Ceremonial Chalk Drawing: Sarasota Florida
The largest chalk festival in the world is happening next weekend in Sarasota Florida USA. Over 250 artists from around the world will be drawing on the streets, and also "going vertical" creating murals and graffiti works of art. This years theme is "Legacy of Valor." Nov. 13 - 18. Sarasota Chalk Festival 2013 Drawing on Earth, Mark Lewis Wagner, Veteran Artist Mark Pinto, and Laura Slocum will be creating a large ceremonial chalk drawing for Veterans and the Global Village. In the old days the village created a sacred time and space to welcome the warriors back from the unimaginable experience of war, and help them integrate back into society. Today the need is still the same, returning [...]
Fundraiser 2013: Raffle, Ends Nov. 10
www.drawingonearth.org/donate When your chalk stash is low raise some funds. It's time to buy some chalk, hire a grant writer, pay some teens to learn admin, open a chalk park (a first), and set a few more world records. Would you like to be part of this creative adventure? There is a raffle happening now for framed prints (approx. 14 x 14in.) of Founder and Creative Director Mark Lewis Wagner artwork. 3 winners get a choice of art pieces. Raffle ends Nov. 10 - TWO WEEKS. Each ticket is $25! THANKS!
Chalk Drawing Park
Proposal CHALK DRAWING PARK Alameda Point, Alameda, California USA Imagine this… an open to the public drawing area available on weekends for the entire community; kids, parents, schools (on weekdays), and after school. A drawing area that can be used for special art events, for international street painters (chalk drawings) to come and run workshops, and for a few more world records. To LEARN and DRAW MORE...
Back to School
Chalk Drawing at Your School DOWNLOAD PROPOSAL: Chalk Drawing in Schools The Fall is here, the equal day and equal night which is good for the balance for all the light and dark. Drawing on Earth is beginning to book schools to chalk draw at in the San Francisco Bay Area. We also travel! Mark Wagner, founder of Drawing on Earth has been chalk drawing on school playgrounds for almost 15 years. "I've been coming back to schools and the 5th graders have been drawing with me since kindergarten. That's really cool and they remember each each vividly!" It also leaves a life long impression on students and teacher, they look forward to the annual entire school chalk [...]
Things are Happening on the Veteran Art Front
Things are creatively happening with Drawing on Earth interacting with Veterans. It's exciting, something big is brewing, a wave of creative energy. There is a need to be filled, the community and artist helping the Veterans journey home, back into this world, in health, soulful, creative ways. Events: 1) Founder of Drawing on Earth Mark Wagner will be chalk drawing Weds. July 31 for the art opening "Celebrating the Art Of Service" at the San Francisco's Mission Cultural Center. 5-7pm, free, open to the public, veterans and everyone invited to collaborate on this one. Piece will be cut up and pieces auctioned off. 2) Sarasota Florida, Nov. 13 - 18. The largest chalk drawing festival in the world. [...]
3D Anamorphic Perspective @ Oxford
Through a grant from the Berkeley Education Foundation (California USA), Drawing on Earth was again able and honored to visit Oxford Elementary School. This year we were able to chalk draw with the entire school. Last year we draw a phoenix which is the school's animal totem. Over this last year the school painted permanent playground graphics for the kids to play on. Looking closely at the photo and wondering what to draw this year I had the idea of playing with dimensions. The original photo was taken from the upper deck of the playground. I saw that if I drew perspective lines that all originated at the point where the viewer stands then everything goes 3D and [...]