Drawing on Earth

iBook – The Making of a World Record

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:20:59 +0000

Our book is now available electronically as an iBook for iPads, iPhone, and the iTouch.
And for a whooping $4.99. And it looks beautiful!

Drawing on Earth – iBook

Mark Wagner, Founder of DoE Speaking @ USF

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:18:47 +0000

“Street Painting: Creating Community Through Impermanent Art”

Mark Wagner, Founder and Creative Director of Drawing on Earth will be speaking on Monday, Jan. 9 at the University of San Francisco. The lecture series is through Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER).

6:30 pm
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
SF, CA 94117
Room: Fromm (FR) building, Maraschi room

Kids & Parents Creating Together

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:12:20 +0000

One of the things that I have seen over the years is the energy that goes back and forth between kids and adults when they are being creative together. Kids are naturally creative, I like to say they are the world’s most renewable creative resources.

It’s us adults that have more than not somehow forgotten and disconnected from that natural uninhibited creative energy. What I see is that the children call the adults out, they are an invitation to create, to get down on our hands and knees and draw with them.

What I see is that the adults wake up, they get excited, and at the same time the kids love to be with their parents, they love to be creative with their parents and how often does that happen?

Blessings to all the children and adults creating together – we need each other!

~MW

Chalk Fest 2011 – Sarasota Florida

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:26:46 +0000

What a beautiful chalk festival! Street painting artists from all over the world came to draw on the streets. This year a new element was introduced – vertical. Mural and graffiti artists were invited to create work all over the area where we were chalk drawing. MTO and other fantastic French graffiti artists created amazing works all around town. Master street painter Kurt Weener was chalking and lecturing, along with most of the best street painting artists in the world. This year featured many large anamorphic perspective pieces. See photos from the festival with the below links.

And a special thanks to the artistic director of the event Denise Kowal and her amazing production team.

Facebook: Drawing on Earth Photos/Sarasota2011

Sarasota Chalk Fest

Video: Making of the 3D Lego Army

Facebook: sarasota/chalkfestival

Speaking @ Stanford “Seeing into the Life of Things” Nov. 14

admin — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:17:04 +0000

Founder of Drawing on Earth – Mark Wagner
will be speaking at Stanford
along with photographer Rob Buelteman and musician Annea Lockwood.

“SEEING into the LIFE of THINGS”
Nov. 14, 2011
7pm, Free

Buy a Book, Support the Creative Arts and Drawing on Earth

admin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:21:23 +0000

We just republished our Making of a World Record Chalk Drawing book. If you haven’t gotten a copy please do (hard back are the best). This is one of our products to bring in small income. You’ll be supporting our new nonprofit, supporting the creative arts, and learning what it’s like to dream big, to be involved in a school district, kids, community, and the inner workings of how to make a world record.

www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2478504

Thank you!

~Mark Wagner
Founder of Drawing on Earth

NEA

admin — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 04:30:08 +0000

We were recently were chalk drawing at the NEA Community Learning Center, a small charter K-12 school in Alameda, CA. The school’s totem is a Baobab Tree, a strange and magical African tree, that is what we drew. See more photos in our Gallery section – NEA

Press:
Jumbo Logo

Special thanks to Tania Seabock, Lynne Minney, Maafi Gueye

And here’s a wonderful time-lapse YouTube video of the day by Donna Eyestone.

NEA Community Learning Center

admin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:16:54 +0000

Phil Roberts – thank you!

admin — Tue, 31 May 2011 02:36:58 +0000

Phil Roberts and Mark Wagner
I Madonnnari, Italian Street Painting Festival, Santa Barbara 1994

In 1994 Phil Roberts invited art school buddy Mark Wagner to help him with the featured street painting piece – Michelangelo’s “Last Judgement.” 10 x 20 ft. (6 days). Roberts is a master of the arts, creating everything under the sun from larger than life size surf sculptures, movie posters, to water theme parks around the world. philrobertsart.wordpress.com

This was the beginning of Mark Wagner’s chalk drawing career and the beginning of Drawing on Earth.
Thank you Phil Roberts!

This recent Memorial day weekend was the 25th anniversary of the I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival in Santa Barbara 2011. This chalk drawing festival is the oldest festival in the USA. Created by Kathy Koury, the festival, like most, raises money to keep the arts alive. www.imadonnarifestival.com

And there he was again, 17 years later! Thanks…. bro!

See MORE PHOTOS of the festival on our Facebook page.

Welcome to our New web site!

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 04:56:17 +0000

Ah…. what a wonderful journey it’s been in redesigning our web site. It’s been several months in the making and many more moons in the idea phase. Please have a look around. You’ll see a new Gallery section with hundreds of photos, videos, and books for sale.

You’ll see that Drawing on Earth has recently become a 501(c)3 nonprofit with a small board and an amazing group of advisors. We’d like to especially thank Jeff Samorano from Entropic Studio for being our technical WordPress guru.

~Mark Wagner