Mom at the Tahoe Arts Festival

[kevin_standlee]

A few days ago, my mother sent this story and photos about her appearance at the Tahoe Arts Festival, July 7 & 8, 2007. I liked it so much I asked and received her permission to share it here.

This is my project at the Tahoe Arts Festival, July 7 & 8, in the parking lot of the Cal-Neva Casino in Crystal Bay, North Shore Lake Tahoe. We get $150.00 off of the cost of our craft booth by doing a chalk drawing. I have always done a 4 x 6 foot drawing but this year I had to fill a 7 x 7 foot space.


I started by framing it down to a space with which I felt more comfortable.


Next came the "God's Eye" and Leaves. After working about nine hours all I had done was a "God's Eye", the sky , and some more of the framing.


I started at AM on day two. I was so disappointed that my leaves were not in enough contrast to the sky to show up well that I thought I had no chance to win a prize. I took second place with the "Tree Lady" drawing (4x6) two years ago and I really wanted to win again.


To my surprise I did win. I took first place in the 7x7 category and won $100.00. How cool is that? I'm sunburned and sore but I won.

Yay for Mom!

Comments

[wild-patience.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's amazing. I had no idea you came from artistic stock.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Mom is great. And smart, too. (Sometimes she even reads this LJ. Hi, Mom! *waves*)

I'm all thumbs drawing, personally. Her mother -- with whom me and my sister lived after my parents divorced when I was five years old -- also did some landscape water colors paintings for which I made the frames when I was in high school wood shop. And she also knitted some afghans that still are on my bed to this day.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

Good for her! It is Gorgeous!

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

That's lovely work. :-) She sounds like a cool lady.

[dinogrl.livejournal.com]

Chalk on a smooth surface is challenging enough, but on asphalt-and on a hot sunny day, wow! That is an amazing piece of work. Your mother is extremely talented!

[eackerman.livejournal.com]

Amazing work. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[lobolance.livejournal.com]

yea your mom!

mine does art quilts and painting. it's so cool to be able to honestly love parental work. :-)

[nitroace.livejournal.com]

That is really very cool. What a great piece of chalk art. Thanks for sharing it with us. Such detail with chalk is really amazing.

[bindyree.livejournal.com]

Hey, in case I never got around to saying this to her or to you, D. was the coolest mother-in-law I almost had!