Chalk artists turn downtown Pleasant Hill into colorful canvas
PLEASANT HILL, CA (Oct. 9, 2023) — Fifteen artists showed off their skills in the chalk medium as part of the Downtown Pleasant Hill’s Chalk Festival. Joe Mandrick, of San Jose, works on a landscape with a sunrise over wine country, while Milpitas resident Clifton Gold works on a fall tree motif in stained glass.
Along with the seasoned artists, as many would-be Picassos, Monets, and Cezannes tried their hands with the colorful, dusty medium in the nearby Kids Chalk Zone in the plaza near Jack’s Restaurant & Bar.
David Scholz
David Scholz is back in journalism as a freelance writer and photographer after nearly two decades in education. Prior to moving into teaching in 2000, he worked as a full-time journalist since 1988 for rural community and small daily newspapers in Central Ohio and Northern Nevada, and later in California with The Business Journal in Fresno and dailies in the Bay Area, including The Oakland Tribune and The San Francisco Chronicle. More recently Scholz also worked in an editing, writing, and page layout role with the Rossmoor News.