<b>Photos:</b> Pasadena Chalk Festival

Fabian Debora, a self-taught painter, with his chalk mural “Madre Frida.” Hundreds of artists gathered over the weekend to set a Guinness World Record for the largest display of chalk pavement art.


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Eileen Fadden works on her mural “Last House on the Block.” Around 600 other artists worked on the hot pavement during the festival.
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Thousands of visitors walked around during the festival, enjoying live music and watching professional and amateur artists create chalk murals.
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Anne Marie Darrach of Valencia works on a reproduction from artist Gil Elvgren. Elvgren was an influential painter of pinup girls in the 1930s to 1970s.
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Terrus Parker works on a chalk mural of the Los Angeles Lakers at the pavement -drawing event in Pasadena.
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