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Pandemic chalk: The Seeker 3

Pandemic chalk: The Seeker 3

02 Oct 2022 1 44
For October 2022, our front walk features a chalk adaptation of Hannah Frank's "The Seeker" (1931). The trees will still get more texture later.
Pandemic chalk: The Seeker 2

Pandemic chalk: The Seeker 2

02 Oct 2022 1 35
For October 2022, our front walk features a chalk adaptation of Hannah Frank's "The Seeker" (1931). Fun figuring out how to translate a black-and-white print into colored chalk.
Pandemic chalk: The Seeker 1

Pandemic chalk: The Seeker 1

01 Oct 2022 1 32
For October 2022, our front walk features a chalk adaptation of Hannah Frank's "The Seeker" (1931). First sketches of the figure on grid, in charcoal.
Pandemic chalk: Six Sentinels

Pandemic chalk: Six Sentinels

24 Sep 2022 2 37
This chalk was slightly inspired by Yayoi Kusama, but I couldn't really get the dots pattern right, so the back sentinels are striped, and the checkerboard was just another pleasant repetitive thing to do.
Pandemic chalk: The Giantess (3)

Pandemic chalk: The Giantess (3)

28 Aug 2022 4 2 57
New chalk on our walk in late August 2022 is based on Leonora Carrington's "The Giantess" (1947).
Pandemic chalk: The Giantess (2)

Pandemic chalk: The Giantess (2)

27 Aug 2022 1 37
New chalk on our walk in late August 2022 is based on Leonora Carrington's "The Giantess" (1947).
Pandemic chalk: The Giantess (1)

Pandemic chalk: The Giantess (1)

27 Aug 2022 38
New chalk on our walk in late August 2022 is based on Leonora Carrington's "The Giantess" (1947).
Pandemic chalk: In-between moment

Pandemic chalk: In-between moment

07 Aug 2022 3 45
I just noticed this photo in my phone--it caught a moment in between two chalk drawings. The espresso cup was starting to cover over the portrait of a girl. I don't always remember to catch these transitions, but I love looking back at them.
Pandemic chalk: Espresso 2

Pandemic chalk: Espresso 2

12 Aug 2022 2 57
For the August chalk on our walk, I tried another 3D illusion--an espresso cup.
Pandemic chalk: Espresso 1

Pandemic chalk: Espresso 1

12 Aug 2022 47
For the August chalk on our walk, I tried another 3D illusion--an espresso cup.
Pandemic chalk: Girl in a Large Hat

Pandemic chalk: Girl in a Large Hat

14 Jul 2022 1 45
The newer square on our walk in July 2022, based on a Mary Cassatt pastel, "Girl in a Large Hat".
Pandemic chalk: two squares in July 2022

Pandemic chalk: two squares in July 2022

14 Jul 2022 51
Our front walk has two different chalk drawings in July 2022, one by me (top) and one by daughter (bottom).
Pandemic chalk: View of Mount Fuji 2

Pandemic chalk: View of Mount Fuji 2

16 Jun 2022 46
Daughter did most of this chalk, to announce that she'll be teaching English in Japan in the new school year.
Pandemic chalk: View of Mount Fuji 1

Pandemic chalk: View of Mount Fuji 1

15 Jun 2022 1 1 54
Daughter did most of this chalk, to announce that she'll be teaching English in Japan in the new school year.
Pandemic chalk: Porthole 3 (Graduation edition)

Pandemic chalk: Porthole 3 (Graduation edition)

15 May 2022 2 82
A chalk porthole in our sidewalk right now. A graduating manatee visited today. (Celebrating our daughter's college graduation event.)
Pandemic chalk: Porthole 2

Pandemic chalk: Porthole 2

06 May 2022 1 48
A chalk porthole in our sidewalk right now. A cephalopod swam past last week.
Pandemic chalk: Dragonfly

Pandemic chalk: Dragonfly

02 May 2022 3 1 52
I added a dragonfly to our walk last week, to celebrate a friend's thesis defense. (Her thesis was about dragonflies, of course.)
Pandemic chalk: Porthole 1

Pandemic chalk: Porthole 1

29 Apr 2022 2 1 56
There's a porthole in our front walk now. last week, there were jellyfish floating past.
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