San Rafael Street Painting (June 06)

For some reason, I just thought this painting was hilarious. I have a photoshopped version somewhere, but for now, this is the one online. It's a "Monster Pet Store" Get it? 8-)

For a guy that had very little actually drawn, he was seriously "looking the part" all afternoon

Most of the artists use a scale grid approach to tranform smaller pictures onto bigger workspaces. This was one where you can see the grid.

I wish (1) I had a ladder for this one and (2) I was there on Sunday. This painting was stunning in person.

Some people were really organized.

Some people were not very organized. I thought about photoshopping this to make the colors more vibrant, but they were actually this color! Blah...

Nearly complete, this was a really nice one.

The "master" for this one was a regular picture. The artist went with the series of triangles on her own. Is there a name for this technique... probably.

Nearly everyone drawing was filthy all over from the chalk and asphalt.

I'm pretty sure this guy was painting his family members as Pez dispensers.

I didn't quite get the meaning of this painting, but it was huge and powerful in person. You kinda get a sense of the size of it from the guy in the background.

Tough to get a good angle on this one, but it was also a really nice painting.

For $10, kids got a full kit anda 2x2 square for their own drawing. It was pretty neat.