Over the weeks and months, of this blog we have come to see some rather amazing street art. Some have been nerdy, some amazing and some are just made to make people like us smile. That is where the amazing cartoon chalk drawing skills of David Zinn comes into it. He is a very talented street artist who creates funny chalk drawings about the green creature Sluggo and his friends that he invented. These delightful characters have been seen all over sidewalks in Ann Arbor, Michigan and I would like to show you just a small selection of them…
David Zinn – Sluggo and Friends Street Art
10 – Make sure you clean behind those eyestalks as well! – (See More Here: zinnart.com)
FACT: Have you see a teacher use chalk or maybe you have seen people mark tennis courts and football pitches with it?! Well, that isn’t true because chalk has not been used for those things since the 80’s as mining costs were already too high to get it. Nowadays blackboard chalk and line painting are done with a solid chemical driven paint.
David Zinn – Sluggo and Friends Street Art
9 – Are those bubbles rising from your swimming trunks Sluggo! – (See More Here: zinnart.com)
FACT: Strangely chalk is not weathered by water as its fine-grained structure makes it almost waterproof, but when that water is in frost form chalk cracks and weathers badly.
David Zinn – Sluggo and Friends Street Art
8 – Want to come outside and play Sluggo?!? – (See More Here: zinnart.com)
FACT: Have you ever seen gymnasts and other athletes wipe their hands in that white power before performing?!? Well, guess what, that is chalk and it is used to provide grip.
David Zinn – Sluggo and Friends Street Art
7 – It looks amazing! But don’t you have to plug them in?!? – (See More Here: zinnart.com)
FACT: Chalk is highly porous which means it can not only filter water rather well, but it can also be used to store it as well!
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David Zinn – Sluggo and Friends Street Art
6 – Are you allowed to pick them Sluggo?!? – (See More Here: zinnart.com)
FACT: All of the chalk that is used in the world today dates from the Cretaceous Period which was about 121 million years ago! (give or take a few million years)
David Zinn – Sluggo and Friends Street Art
5 – I would love feeding these, but it would take ages for them to get to the bread! – (See More Here: zinnart.com)
FACT: Chalk is found in various places all over the World, but strangely 99% of all chalk used as in manufacturing is from only 2 places, Northwest Europe and between the Rocky Mountains in the Mississippi River!
David Zinn – Sluggo and Friends Street Art
4 – Fly my babies, FLY!!! – (See More Here: zinnart.com)
FACT: Chalk forms in marine environments with warm water and deep seas, but that is in the short-term, over millions of years it might form islands and can float off to other, colder parts of the World much like how the Isle of White (UK) was formed!
David Zinn – Sluggo and Friends Street Art
3 – Secret Santa Gifts are the best! – (See More Here: zinnart.com)
FACT: Chalk is a sedimentary rock which means it is deposited in layers, one on top of the other until they are pressed together, then over time they will cement into stone.
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David Zinn – Sluggo and Friends Street Art
2 – This would happen to me for sure! – (See More Here: zinnart.com)
FACT: Chalk is composed mostly of the mineral calcite and it is made from the fossilised skeletons of microscopic marine plankton! That is kind of gross.
David Zinn – Sluggo and Friends Street Art
1 – I wish I could do this. – (See More Here: zinnart.com)
FACT: Chalk is a soft, white, fine-grained type of limestone but is pulled out the ground in a lumpy liquid form!