Gone are the days when the use of chalk was limited to classroom blackboards and  on pavements outlining hopscotch games on pavements.  Artists have been chalking it out in pavements around the world proving that art can be done any place, anywhere, any how for as long as there is talent. 

Artists, Ala Paredes and Edd Aragon recently took to the sidewalks of Parramatta to show off their Chalk art during a Chalk Urban Art Festival in Parramatta.

Ala hit the pavement with her work titled “Alyssa de la Mar” and bagged the Best Novice Award from over 30 competing pavement artists.

Aragon’s contribution was titled “Life Blues” .

The Chalk Art Festival is an annual event which started in 2005 which attracts thousands of spectators as the artists get down on their knees to painstakingly complete their 3D artworks on the pavement with colourful chalk. 

It’s a form of art that has been sweeping Europe and is fast catching on in Sydney.