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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.

3D integrated street painting at the Weisman Art Museum: Shawn McCann

3D street painting (chalk) artist Shawn McCann created an integrated 3D street painting, blending imagery on a concrete vertical panel and the concrete floor surface as one 3D illusion to entertain attendees of a Gala celebrating the reopening of the Weisman Art Museum after the completion of a $14 million dollar remodelling project.  

The Museum, designed by distinquished architect Frank Gehry, was an impressive backdrop for Shawn's design of the Minneapolis skyline via the Mississippi river.  

Blog Now on streetpainting.tv is supportive of all street painting artists who enjoy bringing innovation in street painting art and Shawn's work with more than one surface to create an integrated whole illusion is a perfect example of creating such work.

Shawn McCann at Artisphere 2011: Reproduction of 'The Secrets That We Gather' by fine artist Michael Madzo

Hi Everyone,

We have some new pictures from street painting artist Shawn McCann from his recent street painting at the Artisphere International Arts Festival in Greenville, SC.  Take a look below... Best, Anthony and Wendy from Blog Now on streetpainting.tv.

 

Here is an overall close up of the street painting that Shawn completed.  It was ten by fourteen feet in size and took Shawn three days to complete to the excitement of the festival visitors.

The street painting art looks great, and Shawn had a great time sharing his talent with the festival visitors.  Blog Now on streetpainting.tv looks forward to seeing more work from Shawn soon.

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! 

'Skullduggery' 3D Halloween Chalk Art at Sarasota International Chalk Festival 2010

3D Halloween themed 'Skullduggery' was a 20' x 40' chalk mural created on the street for the Sarasota International Chalk Festival 2010 by street painters Anthony Cappetto, Michael Macaulay, and Shawn McCann.  The festival took place over Halloween weekend, so a scary and bright theme fit right in!

Here are some photos of 'Skullduggery' as it progressed from start to finish.

The guys (Anthony, Mike, and Shawn) work out the proportions and sketch the main lines out.

Anthony adding color at the top while Shawn sketches out some elements further down.

Close up of Shawn (left) and Mike (right) working.

Anthony adds color to the skull.

Shawn and Mike working their way down the sides of the piece, adding the souls trapped in the walls.

Photo from the top of the chalk art.

The 3D view is really popping out now.  Mike is coloring in details of the faces of the damned.

Almost finished...Shawn and Anthony are adding some highlights to the piece.

Detail of wood beam with chain and skull and the damned on the back wall.

The finished 3D street painting 'Skullduggery' with Anthony and Shawn posing with the piece. 

'Skullduggery' 3D Halloween Street Painting at Sarasota Int'l Chalk Festival 2010

 
Team of Anthony Cappetto, Michael Macaulay, and Shawn McCann created this 20' x 40' street painting with chalk pastels in three days for the Sarasota International Chalk Festival 2010.  The street painting called 'Skullduggery' was a featured 3D exhibition artwork at the festival.

The guys had a great time working on this piece, especially since the festival was over Halloween weekend.  The crowd loved the scary theme and bright artwork, showing a fiery dungeon with lost souls trapped in the walls, trying to escape the 'fires of hell' below.  A large skull oversees the trapped souls.  A meat hook and metal bar hang from wooden beams and worked great for photo ops.

 
'Skullduggery' in process.  The artists are: Michael Macaulay (left), Anthony Cappetto (center), and Shawn McCann (right). 

  
The Sarasota International Chalk Festival 2010 in Sarasota, Florida, was lots of fun with many street painters doing Halloween themed street paintings.  Some even dressed up on Halloween to do their art work.  Thanks Denise Kowal and all of the volunteers who made this festival such a success!

'A View from the Butte' 3D Street Painting by Shawn McCann

 
Shawn McCann posing with his 3D Street Painting 'A View from the Butte' in North Dakota this past weekend. The finished chalk art was 10' x 15' and took Shawn two full days to complete.

Shawn shared his thoughts with Blog Now on Streetpainting.tv about the event...

"From the moment I stepped back into my home state, I knew the 3D street painting I was going to be working on would be a blast.  The Bismarck Capital A'Fair is an art festival that is held annually on the grounds of the state capital in Bismarck, North Dakota.  With over a 130 artisans from around the country, it was a fun filled weekend of art.  For the street painting that I worked on "A View from the Butte", being located at the base of the capital was a perfect location for the 3D street painting to come alive.  Having just two days to work, the piece quickly took shape and the crowd started to see how the perspective really brought the piece out.  For myself, the most gratifying reactions that were heard was when you would get that "wow", it is 3D when looking through the camera.  To have them go back and forth from their own eyesight to the camera and back again was great and fun to see."   

Shawn finishing up his 3D street painting while the crowd check out the 3D view from the camera.

 "Overall, everyone at the fair was a treat to visit and talk with.  Having people consistently come back to check on the progress of the piece was fun and a great incentive to keep the work alive!  Thought the weather was really hot and humid, the fair had a fun and energetic vibe that kept the weekend hopping!

Kids and adults really enjoyed the street painting and had fun posing on the butte and taking pictures.