Ginnys Chalk Art

Chalk Art for Healing

Trinity Church Englewood Chalk Event

Saturday October 6, 2018

I was contacted early in the summer by a friend of my son, Pastor Brian, who is a pastor at Trinity Church. His church is a "store front" church in Englewood. He said that their church was going to be doing a chalk event to raise money for Opioid abuse. He asked me if I would be interested in helping out with the event. I said that I would help out.

Unfortunately I got so busy with moving that I had very little time to help. Fortunately the event was still organized without me. It ended up being mostly people from the church doing the chalk, with a lot of kids, doing the chalk art.

Since this event was for a Lutheran Church, I decided to create a picture of the Luther Rose in chalk.

Here is the finished product...

What follows is how it came about...

Arriving at Trinity Church

Pastor Brian and me before the event began.

The surface was less than perfect. But I got the chance to choose the best spot.

My design required me to draw a circle. Great big thanks to my husband for help drawing the circle.

My design and info about me.

My design is sketched out and I'm ready to begin!

Step one

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5

Basic design finished. Now to do the black outline.

With the black outline

Added the words and then all finished!

Looks pretty good. If I don't say so myself!

The next day, Sunday, we decided to go to church at Trinity Church. Here we are with Pastor Brian

My chalk art still looks pretty good the next day too!

Chalk the Block Easton 2018

September 29 & 30 2018

This was my third year to do Chalk the Block at Easton. It is the premier chalk event of the season. All the best chalk artists are there.

I had a hard time deciding what to do this year. I finally decided to do Fisher Price toys. I worked on a couple of different sketches of toys before deciding on the toy phone.

The week before the event I had a change of heart. It was the week of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. I, along with so many other women in the United States, watched them with stress and frustration. I was so upset by them that wished that I could do something!

Then I suddenly realized that I had a great platform to make a statement. I changed my mind about my art the day before the event and created a totally new drawing. I thought about it up to the last minute, but I decide to go ahead with it. I hoped that people would understand an appreciate my meaning.

I had so many good comments about my chalk art, particularly from women. I felt that I had done my job. It felt so good to have made my statement!

Here is the finished product...

What follows is how it came about...

Here are my two sketches. The one on the right was the one I was going to do. The one of the left was the one that I changed to.

Taped out an ready to begin!

Here is the camera that I bought with my grant money. I'm still having so much trouble with it. Still can't figure out how to use it. It died halfway through the day!