Cedar Point Sprots Force Parks July 2019

Sports Force Parks @ Cedar Point

July 5, 2019

I had a fantastic opportunity to chalk at the Sports Force Park @ Cedar Point last Friday July 5. 

The theme for our artwork was to be something about baseball. I knew that I wanted use the All American Professional Girls Baseball League in my artwork. I did some research and decide to use some pictures that I found of Dorothy Kamenshek one of the players of the league. I discovered that she was born the same year as my mother (1925) in Cincinnati Ohio and played for the league for 10 years and retired after an injury and went on to become a physical therapist. She died in 2010 in California. 

We started at 8:30 am that morning and worked through the day. I would have finished just after lunch, but it decided to rain! Then I had to fix my chalk art and didn't get finished until about 4. 

Except for the heat and the rain, it was hands down the best chalking experience that I've had and the best paid too! Not only did we get paid to do our chalk art, but we also received complementary tickets to both the Sports Force Park and Cedar Point as well as our hotel and food for the day of chalking. They also supplied tents to cover us from the sun and the rain. Hope they ask us to come again!

My chalk artwork came out great, even though I had to fix it up after the short rain storm that we had in the middle of the day.

  I did some research and found the logo for the league.

I decided to use Dorothy Kamenshek as my subject. 

The night before the event!

 I'm ready to begin!

 The Sketch: I ran out of room for all the words. It should say: "All American Girls Professional Baseball League" but I didn't have enough room so I shortened it to "All American Girls Baseball League. Hope no one noticed!

 Step one...

 Step two!

 Step 3

 Step 4

 Step 4

 Step 5

 Almost finished!

 It was almost finished when the storm clouds started to roll in. I took a picture just before we covered it.

 Ready for the rain!

 After the Rain. The cover did pretty good, except that some of the water pooled under the plastic

 Funny thing there was an imprint of my artwork on the plastic. I was thinking of keeping it but I wasn't sure what I would do with it!

 The artwork and the plastic after the rain!

 All finished after the rain fixes!

 Done!

 All finished!

 Here is our chalking group for the day, minus one!

 Went back later that evening to take more pictures and it was still looking good!

 Had early entry passes for the next day at Cedar Point. It was great to miss some of crowds!

 We had a great (hot) day at Cedar Point!

 The perks of chalking!

 I received 2 five day passes to Cedar Point, but all we could do was one day. Especially after I did chalking the day before! The heat was the worst! But it was the best chalking experience yet!

Miamisburg Springfest 2019

May 2019: Miamisburg Springfest

Finally getting around to posting picture from my first event of 2019: Miamisburg Spring Fest. I decided to do my first interactive chalk art. It was on 6'X6' so it went pretty quickly. Good thing, because it turned out the be the first really hot day of the year! By noon I was done in!

Getting started!

 

 

 So many people tried it!

I think it turned out just great!

Cedar Point next...stay tuned!

Chalk the Block Cincinnati

Chalk the Block

Cincinnati at Liberty Center

October 13, 2018

Last chalk event of the season was another Chalk the Block in Cincinnati at Liberty Center. It was actually not all the way to Cincinnati. Since we were already living in Dayton it was only 20 min away. What a difference from the weekend before it was about 40 degrees that morning!

I decided to do the Fisher Price toy design that I had planned for the week before. 

This week I had a deadline, because I needed to make it to my cousin Nelda's 80th birthday party that afternoon. So I got there early and was the first to finish.

My phone died halfway through the morning so I was unable to finish taking more process photos. My new camera also died. I still need to figure out how to use that camera!

I was able to finish up early and we did make it to Nelda's party.

 Here is the finished product...

Here is how it came about...

                                                                   Ready to begin!

 The sketch

 Coloring in the sketch

 More color

Looking good. Need to work on the details yet.

 All finished! The first one finished.

 Look pretty good!

All finished. Time for lunch and then off to my cousin's Nelda's 80th birthday party. Stopped to buy Nelda a Birthday Bear at Build a Bear with the gift card that I got for doing my chalk art. We arrived at her party just in time to visit a little and help with clean up! She was so happy to see us, because I had told her that we wouldn't be able to make it. But we did!