A Real Mess
Creating art is a messy adventure – at least for me - though I do love order. I have messy initial sketches and a messy process. Even to create a final drawing, I go through so much layering of tracing paper that someone told me once this layered mess looked like it could be a work of art all by itself!
Right now, I can’t yet imagine how in the world I would ever create an image or painting without erasing and redrawing, or changing creative direction a zillion times and not keep a record of the most important changes.
Enter the mystery of Chalkboard Art. Having never attempted it before (outside of a few forays in pastel drawing), I therefore know next to nothing about the creation process behind making art with chalk on a black chalkboard. However, for those who have eyes to see, the world seems awash in these beauties. I discover them in the most surprising spaces and delightful ways.
I recently started to archive a few of them and so I thought it would be nice to share each piece as great examples of dramatic imagery in a blog post series I call “Fantastic Chalk.” The way my imagination blooms into all kinds of evocative landscapes simply from looking at these images blows me away!
So, as I stumble upon these ephemeral treasures, I’ll try to share them. For now though, here’s one in a series discovered at the Wedge Table in Minneapolis, on a big, black announcement board, sharing community and co-op programs. At the time, I was munching on one of their fabulous Mayan bowls. Yum!
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Fantastic Chalk #2 – Peace Coffee is next in the series.
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Public Announcement: This blog post is part of a collection of 354+ posts from my original Wordpress blog "Dreaming Into Being" library. I've now retired and migrated it to “Wander & Paint,” my new blog post at the United Wanderlust art shop. As time allows, I will be reviewing, editing, condensing, updating and releasing a number of these blog posts but not all of them. Some posts require more precision surgery than others. I'll also probably be publishing new posts as the muse wills it and father time allows. This whole process may take a while but I think these blog post serve as great documentation of my process and reminds me of certain milestones. So, most of them will be made available again- at some point.
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