Cardus's early work experience was less than propitious (he endured poorly-paid spells as a
pavement artist and carpenter's mate, amongst other things), but he had a voracious appetite for reading and would later exclaim that he was "an extremely well-educated uneducated man".
Chalk Boy is being drawn by Barnaby, a
pavement artist. Unusually, the story is narrated in the first person by a chalk drawing.
I wandered outside and walked over to a
pavement artist; something caught my attention, 'How much?' I whispered looking at the poster he was selling.
The gallery owner Lucy Wertheim lent paintings by Alfred Wallis, and Trevelyan, Roland Penrose and others lent paintings by untutored artists they admired, such as Louis Vivin (a retired French postman), Henry Stockley (a Green Line bus driver) and David Burton (a
pavement artist).
It was, however, the glance of a
pavement artist who knows that rain is inevitable.
Among the international speakers were
pavement artist Kurt Wenner, who talked about the importance of learning the skills artists used centuries ago in addition to using modern art techniques, and Dr Pavan Agrawal, who did his PhD on the Mumbai Dabbawalas, or food delivery organisation.
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Pavement artist Julian Beever in Belfast yesterday
In 1998 Richard, who also calls himself Rishi, was travelling around the world and working as a
pavement artist. After visiting Mexico, the eco-warrior got an "epiphany" and started work on his first island off Oaxaca.
Derek Hyamson caught a
pavement artist in full creative flood over the weekend, while Stephen Appleyard has come up with a detail from Herbert Tyson Smith's reliefs on the war memorial, on St George's Plateau.
He's a freelance fiend and a
pavement artist. He's pretty much got it worked out.
Eight-year-old Jake Wilkinson from the Star of the Sea School has been named a runner-up in the national Young
Pavement Artist of the Year 2006 competition for the second year running.
Last week Prada launched a return to the 50s with
pavement artist prints, cinched in waists and pretty skirts.
pavement artist - someone who draws on the pavement with colored chalks (hoping that passers-by will give them money)