Around 200 artists have transformed Fremont Park into an explosion of chalk pastel color this weekend as part of the annual Chalk It Up! festival.
Amanda McDonald, an art teacher at El Camino High School, beamed as she put the finishing touches on her sidewalk square, a Godzilla-sized mural of ET hovering over the Tower Bridge beneath a purple sky.
McDonald brought two cadres of students to work on two more squares created by El Camino students. That spirit of inspiring young people to create art is what Chalk It Up is all about, said John Nelson, a volunteer with the festival and one of the organizers.
“Not only do we create an educational experience for people here at the park, a lot of these kids we’re putting a piece of chalk in their hand and they’re doing it right next to pros that are awesome with their chalk,” he said…