Tales of the Flowers: 2025 Pasadena Chalk Festival - Silent Auction

As part of being an artist at the Pasadena Chalk Festival, you're highly encouraged to donate a canvas for the festival to raise money for the Lightbringer Project, a group that helps bring art to underserved kids in the community.

The first year you participate in the Chalk Festival it's $30. Every year after that it's free! When you're there, they give you plenty of chalk, water, snacks during the day, breakfast, tote bags, shirts, and artist dinner on Thursday, and there's awards for the winners. They even give you a blank canvas to return with paint on it! Painting a canvas seems like a simple thing to do in return.

Since we're traveling by air this summer, and living exclusively out of carry-on luggage, we had no art supplies. Our first stop in LA was a Michael's Craft Store to grab a canvas, paint, and brushes.

The kids wanted to be involved too, so we got extra canvas for them.

Making good progress. Alli chose to paint a cute little Yoda, while Ian is painting a Mandalorian helmet.

And on the day of the festival, our art was displayed along with many others in the silent auction.

Many people chose to do a Star Wars theme this year, so they've put them together on a table.

Starting bids for all paintings is $35, and you move up in $10 increments. At 6pm on Sunday, all the papers are collected and you pay for anything you've won.

Not bad at all. For as little as $35 you can get a fun memory of the festival.

Charlotte's piece this year. Curt brought it to the artist dinner on Thursday for her. They asked him for a title and he said... "Paint Heart".

I like it!

But Charlotte did not. When she saw the title on Saturday morning, she had the title changed to "All You Need Is..."

The tiny 3D printed paint buckets have unique labels on them that say things like: Love, Unity, Respect, Ally, Hope, Dreams, Dignity, Diversity, and more.

I like how the auctioneer wrote on the bottom "Subtitle: Kurt, you are in so much trouble."

Ruston's Xanadu painting turned out well.

This year, the Best In Silent Auction went once again (maybe 5 years in a row now) to Leo Aguirre. His portrait of Marilyn Monroe floats in mid-air and spins around.