Creative Challenge – Make Earth Day Art 2020
A Creative Challenge for You! Make Art for EARTH DAY, April 22 (50th year anniversary) "We are All in this Together" Connecting to the Species who Share Our Planet A collaborative project with the Oakland Zoo, Drawing on Earth, and Mark Lewis Wagner Drawing On Earth has been chalk drawing at the Oakland Zoo on EARTH DAY for years. This year Founder and Director of Drawing on Earth, Mark Lewis Wagner will be creating a solo off-site chalk drawing for Earth Day, April 22, 2020. The Oakland Zoo an DoE are inviting everyone to join in and make some Art for Earth Day, pencil and paper, computer, paint, a dance, poem, draw in the dirt, a song, [...]
COLOR WHEEL MEDICINE CARDS
Hi Everyone, Creative Blessings to each and everyone of you in these crazy and stressful times. Drawing on Earth extends it's inspiration and support to all the kids, teachers, parents, adults, elders now. Mark Lewis Wagner is the Founder and Director of DoE, he is teaching 3 college art classes (painting, drawing, color) that are all moving online. Mark has always wanted to have an art teaching channel so here we go. Just beginning to organize what we have done over the years and beginning to generate new material now. YouTube - Mark Lewis Wagner Here is a Color Wheel Medicine Card painting project for anyone interested. It's designed for my beginning college classes but anyone can try [...]
Chalk
Our fundraiser went way better than expected - thank you everyone! Awesome... we'll buy some chalk. We get our chalk from Koss International (213-383-2474.) We buy the set of 24 soft pastels, and then break each piece in 1/2 so there is more to go around. Ever wonder what 16,000 pieces of chalk looks like? Well... We also use chalk by Eternity Arts. These chalk are larger and more expensive, I save them for me and the larger areas. This is what they look like being made. They also sell bricks of chalk which are just crazy. You should see the kids go crazy when they see them. I also just use them for larger areas. Photo [...]
20,000 Pieces of Chalk
DONATE NOW - PAYPAL or CHECK Have you ever wondered what one could do with 20,000 pieces of colorful chalk? Or even what would that look like? Well... this is what it looks like. And what could you do with 20,000 piece of chalk, well... you could draw on 30 elementary school playgrounds with 15,000 kids. And that is exactly what we have done. DONATE NOW - PAYPAL or CHECK
More ArtWork on the Playgrounds
We wanted to share some of our work from the spring. We have been working with the MDUSD Education Foundation for the last year visiting 30 elementary schools in the Mt Diablo school district (in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA) - so far we have been to 22 school and are making final dates for the rest over the fall 2019. It's been an amazing experience, just amazing, so many precious and profound moments. ~MLW Founder and Creative Director of Drawing on Earth If you are interested in having us visit your school or museum please drop us a note at: [email protected]
After the Rains
This spring has sure been wet for the Northern California area which is home for Drawing on Earth. Our big year long elementary school chalk drawing project has begun again. Drawing on Earth is collaborating with the Mt. Diablo Unified School District Education Foundation to chalk draw on 30 elementary school playgrounds which involves 15,000 kids. It's a crazy awesome experience! We have drawn at 13 schools so far, the last one being the largest in the district and the largest we have ever worked with 850 kids over 2 days. There is so much to share about this, for now we'll just show some images. In the bigger picture we are weaving a story about a [...]