Hyde Park - 2014

For this year's Hyde Park I decided to do a rather ambitious piece belonging to Josephine Wall entitled "Iris Keep if the Rainbow" - I highly encourage you to check out her amazing art at www.josephinewall.co.uk/

This piece was 10x10 ft and took about 9 hours to create over the course of two day's. Another Chalk Artist (BK Lyons) was nice enough to take a picture of it with a fish eye lense, so I have a pretty cool shot.

My time lapse died toward the end of the first day and I didn't get a chance to reset up, but it is still pretty cool:

AND.......... I won an award of merit! It has been a while so I was pretty happy :)

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HiMSS 2014 – Intermountain Healthcare Exhibit

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of taking part in Intermountain Healthcare’s exhibit at the 2014 HiMSS, the industry's largest health IT educational program and exhibition center. Intermountain Healthcare is a non-profit healthcare system located in Utah who was rolling out some pretty amazing technology, specifically a real time 3D video camera and screen.

 I was on location in Orlando for 4 day’s creating live art for the people passing by, highlighting some of Intermountain’s core ideal’s and new technology’s.

Sunday I did this first piece in about 4 hours, which was to help demonstrate how the 3D technology was bringing new life to healthcare possibilities. It was later turned into a sign to help draw attention to the 3D features that were on display at the booth.

Now, setbacks happen, so the first half of Monday I fixed up some crazy footprint work on the above piece and started in on my second piece – a girl “rising above” healthcare. She is depicted leaving the hospital room below and coming up to join us on the main exhibit floor. Thank you to SenshiStock for always have amazing stock I can reference for all my unique perspectives.

 

Tuesday I finished the girl and started on the largest piece (4x6ft) of the week, a scene depicting what was being displayed inside of the RV – camera’s were placed on top of an NICU unit allowing the doctor to view the baby from his tablet at any location, thus monitoring her improvement in real time and with real high quality video imagery. Forgot the doctor side for a second, and just think of how amazing it would be to be that close to your baby in hard times like that were they are unreachable.

Wednesday I finished this piece up and then explored the main floor a bit. It was amazing to see all of these great companies networking and displaying things I didn’t even know existed. The two smaller pieces were 4x4, the largest 4x6 and all took 4-6 hours each.

Looking ahead...

Keep an eye out- soon I will be doing a video workshop for first time artists, a chalk review, special time lapses, and other fun things!

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Artfest Ft Myers 2014

This past weekend I was one of the professional chalk artists at ArtFest Ft Myer's for the second year! We instruct and judge 14 teams of high school student's while completing a sponsor piece (thank you Truy Nolen) and our own. It is always super tough because the students do such amazing work and we can never agree on just who is the top. This year the other very talented professional artists were Charfade, Lee Jones, BK Lyons, and Ron Hawkins.

My finished piece, which I like to call "DIY", was inspired by Alice in Wonderland's Absinthe the caterpillar. Size was about 7x7 and took a little over 5 hours to complete.

Then on Sunday I came back and did a 1x2ft spider, about 30 minutes, just for some added fun!

Some extra photo's from this weekend:

Photo credit for some of these go to Charfade, who also did the ant. We all shared work on the sponsor piece.

2014 Festival List

Just a quick update with a list of 2014 Street Festivals I am planning on attending this year!

 Now, these are just the festival’s that have confirmed dates, I will probably have an updated fall last toward the end of summer. If you would like me to participate in your festival or event please email me at cscottdraw@gmail.com

January 31-February 2 ArtFest Chalk Art Experience - Fort Myers, FL
http://www.artfestfortmyers.com/art-fun-for-the-whole-family/chalk-art/

March 15-16 Hyde Park Chalk Walk - Tampa, FL
www.tbbca.org

March 22-23 Bloom'n Chalk Fest - Safety Harbor, FL
www.bloomnchalkfest.com

March 29 Uptown Art Expo – Altamonte, FL
http://www.uptownartexpo.com/

April 5 Spring Fever in the Garden - Winter Garden, FL
www.springfeveringarden.com

May 3-4 Paseo Pastel - St. Augustine, FL
www.staugustinechalkwalk.com

October 10-12 Marietta Chalk Festival – Marietta, GA
http://www.mariettachalkfest.com/

2013 quick recap!

Another Chalk season is over for me! I am ready for my two month break before I start back up in 2014.... But to recap:

2013 Festivals I attended (not including private events):

• Jan 31-Feb 3 Ft Myers ArtFest
• Feb 16-17 Altamonte Uptown Art Expo
• March 22-23 St Augustine Paseo Pastel
• April 13 Winter Garden Spring Fever
• Aug 30-Sept 1 Marietta Chalk Fest
• Oct 4-6 Limited Time Magic Disney Chalk Festival
• Oct 25-27 Clearwater Chalk Festival 
• Nov 8-10 Disney Festival of the Masters
• Nov 23 - Melbourne ArtWorks

I had a great time at these and hope to attend even more in 2014, its going to be a busy beautiful year as I plan on chalking fantasy themed work all year - just to get back to focusing on what I enjoy, beautiful colorful art. My main goal for 2014 is to place at a festival with more than 50 artists so that I can become a Master. I would also like to do a 3D piece and set up my timelapse for each piece I do.... I will also be featured in a Daytona College production called "CreARTivity" (more info coming soon). Although before all of this happens I need to take inventory and restock on some colors!

I will be posting my  2014 schedule as I make it on the side bar - if you would like me to attend your event please get in contact ASAP, cscottdraw@gmail.com

Artworks Eau Gallie - 2013

Just finished Artwork's Eau Gallie Chalk Block, by very first event as a coordinator. I would like to think it was a success, although I have more idea's for next year :)

I would like to thank all of the artists who participated, especially my explosion of Westshore student's who showed up and did great work. I would also like to thank my judge, Sandy Johnson for volunteering on such short notice.

THANK YOU TO MY SPONSORS!
The Highland Mint, Waterline Marina, Eau Gallie Woodworking, Let the Girl's do it Cleaning, Eau Gallie Ace Hardware, and Premiere Oaks Theater.

My piece from today was a rendition of the Capricorn Zodiac by Kagaya, he does amazing work so I suggest you go check them out :)

 

Size: 4x4.5

Time: 5 hours (give or take, I was running around alot)

I also took alot of images throughout the day, feel free to check them out: 

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