8:30 AM Saturday Morning

I got the base coat down. It's called Tempra paint. Kinda like liquid chalk. The downtown area streets are made of shell rock and a very poor canvas. This helps make the colors "pop" out atcha as well as help fill in the grooves a little to make for a smoother surface.


9:00 AM Saturday Morning

Have my basic drawing layed out. Now I'm about ready to work. After some coffee though.


11:00 AM Saturday Morning

After a eight years participating in the festival, I've learned to take it as a "performing art". Meaning not to focus on the final product, rather people come to watch you make something out of nothing. So ... I work on the face first so people can at least see that something is coming of this. So it's like: "That dude's got a serious look on his face, so I'll come back around later to see where this is going."


12:00 PM Saturday

All right, I'm hungry now. I'll try to point out that it's a guitar player. Just then, people walk by ... "Oh, it's a guitar player!" Duh...


1:00 PM Saturday

Got something in the stomach and farted around for a little while. Back to work.


2:00 PM Saturday

Here's where the pace slows down as there are about 70,000 people swarming the streets taking pictures and asking you a gazillion questions.


3:00 PM Saturday

Here's where you start to tune people out and pretend you are deaf or do not understand english so that you can get some work done. Just don't pretend you speak spanish because most people in south florida are bi-lingual.


5:00 PM Saturday

All right then. Here's a good stopping point for the day. The plan is to come and finish and touch up tomorrow morning and enjoy the rest of the festival as a spectator. Oh yeah, I planned to film it this year and take hecka more photos.



Sometime Sunday Night



7:30 AM Sunday Morning

Whatcha gonna do? It's always been a chance that it would rain hard over the weekend. But in the 11 years of the festival, it's never been more than a slight drizzle that actually kinda helps your painting by adding a little moisture.


10:30 AM Sunday Morning

The rain has not stopped and doesn't look like it's going too. So I went to Wal-Mart and got a poarch tent thingy and a sheet of plywood. Got it all up in the rain and soaking wet. The weather man called for thundershowers for the entire day. Did that stop me? Heck NO! I'm doing this! I've been working this thing since October damnit! 10 bucks for some plywood. 99 bucks for this tent thingy. Hey I'm smart!

Just as I got the tent thingy up, the rain stopped and the sun came out and did not return. Man, I'm stupid.


12:00 - 3:00 PM Sunday

Scaled down what I planned to do to about 1/4 the size. Sure I could have done a lot more, (and better. It's hiddious, I know) but time was running out. I wanted to knock something out in aobut 3 hours and I did. Here's my contribution, now I have to go film and photograph the event. I'm the webmaster too. I'm working this thing remember? I'll have the other photos online soon here: http://streetpaintingfest...ntings.htm


Monday Night

With a little help from photoshop, this is closer to what I intended for the final output for Sunday. I'll be keeping that tent thingy in the garrage for next year!



The T-shirts sold this year were of my painting from last year. They almost sold out! People dug 'em.

Here's the close up.


Frank's Live set was AWESOME.
We'll have those mp3's up soon.

The video/DVD will be in production for a few weeks. It's going to rock!



More to come!

man, what a story. u really hung in there. great effort and beautiful painting.

Ahhhh was waiting for this post. Fantastic YaYa...brilliant use of color and space. The tent had me laughing (wouldn't a piece of plastic and some rocks covered it).

There is so much talent around here, damn.

Great Story! Great pictures, glad you got them before the rain.

Red said:

That's what messed it up. When you cover your stuff in a bad rain, the plastic only keeps the water underneath it and forms a puddle under the plastic. You can't really seal it. Even though we put a ton of duct tape all around it, the surface is not flat so the current of a heavy rain goes right underneath it.

Lesson learned here is NOT to cover it. Those who did not cover their paintings survived the rain! They were faded, but they didn't have to start from scratch.

Stupid me found this out two years ago, so I don't really know why I thought covering it this year would make a difference. The plastic really only works in a light "drizzle" situation.

Photoshop Restore Update

With a little help from photoshop, this is closer to what I intended for the final output for Sunday. I'll be keeping that tent thingy in the garrage for next year!

yamomma said:

Man, that's nice!

Thanx for showing us the process you went through
and sorry about the rain

But the creation is awesome!




Jshua

could I get a lithograph of this? I would love to get some of your music themed prints for my studio. Call me and let me know how possible this would be.

quite good. Ya...did that Rainbow Children artist inspire U

Hey man! Great job! There's something about the second one that I like better...

Red said:

Big Time!
We may fly him in next year. I spoke with his wife a few weeks ago and they love the pictures I send them and would be very interested in taking a three day weekend, mini vacation out of St. Louis in February!

VinaBlue said:

Thanks!

How so? It was a complete rush/hack job.

yamomma said:

In this one, the knuckles on the right hand were really bothering me. They look like they are bending forward under the knuckles... but maybe it just wasnt done yet.




This one just seems more proportionate. I guess maybe the original artwork is supposed to be that way... but I kinda liked the dimensions of this better. Looking at them together now though, I can see how the second one was rushed.

VinaBlue said:

His right or the right side of the painting?

yamomma said:

His right... the shading just looks awkward to me. The strumming hand.

Under the white lines.

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Funking Hell! Nothing happens easily does it. Once again Perserverance Furthered. Brilliant how you got the 3D perspective . It's a flat surface ? Not lifted somehow ? this pic. looks like it's on a curved panel. Photoshop s'pose. I like the blue bit at the top. Nice work!
Who's the dude ? Anyone we know ? Your a bit of a genius I gotta say.

Onya Mate for being the MAN. Wonderful story, looking forward to seeing the coverage on the site: http://streetpaintingfest...ntings.htm
Plus hear Frank's music.

FLUX said:

The only file that was photoshoped was this one: http://kellymcclain.net/SPF2/Final.jpg

The first day I painted on the road. Flat surface. The second day, I did a rush job on three panels of plywood. I had to buy three panels because one 4X8 wouldn't fit in the car. If you look close, you can see the breaks in the wood.

THANKS!

VinaBlue said:

I don't see what you are seeing. Looks right to me.

Excellent work as always, my friend! You are awesome!

yamomma said:

WOW, I like the photoshopped one, strait strings

Thanks my man.

As soon as my evening news interview comes in the mail, I'll post that too.


Oh yeah, I got interviewed by channel 25 evening news on Friday before the festival. Kinda funny.

Here's my news spot that they clipped down to about 5 or 10 seconds, Oh well.

BUT HEY! I WAS ON TV!!!
Click Here: http://streetpaintingfest...5News.html


Man, I look fat! I guess the camera really does add 20 lbs. This footage was shot the day before the festival when we were setting up the tents for the vendors, hanging signs and putting up baracades. In the rain, I might add.

Deffinately not my purtiest moment.

Kelly ur cute!
I love ur art.

Kelly, you are truly the Org Artist. This work is fantastic - especially under the pressure of mounting lightning and rain. You should have called me, you know I can pull strings at weather.com!

Fantastic work. When are you going to have a showing at a local gallery? Seriously, I'm not blowing smoke, I'm seriously asking. Daddy wants a painting. Hook a cracker up!!

c'mon Kelly, hook a brotha up with a painting.

Kelly you look fine, don't be silly. It's awesome to see you almost "for reals".

You go boy...

sacredwarrior said:

Awe shucks.
I call it a craft. I can't pull things out my rear like real artists do.

THANKS!

otan said:

THANKS MAN! I have a long way to go before having a full on show though. Did you check out Frank's set? http://www.prince.org/msg/15/135938

VinaBlue said:

HA, that's about as "for reals" as it gets! Totally RAW me.

talmuzic said:

Ok guys here are four.