Artfest Ft Myers 2015

Each year this gets bigger and better! I was one of the professional chalk artists at ArtFest Ft Myer's for the third year! We instructed and judged 30 teams of high school student's while completing a sponsor piece (thank you Truy Nolen) and our own. The student work is just so amazing. This year my co-professional artists were Charfade, Nate Barronowski, BK Lyons, and Ron Hawkins.

My finished piece, following the theme of "Bugs on Vacation" features an Ant with a camera and a trail of bugs following him out of a suitcase. It was around 7x7.

As always, the next day I came back and was challenged to do another 3D bug like I did my spider last year.

Here are a few pictures from that weekend:

P!nk has me on her page!

So this was pretty exciting for me, as P!nk is my all time favorite singer! It definitely made my day when my sister shared it and tagged me - then watching all of the numbers grow over the next few weeks.

Who is that guy? My Dad. It made for some hilarious comments though - is that guy Chelsey? Is this P1nk or Chelsey? WHAT IS GOING ON! - haha.

If you want to check it out here is a direct link. This piece won best in show at the Uptown Art Expo in 2014.

Patient Appreciation Day with Olaf!

Last Saturday I went to my Chiropractic office and freehanded a 3D Olaf from the Movie Frozen to help out with their Christmas themed Patient Appreciation Day!

The Family Center for Chiropractic is an awesome place where I have been going for over a year now, and now I have my husband going as well! I have never felt better and look forward to get adjusted. If you don't know much about chiropractic work I suggest you go in and attend one of their free Tuesday night wellness classes.

 

Now, OLAF! He took about an hour and a half.

Artworks Eau Gallie November 2014

A lot of last minute planning was done to make the annual Artworks Festival great for everyone, we had some rainy weather to deal with but all in all it was a good day.

As I am the chalk coordinator for this festival I don't put much into my own piece since I have to run around and make sure everyone is hydrated and happy. I did however do a quick small piece based of of a Selina Fenech piece. It in no way does her art justice, but I was working from memory...

I don't know how long he took, maybe 45 minutes.

Silver Springs November 2014

 Silver Springs was great! It was a very small event, as one of the biggest chalk festivals took place that weekend as well, but I had a blast here with a small group of just 4 artists. We were sitting in the beautiful park, chalking at our leisure, and enjoying the weather. The surface was great and we had an overhang on the sidewalk (no sun!). So it was amazing, not to mention how well we were treated by the organizers.... needless to say I am excited to go back.

 My first day I came late, did my dog Harley in about 2 hours then started on the other dogs the second day, about 1 dog every 15-30 minutes. So I have to estimate about 8 hours total (if that).

Who are these other dogs? Some are related, some belong to portrait clients, some are for the other artists, and some are friends with my dog Harley on instagram - @harleythehusky

Marietta ChalkFest in Georgia 2014

This past weekend I was at my favorite festival of the year – Marietta ChalkFest! They expanded a bit from last year so there was a huge selection of artists from all over. It is always great to make new friends and catch up with the ones you don’t get to see that often. I have never met a group of people with so much energy and passion, it is so uplifting.

Marietta is my favorite festival for many reasons, but how we are treated and organization are the two big ones. The people that put together the festival really go out of their way to make sure you feel welcome, are comfortable, and to let you know that you are appreciated. With each visit my Husband and I are just more and more determined that Georgia is where we need to be. Enough praise just cannot be given to the organizers for their organization. They really had thought of everything – we had tarp’s lining the street so we could all cover for rain as a group, guys with leaf blowers to move the rain off the plastic, and even hand washing stations! It was incredible.

It was a Halloween themed festival this year so I decided to do a Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) piece. It was 10x10ft and took about 12 hours, although that is just a guess since there were lots of rain delays. And my sponsor was Resurgens Orthopaedics, which I decided to incorporate into the piece instead of just below.

Family Days Festival in Port Orange, FL - 2014

This past weekend I was at Family Days Festival in Port Orange, FL for their 15th annual chalk festival. The chalk portion is hosted by Arthaus a great non-profit that runs art classes and event's in the area. I havn't done this festival since 2012 so it was great to come back, it is a beautiful festival with lots of shade and designated chalking space (so fewer people walk on your work).

I did my new twin nieces, Nylah and Sophia, they were about 8 months in my reference picture.

 

5x5 ft, 6 hours

Presidents Award