Bloom N Garden N Chalk Fest

Jennifer & Carmen participated in the first Bloom N Garden N Chalk Fest in Safety Harbor, Florida over the weekend of March 28th and 29th. We got started around 8am, and put down a layer of white tempera paint on the sidewalk. It was the first time we officially had to work on the sidewalk. We had two spots next to each other in front of the local art gallery shop.


Saturday was pretty warm and very windy. We each had a 4.5' x 8' space. Carmen did a reproduction of a Bougereau and I did a piece by Jim Warren titled "Awkward Age".

Sunday morning we got heavy showers. We all covered our pieces with plastic and duct tape fairly well. We decided to uncover them to let them start drying out around 8am, but then another bunch of showers came and washed some of us out.

We just had time to lay a new piece of plastic over Carmen's piece, but mine was sacrificed. Around 11am, we saw blue skies and decided to see how quickly we could recover. They moved the judging back an hour to 3pm, so we all hunkered down and got to work.

2009 Lake Worth Street Painting Festival

Jennifer & Carmen get started. This year, our template was too small, so we used a grid method to map out the painting. We did "The Nut Gatherers" by Bouguereau. We started actually "painting" around 10am on Saturday. We usually start with the faces first and then work outward.

Carmen works on the folds of the dress, while lots & lots of people strolled by. The weather was the best we've had in a long time - cool, a little breeze, and NO RAIN!

Done! We finished around 3pm on Sunday.