Pavement Art Gallery

[jeep caillouet]

Where is Safety Harbor,Fl.?I'm So excited I can't wait to get me some chalk. I really like this type of art. Thanks for sharing this with us peter.I'll see you there(if it's not to far).

[nick nickolas]

pavement art in the rain

It rained the day after the final day of the Auckland Festival this year.
This is Ulla Taylor in the rain

[jeep caillouet]

Nick love that pavement art. Thanks for posting that foto.

[martin ewen]

we had this one yet?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1153004/Mind-crevasse-The-amazing-3D-pavement-art-pedestrians-edge.html

[Ullarty]

Hmm I should get around to putting up some pix..

Here are a couple old pictures from the pregnant pavement art series, Chalk the Walk 2007 (People's Choice), and Working in Hong Kong for Tourism Australia last February...

[Ullarty]

My most recent picture in Auckland

Not quite finished, due to rain..

[gav]

a different kind of pavement art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6xCT2aTSo

very cool

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

Nice work, Ulla.

[MagiCol]

Nice work Ulla, indeed. Beautiful 3D effect. I'm interested as a photographer in just how much brighter your art work looks when photographed with the sun shining - see your first picture [sun] and the duller 2nd picture of the same art work. A well-take photo sure does better credit to the artist.

[Ullarty]

Photography is a big issue for the pavement artist.. I'm always after a great shot, but sometimes it doesn't happen..

In the pictures above, the photo with baby Rubyanna is taken two days before "completion".. so I did rework the tones and touch up the fading first days work.. the street drawing was created over about 5 days, and each day it fades a little. But the "fisheye" image was taken with stormclouds looming, just as heavy raindrops started to descend, and I never got to finish the drawing, ie.. populate the street as planned (a view across the road).. I used Photostitch to splice three photos, as I don't have a wide angle lens on my current camera.. and then I also tweaked the tones with Photoshop, filled in gaps from the splicing etc. So that image is CG edited. I feels a little "impure" as a doctored image, but it does represent the colours as first applied, without bleaching of sun and fading of foootprints.. I haven't done this much before, but I imagine I will be doing moreso in the future, unless the feeling of being deceptive takes over.. 'coz sometimes you don't get the good photo...
PS- I find that street art photographed in full sun often appears really bleached and over exposed. I like to wait for a nice even shadow, with the sky still bright, so the pastels glow and the tones are deep...

[MagiCol]

Thanks for sharing, Ulla, of photography

Both your art work, and you at work creating the art, are important to record, I think. Thanks for sharing the background to the photos you took. I wonder how many people - ordinary working people - have worked for 10, 20, 30 years and yet never have a photograph taken of them while they are working. More's the pity for them and their wider families. And for society, also. There's a lesson there for us performers to get someone to do some photograph/video of us while we rehearse and perform. All the best, Ulla.

[martin ewen]

evolving street art

http://www.soulpancake.com/view_post/210246/just-remember-this-word-muto.html

[Katiedid]

Holy crap. Wow. Had me wishing i still did acid.

[Rachel Peters]

Inspiration

Yo yo, my peeps! (I think I just called you all yo-yo's).

So, although I generally enjoy thinking up fun and crazy stuff for myself to chalk across this great land in which I live, this year I really want to bump it up a notch, and I feel like it's just too early in my career to start repeating myself. Chalking the same thing more than once gets boring for me, and if it's boring it's difficult to motivate myself to do it at all.

I want input! I want inspiration!
Help me think of new and funny stuff.

Go see www.rachelpeters.com, if you need to, and take a look at my style.

Last year I went through a "versus" theme which was fun, but might be exhausted by now.
My fav's of last year were,
"Flaming Monkey Ball Vs. Potted Plant"
"Shark Vs. Robot" (That one was my first and I'd like to do it better, for posterity.)
"Giant Squid Vs. Killer Teddy Bears" (with a PEI theme, while in PEI)
"Loonie on a Uni Vs. Hawaiian Flyin' Fish"

I have a good sketch drawn for my next one, "Monkey Riding on the Back of Shark".

But I need a lot of brainstorming help for more randomly combined, funny items before I just start mixing up more monkeys, sharks and robots, in different orders.

Any ideas?

[Stretch]

Rodeo theme? "Monkey Riding on the Back of Shark" Make a list consisting of two columns , then randomly mix and match. First two items would be "monkey" and "Shark".
So : Clown, stilt walker, spider, computer, keyboard, puppy, kid, dollar sign, candy bar, Uncle Sam, Captain Canada, kitten, cook/chef, doctor/nurse, juggler, etc. Good luck!