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'Liberty Tree' : An 3D chalk exhibition work honoring our Veterans and Service people at the Sarasota Chalk Festival 2014

Art for After Hours is pleased and honored to present ‘Liberty Tree’ a 3D illusionary design by internationally recognized 3D 4D Chalk Artist Anthony Cappetto and the team of Wendy Stum and new team member Holland Waters Winslow.

In the spirit of the historic theme of the Liberty Tree in which the famous quotation by Thomas Jefferson stated:

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

We intend to ignore the tyrants completely.  We strive to honor and respect our patriots fully and completely in this artwork which will measure 15 by 30 feet in size.

Upon completion of our piece, we invite those who have are serving, have served, or those who have loved ones who gave their lives for this country to chalk their names on the leaves of the Liberty Tree.

When we run out of leaves, people can write those names at the base of the artwork as well.

Art for After Hours, founded in 2001 by Anthony Cappetto, an internationally known 3D 4D Chalk Artist and Wendy Stum has been honored to bring exhibition class 3D illusionary designs to the Sarasota Chalk Festival since 2010.

 

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are co-founders of Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc. a 3D 4D street painting art media and services company founded in 2007; bloggers for 'Blog Now on streetpainting.tv'.  Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized 3D 4D chalk artist and the founder of Art for After Hours, the first commercial 3d street painting art company bringing the 3D chalk art form to corporate and exhibition clients worldwide since 2001.

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3D/AR Chalk Artist Anthony Cappetto's Experience in Montevideo, Uruguay

Hello to our Blog Now on streetpainting.tv readers!

I just got back from a week of bringing the concepts of 3D chalk art to students and faculty at the Universidad de La Republica in Montevideo, Uruguay.  The experience was great!

Here I am sitting on the stone bridge of my 3D chalk art demonstration piece that I did for our group exhibition.  We're indoors as (for our northern hemisphere readers) its the closing of winter here and the temperature and the forecast for intermittent rain played a big factor in location.

I gave a lecture and hands on workshops to a very interested and talented group of students and faculty, eager to learn and grow their appreciation and experience in creating their 3D chalk art works.

Here are some examples of the first 3D chalk art works:

The students did a great job coming up with conceptual, engaging pieces with a small work size and shorter time to finish them!  Lots more 3D chalk art from Uruguay to come!

Here are some photos interacting on my 3D chalk piece - Enjoy!

The class picture:  Here we are interacting with the 3D chalk art - some (left) interacting more than others... :D!  I had a great time working with everyone at the Universidad.  A special thanks to the US Embassy in Montevideo, the Espacio Arte Contemporaneo, Infantozzi, and my friends at the Universidad de la Republica.  Looking forward to coming back to Uruguay soon!

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are bloggers at Blog Now on streetpainting.tv, a street painting art themed blog reaching out to street painting (chalk) artists, festival directors, and fans throughout the world with posts presented in a journalistic fashion.  Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is part of the street painting/chalk art media company Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc. founded in 2007 by Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum to bring 3D/AR chalk art festivals and media to the new generation of artists, festival directors and fans worldwide.

3D/AR chalk art and street art murals by Anthony Cappetto and Shawn McCann at Techfest 2012 - Mumbai, India

(Above) Anthony Cappetto posing with the just finished 'Cityscape' 3D chalk art at IIT Bombay's Techfest 2012 in Mumbai, India.  Look how bright the colors are when completed! You can also see binary code raining from the sky over the cityscape.

During the Holiday Season (New Year's), Shawn McCann and I (Anthony Cappetto) were invited to share our art with the 80,000 attendees of IIT Bombays Techfest 2012 in Mumbai, India.  We were both excited about the event and here is what we did:

Here is Shawn (above), posing proudly with the main wall (detail) he designed for Techfest, highlighting the IIT Bombay robot mascot in a 3D space.  Check out the world in binary code and a futuristic vehicle bursting through the 'Techfest'!

Anthony Cappetto (left of center) leading a group of IIT Bombay students in a 'chase' of the IIT Bombay Mascot over his newest 3D chalk art/animated AR piece 'Cityscape'. 

As blending 3D Chalk/AR art is a new way of combining traditional art and emerging technology is stll quite new, students at IIT Bombay were very excited to see this new art form.  Several hundred students posed and interacted in pictures with the mascot as well as animated birds which was great to do through Techfest 2012 over the three day event.

Meanwhile on the other side of the area, Shawn stops for a picture with the second wall mural !

It was great for us to do this unique project allowing us to bring our art works to the students at Techfest 2012 and hope to do so again in the future.  We took a moment to pose in front of this terrific mural that Shawn (at right) created here in Mumbai.

 

3D/AR chalk art and street art murals by Anthony Cappetto and Shawn McCann at Techfest 2012 - Mumbai, India

(Above) Anthony Cappetto posing with the just finished 'Cityscape' 3D chalk art at IIT Bombay's Techfest 2012 in Mumbai, India.  Look how bright the colors are when completed! You can also see binary code raining from the sky over the cityscape.

During the Holiday Season (New Year's), Shawn McCann and I (Anthony Cappetto) were invited to share our art with the 80,000 attendees of IIT Bombays Techfest 2012 in Mumbai, India.  We were both excited about the event and here is what we did:

Here is Shawn (above), posing proudly with the main wall (detail) he designed for Techfest, highlighting the IIT Bombay robot mascot in a 3D space.  Check out the world in binary code and a futuristic vehicle bursting through the 'Techfest'!

Anthony Cappetto (left of center) leading a group of IIT Bombay students in a 'chase' of the IIT Bombay Mascot over his newest 3D chalk art/animated AR piece 'Cityscape'. 

As blending 3D Chalk/AR art is a new way of combining traditional art and emerging technology is stll quite new, students at IIT Bombay were very excited to see this new art form.  Several hundred students posed and interacted in pictures with the mascot as well as animated birds which was great to do through Techfest 2012 over the three day event.

Meanwhile on the other side of the area, Shawn stops for a picture with the second wall mural !

It was great for us to do this unique project allowing us to bring our art works to the students at Techfest 2012 and hope to do so again in the future.  We took a moment to pose in front of this terrific mural that Shawn (at right) created here in Mumbai.

 

Happy New Year 2012: What we will be doing and our plans for our readers...

Above:  Here is a picture of Wendy and I, founders of Innovative Street Painting Group (which produces this blog) with our longtime street painting art friends Rosa Maria Leal and Cuong Nguyen at the Festival Bella Via in Monterrey, Mexico in October, 2011.  I (Anthony Cappetto)am at the far left, Rosa Maria, Wendy Stum, and Cuong Nguyen.  

Happy New Year 2012 from Blog Now on streetpainting.tv!!!

That being said, now on to where Blog Now will be going this year in 2012...

 

Wendy and I wish to apologize to our readers for being quiet during the last part of 2011.  We admit that we have been very involved with a series of street painting art projects with our other company, Art for After Hours which has kept us particulary busy.  While we were in the midst of these activities, we gave serious thought as to how we wanted to make Blog Now even better and more engaging than we have had before. And this is what we are thinking...

Starting this week, Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is moving to posting daily with posts, discussion, and thoughts about street painting art, festivals, and observed developments which we see as our way of sharing our appreciation and attention relevant to a blog such as ours that is "..for artists, festivals, and fans..."

Watch very soon for Blog Nows posting on the winners at the Festival Bella Via 2011, but also short posts about the many artists who created work for the festival who are the backbone of such exciting international street painting art competitions such as this.

There will also be similar coverage short posts from events that we have attended  in Saarasota, FL as well as events coming up this year in the USA, Mexico, and Europe through local reporters on the scene, and of course our level, journalistic coverage of festival directors and industry professionals in all locations.

Pictured above:  We noticed this street painting at the Sarasota Chalk Festival and we recalled the life of Toto de Angelis (Straccetto) who left us in 2011.  His experience as a Madonnaro in the true sense is an inspiration to every one of us who all who street paint, chalk, screeve anywhere in the world today.

Have a very Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year from Wendy and I at Blog Now on streetpainting.tv.

Anthony Cappetto Large 3D Street Painting at Barefoot in the Park, Duluth, GA, May 2011

 
Hi from Duluth, GA, where I was able to bring 3D street painting to the visitors to the Barefoot in the Park Arts Festival this May as the featured 3D street painting artist.  I had a great time creating the art and getting to know everyone during the weekend.

 

The concept was to create a scene overlooking the Duluth area, with a grand waterfall at the left, a rock wall in the distance, and a cliff at the right.  The 3D street painting was 16 feet wide at the top by 30 feet long and took me 2 and a half days to create.

Featured above are the organizers of Barefoot in the Park and I am in black at the top center.

I had a great time and look forward to street painting again soon!

'Through to the Pacific' 3D Street Painting with Michael Macaulay & Anthony Cappetto

Anthony Cappetto (left) and Michael Macaulay (right) were asked to street paint 'Through to the Pacific' as a 15' x 20' 3D street painting exhibition piece in Springfield, MA.  The original 'Through to the Pacific' is a small lithograph by Currier & Ives (1870), only 12 inches x 15 inches in size, and was on display at the Springfield Musuems during the course of the street painting exhibition.

Below is the original lithograph of 'Through to the Pacific' so you can see what the artists changed and what stayed the same!

Other than the huge size difference,the most noticeable difference is the train coming out of the picture, but every detail had to be drawn anamorphically to be in the correct perspective and go with the train.  The finished work is in a wooden (chalk) frame and appears to be popping up instead of laying flat.  Here are some photos of the guys working on their 3D street painting.  The art work was well received by the public, who really enjoyed seeing the two different versions of 'Through to the Pacific'.

Michael Macaulay holds up the train as it comes out of the picture.

 
A closer look at the train and surrounding details.

 
Anthony is shown working on a section of mountains.

Michael is adding detail to the left side of the street painting.

 Anthony adds the title of the 3D street painting 'Through to the Pacific'.

'Through to the Pacific' 3D street painting by Michael Macaulay and Anthony Cappetto.  Original lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1870.

 

New Video of the 2010 Sarasota International Chalk Festival

Check out all of the wonderful artists who participated in the Sarasota International Chalk Festival in Florida over Halloween weekend (October, 2010).  Streetpainting.tv's Anthony Cappetto is interviewed, as well as other 3D Featured Exhibition artists Edgar Mueller and Tracy Lee Stum.  First place competition winner Valentina Sforzini (Italy) is interviewed and this is her street painting as the title image.

Sarasota Chalk Festival 2010 from ColdSun Productions on Vimeo.

Thanks to Alessio & Sander at ColdSun Productions!

Happy New Year of Street Painting Worldwide with Blog Now on streetpainting.tv

Hello to all of our regular readers and a Happy New Year 2011!

 

 

2011 is going to be a time of growing in the world of street painting art with newer festivals become part of the street painting landscape along with a new generation of street painting artists making their mark on the scene.

Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is happy to be reaching out to festival directors, street painting artists, and the growing fan base around the world discovering our 400 year old plus art form in the world of new media and technologies in a partnership - not a competition - with the live viewing experience one can only have by attending a street painting festival in your area, wherever that might be.

As streetpainting.tv, Wendy and I have been so glad to be part of street painting to interview many artists over the years in Monterrey, Mexico at Festival Bella Via and making new friends in street painting at the Sarasota Chalk Festival last October.  We are working on interview videos with artists from Monterrey and Sarasota and plan to have even more videos up and running on the websites and online sources of streetpainting.tv.  We can be seen on our streetpainting.tv branded site/channels on YouTube, Facebook Fan Page,Twitter, Livestream and plan to spread into the fabric of social networking and mobility to bring street painting art to as many as possible in the ways that work best for our growing base of viewers with a library closing in on 300 videos and counting.

We are supportive of all the new festivals arising in Europe, around the rest of the world, and across the USA. Streetpainting.tv will be happy to bring our unique one on one interviewing (thanks to Wendy) to any interested festivals anywhere who will be glad to have us on the media team. 

Of course, we have not forgotten the festivals that have brought street painting to popularity before the advent of our current internet age such as the festivals of California, such as the I Madonnari in Santa Barbara, and the Italian Street Painting Festival by Youth in Arts in San Rafael and the many others in the USA such as the Lake Worth Street Painting Festival in Florida, the Via Colori Festivals, and the many others across the country.

And then there is Italy, where the art of the Madonnari began, the home of the Competition at Grazie  which brought Madonnari together from 1972 after it was thought the art form may have begun to fade away.  The importance and tradition of the Italian festivals and the longtime Madonnari is clear and in our respect, a special thanks to our fellow street painters from Italy who bring material for posts to us during the year.

Thanks to all, especially our readers for being a part of our blog and video channel in 2010 and we hope to bring as much street painting to you as we can in 2011.

Anthony Cappetto and Wendy Stum are co-founders of Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc., a company bringing street painting art to a new generation of festivals and artists using new technologies as they develop to blending the traditional and the new in the street painting art form.  Streetpainting.tv and Blog Now on streetpainting.tv are a part of Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc.

Happy Holidays from Blog Now on Streetpainting.tv!

 
Street painter Anthony Cappetto was asked to create a Holiday-themed street painting for the 'Making Merry in Berry Hill' holiday event in Nashville, TN.  His 8' x 18' piece took him 2 1/2 days to complete and was the centerpiece of the event!  The people of Berry Hill (a section of Nashville) really enjoyed watching him work as well as the finished 3D anamorphic street painting.

Blog Now on Streetpainting.tv wishes all of our readers a very Happy Holiday Season!