It was expected that there would be about 200 chalk creations around the park by the end of the festival on Saturday afternoon – in the end it reached 230 – and many families took advantage of the free activity and enjoyed getting creative.
Nine-year-old Innez de la Fosse drew a corgi in her box.
‘I love dogs, and I thought a corgi would be the easiest to draw,’ she said.
‘I have enjoyed this because I love drawing.’
She came with her cousins who also were getting creative in their allocated spaces on the park’s paths.
‘I’m drawing a sunbathing box,’ said Alicia de la Fosse, 8.
‘I have drawn a sunbed and a table with a cocktail on it.
‘We came to the park a few days ago and saw that this would be on today so we came back and it’s great.’
Sisters Daisy and Tilly Pattimore both decided to use their full box to create a scene rather than lots of smaller pictures like they had at the two previous festivals.
‘I am doing a sunset and I want to make it look realistic so it is going to take me ages,’ said Tilly, 8.
‘We went to Herm and the sunset was really nice so that inspired me.’
While she was focusing on the sun her sister created a picture of the moon.
‘I’m doing a night sky with a wolf howling in the front,’ said Daisy, 10.
‘I have been thinking about what I am going to do all morning.’
Organiser Ross Le Brun said the event had been a success.
‘We have had similar numbers to the last two times, it’s been great this morning,’ he said.
‘I’m really invested in art and would have loved something like this for me, but even though I can’t take part I love seeing it.
‘It’s free as well which is a big thing for me. Guernsey is an expensive place to live and there isn’t much you can do for free.’
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