Peter McClory - Street Painting (Chalk Drawing) in Florence, Italy
Street painting is an experience I recommend to anyone and everyone.
It is good exercise, most certainly gives you good practice at taking criticism.
It is also a great opportunity to work quickly, at a large scale and under pressure, because you have to wash and scub it all away before midnight (or you turn into a pumpkin… only kidding).
After spending several hours on your hands and knees in the street, on top of a large chalk drawing, it is likely that you may become a little dirty.
Below you can see the first of my street paintings on the road. I was of course doing it all legally, with an official “Madonnari” license in the centre of Florence on via Calimala, just off Della Republica.
For my first street painting I decided to rely more on my creativity than getting bogged-down with the technicalities of replicating famous portaits as precisely as possible.
