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The Essential Street Painter: Pastel Pavement Pictures for Everyone: Beginners Through Pros

by Rick Compton

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Beautify America All across the country, people are taking pastels to pavement, decorating the avenues with stunning images. Now, would-be artists who would like to literally paint the town red--and blue, yellow, green, and a rainbow of other colors--can find out how with this essential guide to street art. It's filled with basic tips, techniques, and designs for beginners who want to become part of this popular phenomenon, as well as blueprints that pros can use to create the ultimate street painting: The Emerging Elvis. In addition to suggestions for finding good locations to work and examples of the very best street art around, the kit includes a set of quality chalk pastels, the street painter's preferred medium. And for those who'd like to go beyond their own hometown, there's a list of websites for street art festivals throughout the U.S.

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Tips and techniques for anyone interested in the popular phenomena of street art painting. Beginners will find basic techniques and inforamtion, pros will find a blueprint for creating the ultimate street art painting: The Emerging Elvis. Also includes websites for street art festivals around the country.
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About the Author

Rick Compton  is an award-winning freelance magazine writer working in business and humor. As a freelance writer he has won six Florida Magazine Association awards. He has also received a special commendation from the Florida State Legislature for an article on the state of tourism industry.

 

Rick owns and franchises Via Colori, a street painting festival held annually in cities across the United States, which raises hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for a variety of important social causes.

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ISBN:
9781604330595
Subtitle:
Pastel Pavement Pictures for Everyone: Beginners Through Pros [With 8 Environmentally-Safe Chalk Pastels]
Author:
Compton, Rick
Publisher:
Applesauce Press
Subject:
General
Subject:
Art - General
Subject:
Art - Techniques
Publication Date:
May 2009
Binding:
Spiral
Grade Level:
Children/juvenile
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
52
Dimensions:
10.5 x 6 in
Age Level:
09-12
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