Sidewalk chalk

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Sidewalk chalk is typically large and thick sticks of chalk made of calcium sulfate (gypsum), instead of calcium carbonate (rock chalk). It comes in multiple colors and is mostly used for drawing on pavement or concrete , frequently four square courts or hopscotch boards. Blackboard chalk, typically used in educational settings, is shorter and thinner than sidewalk chalk.

There are several different types of sidewalk chalk, typically coming in solid-colored sticks. 3-D sidewalk chalk sets, in which each stick of chalk is created with two particular colors that appear 3-dimensional when viewed through the 3-D glasses that come with the chalk, also exist.3-D sidewalk chalk. (2008). Scholastic Parent & Child, 16(2), 14.

Sidewalk chalk can be cheaply homemade from water, paint and plaster of Paris.Make your own sidewalk chalk. (1998, July 21). Christian Science Monitor. 13.

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Use Sidewalk chalk is used at some universities to advertise for events, especially where there is much concrete. Prohibitions are set for where students can chalk, usually limiting it to areas that will be washed away with rain, or areas which are set to be cleaned of chalk markings.

Some teachers promote use of sidewalk chalk on a carpet as an interactive teaching tool.Davenport, J. (2007). Classroom essentials. Teacher Magazine, 18(4), 16.

Although sidewalk chalk is created to allow people to draw on sidewalks or pavement, some law enforcement agencies may prohibit sidewalk drawing in certain areas without first being requested for authorization.Boretz, A., & Beever, J. (2010). Where the sidewalk ends. Publishers Weekly, 257(41), 34.

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Events On September 16–17, 2006, a global event was held to promote peace through sidewalk chalk drawings.Prest, M. J. (2006). Drawn together. Chronicle Of Philanthropy, 18(23), 1. Chalk4Peace was a project planned by an artist from Arlington, Virginia named John Aaron, who asked children and teens from the age of eight to age eighteen to participate in groups across the world to draw chalk that would illustrate peace for one of the Chalk4Peace events. Designated areas on sidewalks, pavement, and concrete were used for the participants to draw on while volunteers took pictures of the . Aaron used his own money and donations to provide sidewalk chalk to areas of the world that he believed did not have access to good quality chalk.

There are many for chalk , including the Pavement Art Competition in the Bold Street Festival in Liverpool in 2010.

The largest sidewalk chalk festival in the world is the Pasadena Chalk Festival, held annually in Pasadena, California.Day, Brian (June 20, 2015). World's largest chalk art festival draws a crowd in Pasadena. Pasadena Star-News. Retrieved August 21, 2016. The 2010 edition involved about six hundred artists of all ages and skills and attracted more than 100,000 visitors.Day, Brian (June 20, 2010). Pasadena Chalk Festival called the world's largest street-art festival. Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved August 22, 2016.

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Art

such as Kurt Wenner, Ellis Gallagher and Julian Beever have created intricate and realistic using the chalk and pastels. It is typical for sidewalk chalk to use anamorphosis drawing when drawing with sidewalk chalk. Nonanamorphic drawing are drawings that are drawn to be observed face-on, whereas anamorphosis drawings are drawn to be observed from a different viewpoint. Julian Beever, in a Q&A with Adam Boretz, explained his drawing of his first anamorphosis sidewalk chalk drawing, Swimming Pool:

Sidewalk Sam was well known in the Boston area for his reproductions of European masterpieces, chalked or painted on the sidewalk."In Boston, There Is A Danger of Stepping On, Say A Rembrandt," by Laird Hart, The Wall Street Journal, July 17, 1974, page 1.

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External links

• Busker Alley - videos of sidewalk artists with chalks and paints
• Gallery of sidewalk chalk art drawn by children
• Drawing on Earth World's Largest Chalk Drawing
• Pasadena Chalk Festival-official site

Categories: Visual Arts Materials, Writing Implements, Pavement Art, Chalk

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