Chalk Festival

One of the first to set up!

The Luna Park Chalk Festival was a lot of fun. Getting up before sunrise was not fun. Crow and I wound up being the first vendors to check in at registration (at least I think so).

Our first booth!

Russell (Guest Artist on our site) came to help us set up, but had to hurry to the city for a coffee date.

Ready for business.

My mom stopped by too with donuts, coffee and hot chocolate.









We walked around together to admire the art. I saw some great pieces; however did not take many photos of the illustrations as I, in retrospect, should have. I meant to wait until they were finished. For some that was never to be.

Greek myth comes to life...

As Medusa takes Cerberus for a walk???

Dralion

Picture the Alien

A lovely fairy

The first two hours the park was crowded with lots of potential for sales as a multitude of people came to browse the artwork and poke through the numerous stalls. The performance stage rotated through two bands and a good time was had by all. After the second hour - just around noon - the weather shifted dramatically. Little Owl (Guest Artist) stopped by briefly to admire the stall. Her husband spirited her away shortly after the rain started. Of course most of the vendors packed up as soon as it began to rain and all but one of the chalk artists were washed away.

And then the rain came....

The vendors and chalk art washed away...

It rained buckets, near "monsoon weather" as Crow put it. It is a good thing we bought two tarps to cover our canopy's frame! When the rain started, we set the shop up differently to keep the rain off the merchandise as much as possible (not that it worked, everything was soaked or splattered  by the end). With a make-shift 'back room' in place, we were ready for business again.

Everyone packed up.

Coyote's Blessings - one of the last vendors standing.

 The rain caused some interesting patterns in the chalk art, and some unintended beauties.

Reflection

This shot was not posed.

The rain wound up being a boon for us. When the weather started getting rough, would be patrons and passerbys took shelter under our tarp. While they waited for the rain storm to pass, they browsed and so we made more sales after the rains started than before.

Stall set up part III.

 Crow and I stuck it out until the end and were one of two vendors standing. We wound up being the last stall to close up.

Everyone's gone! The only other vendor is on the other side of the tennis courts (you can see the courts' edge on the right side of the picture).

Thanks goes to Tina for the use of her magnet boards, key chain stand and window! Thanks to my mom for loaning us TV trays to create one of our tables. And of course, thanks goes to the Luna Park Art Foundation for hosting the festival! We are looking forward to next year.