Frances Pleta helps her daughter Mikaella, 3, add color to line art on the walkway during the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center’s third annual Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, August 26, 2023. Stacy Moffatt’s line art illustrations on the sidewalks of the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center create murals for guests to add color. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer)
Timmy Ronan, 7, uses different color chalks fill in between the white lines during the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center’s third annual Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, August 26, 2023. Stacy Moffatt’s line art illustrations on the sidewalks of the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center create murals for guests to add color. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer)
Chalk artist James Festini puts the finishing touch on his bird-themed artwork during the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center’s third annual Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, August 26, 2023. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer)
Stacy Moffatt’s line art illustrations on the sidewalks at the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center’s third annual Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, August 26, 2023. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer)
Chalk Artist Jen Bonahora works with Avery Li, 5, and her brother Bryce, 2, to help her with her blue dolphin mural during the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center’s third annual Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, August 26, 2023. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer)
Giuliana Ferrari, 19 months, chooses her chalks to color between the lines during the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center’s third annual Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, August 26, 2023. Stacy Moffatt’s line art illustrations on the sidewalks of the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center create murals for guests to add color. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer)
Victoria McBride and Sophie Bonahora, 16, pose for a photo with the ladybug line art they completed coloring during the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center’s third annual Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, August 26, 2023. Stacy Moffatt’s line art illustrations on the sidewalks of the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center create murals for guests to add color. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer)
The finished art by Chalk Artist, Lauren Ramirez at the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center’s third annual Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, August 26, 2023. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer)
Ava, 4, adds color between the lines during the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center’s third annual Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, August 26, 2023. Stacy Moffatt’s line art illustrations on the sidewalks of the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center create murals for guests to add color. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer)
Residents had the opportunity to color the walkways with chalk during the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center’s third annual Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, August 26, 2023. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer)
Kelly Ynzunza, her daughter Sydney with friend Natalie Brunjes, right, and her English Bulldog Coco enjoy a meal from one of the food trucks on the lawn during the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center’s third annual Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, August 26, 2023. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer)
Five-year-olds Sabrina Cotler, left, and Lillian Nguyen add color with chalk during the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center’s third annual Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, August 26, 2023. Stacy Moffatt’s line art illustrations on the sidewalks of the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center create murals for guests to add color. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer)
Children fill in between the white lines as a coloring book with different color chalks during the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center’s third annual Chalk Art Festival on Saturday, August 26, 2023. Stacy Moffatt’s line art illustrations on the sidewalks of the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center create murals for guests to add color. (Photo by Frank D’Amato, Contributing Photographer)
Taking in art doesn’t have to be fancy in a museum gazing at a wall, it can down on the ground and dirty. That was how families enjoyed the third annual Chalk Art Festival in Yorba Linda on Saturday.
The festival hosted by at the Yorba Linda Cultural Arts Center featured experience chalk artists producing murals on the sidewalk. But it also featured tubs of chalk for visitors to use and participate in coloring in the outlines of pictures drawn along the center’s outdoor paseo.
