Hit the Ground Drawing

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Well it happened, or I should say its happening. After a five year vision, two years of hard work, we hit the ground drawing today. Lum Elementary School showed up in force, it seemed like all kids showed up at once! We circled up, said words of gratitude, and started to color in our salamander's right foot.

The kids were great, lots of parent support with AC Transit helping with busing.

One day down and ten more to go. Almost hard to believe it all, a big dream.

Something special happened after all the kids left, part of a huge rainbow appeared high in the sky, and then another one - this one a full circle around the sun. I thought it must be magic and that is was the colored chalk from the kids and the wind.

Zander Dog
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Memorial Day

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Memorial Day, remembering those who have died for our country so that we can be free. I was wondering this morning about remembering all the artists who have lived for our country and the world so that we can be free.


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Using a Grown Man as a Piece of Chalk

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OK, it's happening! Our permit is FINALLY complete. I chalk drew with over 750 elementary school kids over the last 3 days. We reworked our salamander drawing, it was looking too frog like, and yesterday we outlined it on site! We also got our large grant of $10,000 increased to $15,000!




OK, this is too much fun. That's me drawing using a grown man as a piece of chalk! I am pushing Clayton on a cart while he holds a large piece of chalk, and we go from point to point that the other folks have marked out for us. Too much fun!

Chalk and water rolled out for our initial outline - works really good!

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Drawing at Lum elementary school yesterday (and today). Windy, very rough playground, chalk disappeared quickly, great time for all.


Love those teacher's boots!

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Chalk Fools, Tests, and a New Sketch

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We have a new sketch and I took another photograph from the other building across the way, very cool to have a great camera view of it all.

Later a few men on the chalk team did a test with chalk, water, and rollers. We are thinking this will be a great way to handle our negative space (area around the creature, in this sketch it's black) and let the kids to inside the salamander.

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Circles of Creation

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Last week a painting of a large nude woman sold for 33 million dollars. That's a lot of money. One source said the United States Government has spent 443 billion dollars in the current wars. That's a lot of money. We just bought more chalk yesterday for $2,400. That's a lot of money and... a lot of chalk.
~M
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Remembering How to Get Home is to Be at Home

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Well we are having our site street cleaned tomorrow, not from the city, but from another connection, a company called Sweepercity.net is donating their services. Thank you!

This morning I presented to another elementary school, Ruby Bridges, got all 500ish kids in 3 assemblies which went really good. I can tell by how quiet it is. In the afternoon I had a quick chance to get into a middle school, good kids! Later in the grocery store a young man said, "I know you, you came to my high school last week and talked about a chalk drawing."

Things are coming together. It now feels like it is happening, we have already hit the ground and will be drawing shortly. It's a good ride!

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