Pavement Art Gallery

[Peter Voice]

Yo Dave,

It's about time you started to play here.

You're doing most things right when posting but you have to make the images at 75 ppi and keep your images less than 16cm wide. It makes it easier for us to see them and uses less band-width (ie it loads quicker and doesn't weigh down the website)

I'm really looking forward to seeing what you are doing. It's been 12 years since we met in Toronto and I'm still chuffed at how it worked out. It could so easily have gone wrong.

Love your stuff and I'm glad you found what is out there.

Love from Bev, too.

PS Give us more stuff as you do it, it's sort of exciting to see what people did last weekend.

[chalkmaster dave]

yo pete

heya....ill try to do that...im not completely computer savy yet...but im working on it.
i made a little video though if ya wanna see it....do you have msn messenger....if so i could send it to you through there....its a 90 second peice i set to music of my little art. some of its ok, so of it im still learning. if you interested let me know.
say hi to the bev-ster.
im doing kingston next week....already know what im gonna draw and plan on making their eyeballs pop.
cheers
dave

[Bev]

Hi Dave,
Terrific work.
Love the nude you did for Halifax.
The silhouette works really well when your'e compromised by lousy weather or you don't have much time.

Please keep posting when you can. I am not good at computers either and have to get help with shrinking down big files and lots of things.

Melbourne has been treating me surprisingly well these school holidays with generous crowds and warm sunny weather in the middle of winter.

Will post again when I have a new work.
Bev

[chalkmaster dave]

dave

thank you bev.
are you responsible for the flying pigs i saw being sold in hong kong?

[Bev]

If ours inspired the ones getting around Honkers we aren't in receipt of any royalties.
Butterflyman sent us a couple of beauties though.
One of those actually flew on a little battery and a piece of string but excited the family dog too much.

[Bev]

Hey Dave, what happened to your pictures?

[martin ewen]

here's more of the Brit 3d guy

If you scroll to the bottom you can see the girl in the swimming pool taken from the 'wrong' angle.
Interesting and I really like the whimsy of the gold digging pics

http://www.rense.com/general67/street.htm

PS I know some of these are dupes but others arent

[DEBBIE ROBINSON]

Hi Peter, Bev, Ulla, and everyone who knows me.
Nice one with the pavement art gallery Peter -its fantastic.
I've been meaning to post here for ages - sorry Peter! Im a full time mum now to a 15 month old girl -"Auckland' and I'm wallowing in it, I'm in my element and loving it. ....
However, everything else I intend to do this year seems to take me a lifetime, or else it doesn't get done!
As far as pavement art goes, Ive retired for at least this year and next. I do odd gigs, or festivals if they suit, but overall I am at home changing nappies and baby playing.Have managed to
return to oil painting and turned a room in the house into a painting room.
I miss the street drawing when I see some of the beautiful work going up here on this site.
Peter's right - back in the 80's in Melbourne I was blown away by his Coke can, my line work is pretty crap in comparison, I'm a colourist at heart, and also nobody was doing such surreal work on the street at that time.
I was a young travelling pavement artist and Gary and I were working together on Elizabeth street. Peter and Bev were at the forefront of pavement art back then, doing some great work, and pavement art itself was at a peak - happy and exciting times.
Well, Ive got to go - Auckland due to wake up any minute...
always, always pushed for time.
Will post again with updated pics, here are some from 97 and the last 2 years efforts...A Stubbs was always my money maker.
Take care
Keep screeving!
Deb x

[Bev]

Hi Deb, We knew you are now a busy Mum, but thanks for posting and its great to see your work again.

Elizabeth St has changed since you and Gary were here of course everything does over time. Still seedy though even though they moved the Post office and turned it into cafes and apartments.

Had the displeasure of working near there for a company sometime ago .

ST.Gill a 19th century artist of some renown for his sketches of the gold fields but little security from his income lived as a street artist in his final days working outside the PO and died in the pub.
Just a little gruesome history from Melbourne.

I remember you drawing Abbot and Costello framed with the film neg trim, that was very effective. The Stubbs pics I also remember fondly and Melbourne loved your work here.
Good to hear that you are painting ,not easy to find time with a small child .

[DEBBIE ROBINSON]

Glad Elizabeth street is still seedy... quite liked it like that...and you're right don't think it could ever be any other way.
Have you met Julian Beever - the 3D guy - nice one for posting his website martin, its awesome work.
Ive seen his work before all over the web and heard of him but not bumped into him, he's got to be one of the best around at mo.

Hi also to Chalkmaster, we've not met, but I've heard gd stuff about your work - echoing Bev - where have ur pics gone?

[Bev]

I haven't met julian Beaver yet. I thought he was from England but he's hot and his work is coming up from all parts of the globe.

I wonder if he will turn up to draw at a Sydney pavement art comp in October . The prize money is good for locals but not internationals.

Has any body seen any of Kurt Wenners work.? His pavement art is also pretty amazing , clever at the figurative and the 3d.
Has a more classical approach.

[Peter Voice]

Part of a workshop that Ulla Taylor, Bev Isaac and I put together with the help of Diana Isaac and Les Goodwin.
For the full story (or some of it at least) see http://www.performers.net/forums/sho...8423#post28423
It's still a work in progress

[Peter Voice]

The project in the previous post is being conducted for Melbourne Museum. It's part of a British and Australian event called "The Big Draw" and is about teaching kids the value of drawing as a tool of understanding and communication.

I though I'd put up some of the kids' drawings from the school workshops.

These artists are about 8-11yo, I hope you like their work.

[Peter Voice]

Hoping you might enjoy a couple more kids' pics.

[Bev]

Have a squizz at Diana,s and my latest pic at southbank.
Entitiled "the Funky Gibbon", the drawing took about 14 days to do but we did go off to the museum to facilitate school workshops before the picture was completed.
A case of unfortunate timing but on the upside despite the rainy spring weather it was a good one to come back to.
It is the last day of the Sept holidays and I am just about to go out again. The weather is terrific, yesterday very windy and so quiet until late in the day then we were too tired to work into the evening.
Yesterday and most of the last week we have had the white noise of the sand blaster on a nearby bridge and it is wearing to say the least. After putting in the effort to draft a pic like this you can't just go somewhere else and start again.
Last week was better busking especially with the grand final on and so many interstate visitors. This week end people are less willing to part with their money.
I've been telling them that our picture is the cheapest and safest trip they will have to Bali.
The funky gibbon is adapted from a photo of the Melbourne zoo gibbon. We did "the Goodies" last yr on their tandem bike and they had a hit song nalled "the Funky Gibbon".