Hopscotch and Sealed Crack Lines was inspired by a multicolored chalk hopscotch drawn in an alley that I walked by three times before deciding to take a picture.

When I started painting the lines around the chalk and collaged fabric hopscotch lines on this painting, I realized the Micaceous Iron Oxide paint I was using looks very similar to the material used for the sealed crack lines on the streets in my neighborhood and in the alley where I took the picture. Chalk and seal cracking are very different forms of mark making. Both are inspiring.

The rain washed away the chalk hopscotch but the sealed lines in the alley remain.

The painting includes an acrylic skin of the photograph, collaged monoprinted, painted and stitched construction fence fabric, and painting, on 6” x 6" board.