Speaking for Art for After Hours, my company that provides the talents of 3-D street painting art talent for corporate and not for profit projects in the USA and internationally since 2001, our artists and team have seen the growth and interest in this art form spread rapidly with clients in 2009 ranging from large exhibition projects in Dubai (below), international street painting festivals in Mexico, to small growing art events here in the USA.  Even in the current economic conditions during 2009, street painting art in corporate art events and launches has still been a successful means for advertising, marketing, and public relations firms to bring their message to their targets.

'Parrots' by street painting artist Rod Tryon (2009).

'Jaguars' by street painting artist Rod Tryon (2009).

Promotional 3-D street painting for Dubai Shopping Festival by street painting artist Rod Tryon (2009).

3-D street painting designed by street painting artist Rod Tryon in Great Neck, NY (2009). I assisted Rod in the street painting drawing for this day long project.  Artists: Rod Tryon and Anthony Cappetto.  Photograph by Wendy Stum of Art for After Hours.

Earlier that day, Anthony Cappetto (above) participating in a street painting art workshop, sharing the street painting art of Rod Tryon with an eager audience of youngsters enjoying the pictures...Photograph by Wendy Stum of Art for After Hours. 

Street painting artist Rod Tryon conducting an artist workshop for children in Great Neck, NY in 2009. Photograph by Wendy Stum of Art for After Hours.

Art for After Hours sees positive signs for larger, more ambitious projects and efforts for the street painting art form in 3-D and traditional 2-D street painting art projects in 2010 in terms of corporate and not for profit events.  Art for After Hours values the respect and integrity of our clients and their vision, as well and equally, the growth and creativity of the fine street painting artists that we have on contract to allow these street painting art projects to become reality.

3-D street painting in New Orleans, LA for GE Healthcare (2009) by street painting artist Michael Macaulay (2009). Photograph by the artist.

This has additionally been a fine year for Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc. (ISPG), a second company in which I am a co-founder to bring the street painting art form to the new generation of street painting artists, festival directors, and the many growing fans via social media.  In 2009, partnering with Livestream.com, a streaming video media provider, ISPG was able to broadcast live from the Festival Bella Via in Monterrey, Mexico in October, interviewing street painters from Mexico and Italy through our street painting art video channel, streetpainting.tv.   The broadcast reached viewers in Mexico, USA, and Canada, but additionally in Europe, the Russian Federation, Asia, and South Africa.

From the Festival Bella Via 2009:  A reproduction of 'Mariposas Blancas' by original artist Victor Rodriquez (2007) reproduced by street painting artists Ana Celia Tijerina Martinez and Cesar Jair Hernandez Ponce.  Photograph by Wendy Stum of streetpainting.tv.

From the Festival Bella Via 2009:  A reproduction of 'El Velorio' by original artist Jose Jara (1889); reproduced by street painting artist Adrian Monsivais Rosales, the winner of the Primer Lugar (First Prize) in the Qualificati street painting art level at Festival Bella Via. Photograph by Wendy Stum of streetpainting.tv.

Street painting artists have been following postings through our blog, ‘Blog Now on streetpainting.tv’, with over 160 posts of the work of street painting artists, festivals, and events written in a journalistic manner with name and photo credits to these exceptionally creative artists and festival directors as a matter of course.

From the Blog Now on streetpainting.tv interview with John Aaron, CEO of CHALK4PEACE; Photo: Valley View E.S., Richmond, CA 9/11/09 by Jerry Downs Photography.

Moving forward in 2010, we are seeing the interest in the avatar and virtual space experiences growing and the beginning of popular discussion of when – not if virtual spaces and avatar based interaction will become part of mainstream society.  Innovative Street Painting Group plans to become a part of this ‘blending’ of the live aspects of our art form with these new, exciting developments, whether they are in Second Life or another immersive delivery method.

SL avatar Chalkfan Streeter (aka Anthony Cappetto of ISPG) by 3-D street painting art 'Snakes' originally created live by professional street painting artist Rod Tryon.  The art was part of a contemporary art exhibition presented in Second Life in 2008 at the Ten Cubed Gallery, the first exhibition of street painting art in a virtual space. Photograph by Anthony Cappetto of streetpainting.tv.

Our experience in working closely with professional clients and our street painting artists through Art for After Hours will be strong components in sharing, growing, and interacting with visionaries in new VR and VS worlds who enjoy art and wish to bridge live and virtual experiences.

I will be glad to discuss our thoughts in this post through Art for After Hours and Innovative Street Painting Group, reaching out and being available to those who envision the way forward in street painting as we do.

Anthony Cappetto is President/Artist of Art for After Hours, a professional street painting art company providing project development and management for corporate and not for profit clientele in the USA and internationally since 2001 as well a co-founder of Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc., a street painting art and media entertainment company since 2007.

Art for After Hours has been meeting this need for our corporate clients by offering 3-D advertising solutions in the form of 'slicker art' in which an actual chalk art work is designed and created then transferred to an indoor or outdoor media for advertising, public relations, or other media usages.

A recently completed project was for a client who wished to show the new product design for West Cigarettes at a French tradeshow - we were happy to design this 3-D solution for them.

This is a view of the art work (designed and drawn by professional 3-D street painting artist Rod Tryon) photographed to show how a viewer may see the art work through their digital camera or smartphone.

And this is a view of the art work (by professional 3-D street painting artist Rod Tryon) from an over head position to present the 3-D effect as it is drawn to achieve the illusionary effect when seen from the ground.  The design ability from the professional 3-D street painting artist who understands the unique design methods required to produce this work is the key difference in the outcome of a project.

Note:  Not every subject works in every environment or audience, some may like to use different subjects for slicker art than cigarettes or other products that may have a controversial element.  We at Art for After Hours do not endorse cigarette smoking ourselves but endorse creative interpretations of clients messages.

Anthony Cappetto is President/Artist of Art for After Hours, a professional street painting art company providing 3-D street painting art talent for corporate and not for profit clients in the USA and internationally since 2001.

The 3-D street painting featured the CARESCAPE Monitor B850 in a playful New Orleans setting of popular themes such as trumpeteers, jesters, and the Bourbon Street sign with an intertwining with the imagery of GE Healthcare with positive results from the attendees and onlookers.

Here are some images from this successful event:

The finished image by Michael Macaulay that measured 10' x 16' in size and took three days to produce onsite.

Daily onlookers enjoying the 3-D street painting by Michael Macaulay in New Orleans.

A lighter moment - Michael Macaulay showing the 3-D illusionary effect from his street painting, an original design.

Anthony Cappetto is President/Artist of Art for After Hours, a professional street painting art company bringing art and technology together through attractive 3-D street paintings for corporate and not for profit clients in the USA and Internationally since 2001.

This is a 'streetpaintingtv2' video screen for the live streaming video broadcast of Festival Bella Via - Monterrey, Mexico starting on October 9th running through October 11th. You can turn on our screen to see videos from last year's street painting festival with our live coverage starting at 12:00pm local time on October 9th.

Wendy Stum and I from streetpainting.tv will be on hand to interview Festival personnel, Exhibition Madonnari and Competition Artists, with more segments throughout the weekend, with the Closing Ceremonies for the winning Competition Artists on Sunday October 11th starting after 6pm local time.

We encourage our viewers to embed the 'streetpaintingtv2' screen on your blogs, social networking and websites for seeing street painting (chalk) art live as it unfolds over the three day event.

  Today's FT had a simple demonstration of augmented reality in an article in which the reader would position a graphic placed in the paper in the direction of the reader's webcam reading from a FT link.

Although I have seen this demonstration of AR before, it is fun to do yourself, and in my mind a start point for innovative ways of presenting your message in the ever expanding media in which an ad message not only reaches target audiences but the target audiences can send it right back through social media, microblogging, internet, mobile , and virtual media such as augmented reality.

I am attaching a video of the AR here: Download BOS AR VID 00005

Here are some of my results:

 a virtual cube program running 'in the palm of my hand', can this 'blending' of physical (my hand) and virtual (the AR program running) apply to ISPGs street painting concepts? We say yes... and look forward to meeting those who wish to try...

Anthony Cappetto is President/Artist of Art for After Hours, an art consulting company providing professional street painting talent to corporate and public events in the USA and internationally as well as a co founder and President of Innovative Street Painting Group, Inc, a company using live broadcasting through our streetpainting.tv live channels, videos on demand, and new technologies such as ‘Blended’ street painting art services for real world/virtual world applications to grow the art form of street painting art to the next generation of street painting artists worldwide.