparing for a 10am meeting. The preparation helped a lot, and the meeting was great. And then I crashed.

After a nap, I ended up having a fantastic lazy Saturday. I bought bubble tea and sat outside in the spring sunshine, people watching. I bought groceries, and stopped by the local Michaels for some craft supplies.

And, on my walk, I stumbled on some really neat art. All over my neighborhood, someone was chalking shadows. 

I took this picture of a fire hydrant as I left my block.


Everywhere I went, there were shadow tracings, some of them quite detailed.


Two hours later, when I came back, I saw that the chalk artist had struck again, not long after my first visit!


As I was taking pictures of some of the tracings, I noticed a man doing the same thing. I commented to him that it was a really neat art project, and he said "I did it." I asked if I could take a picture of him, and he said yes! Here's the artist, David Andrus, with his work.


He asked if I could send him the picture I took, to include in a grant application he's working on. So, in a small way, I contributed to the art. :-) It was a nice end to my lazy day.

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