For the third year in a row I got to be a featured artist for the Idaho Statesman Chalk Art Festival at Anne Morrison Park in Boise. Old Fashioned fireworks were my theme.
This year we celebrated the 4th of July the way we have for the past two years — by starting our day early at the Idaho Statesman’s Chalk Art Festival in Ann Morrison Park.
This was my third year as a Featured Artist and my goal was to be finished no later than 11:00 AM. (And not ever let them see me sweat!)
After working on 8′ x 10′ tarpestries for a while now, the 6′ square piece of sidewalk didn’t seem all that big, so I spilled over into the next square with a fifth firework.
Because it’s much more fun working in the hot sun with a friend by your side, I was happy to have Lauren Kistner be my sidewalk buddy again this time.
She worked on another charming chicken — a charming, naughty chicken who’d gotten into the vegetable garden.
Mike was a huge help as always. He dealt with the crazy parking, decorated the additional 5th firework with a nod to Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” fetched water, blended outlines and took a ton of photos.
When I was almost finished, Mike picked Logan up so he could see this year’s chalk art. And get hugs from my sidewalk buddy.
(I think his t-shirt selection was spot on!)
Not sure I’ll do this again next year — 3 times seems like a perfect number — but I have had a great time, every time!
I hope you have a great time this 4th of July as well.
Stay cool, have fun, and remember — chalk art fireworks won’t accidentally catch your Grand Pappy’s barn on fire and burn down half the county!
For the second year in a row I participated in the Idaho Statesman’s Chalk Art Festival in Ann Morrison Park as a Featured Artist.
I used a little watercolor painting I did inspired by an old fashioned firework maker’s advertisement as my guide:
I like my Easter mornings Sunny-side Up, and thinking you might too, hare are a few “yolks” to start your day off in a hoppy way too!!
In spite of Lina and Logan being grown and gone, and the desire to decorate for Easter being somewhat diminished as a result, I still manage to refill our empty nest with painted eggs and funny bunnys every year around this time.
Painted wooden eggs apparently last forever. You can’t devil them, and they don’t make your teeth hurt like Cadbury’s Cream Eggs, but they sure are pretty.
Bringing them out every year whether the kids are home or not, we go to church or not, we share a meal with family and friends or not, is one of my domestic rituals.
I see my life in circles, and bringing out the painted eggs and placing them this year in our empty nest…another circle is complete.
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