It's Sand Sculpting Season Again!

This year the Siesta Key Crystal Classic is hosting the World Championship Doubles Division of sand sculpting for 2011.  There is no specific theme so you can make whatever you want.  Here are some of the entries and the winner.

And The Winner Is

Art in the Streets

The Chalk Festival has decended upon Sarasota once again and the streets are filling up with chalk paintings of enormous proportions, some taking up nearly a city block!  This year a new aspect of the chalk festival was added called Going Vertical.  It includes numerous works of art on walls around town and not just on the streets. The artists come to Sarasota from all over the world to compete and show off their talents as street artists.  Here are some of my favorites:

The photo above is all painted onto the side of a building and what you see is all painted!