Faces of Volition

Psionic Blade

From the day of March 25, 2011

Momentary Eminence

3-17-11

Demimonde of Leaf and Water

Work from the day of 3-5-11.
20th and Valencia

Ong Crystal Sphere

3-4-11

Winter weather and time constraints have kept me from creating much chalk art lately. Having a few days off of work, I went down south to Monterey with my art partner, Stella. We spent a day in the vastness and silence of Big Sur, a welcome antidote to the stress of city life. To escape the low level fog, we drove up Naciemento-Ferguson road. Before heading back to the bay area, we had some time to draw a quick chalk star at the plaza next to the East Village Coffee Lounge in Monterey, at Washington and Pearl.

Solar Furnace and Skeletal Bloom

Drawing from the day of January 27, 2011.
After heading up to the Haight area in the early afternoon with my friend Chacon, I found that the drawing I was intending to finish had been washed away. This would've been day 3 of the constructed Emperor face.
I decided to change locations, and moved to the Buena Vista park area, a sort of tree-filled hillock on one side of Haight. There was some sidewalk with nice texture, and it was an excellent day to enjoy the sun. A lot of passersby enjoyed the work.
Having no plans laid out, I just went ahead with a 'dragon tail' type flower design. I did something new with this one, and drew the base of the flower coming up out of a skull. I have never rendered a skull in chalk before, and this was a style I'd been pondering.
It was nice to get slices of pizza after a good day of drawing, slices of vegetarian with artichoke and sun dried tomato and one with potato and garlic.

Emergent Emperor

Images from the day of January 25 at Haight and Stanyan. In the few hours of drawing I had before going to work, I finished most of the color fill. People kept asking me if he was a transformer. Robot Jesus? A polynesian transformer? Optimus prime? What?
Hoping to return there to finish it soon.