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Sarasota News Leader January 10, 2014 Page 90 which will be held the night before the festi- I portrait by famed illustrator J.C. Lyendecker. val begins. "I'm playing with a few ideas before Anna Maria," he told me. "I want to honor the It is true for Michelle Clinton, faculty member theme: From Pirates to the Present. Maybe at Manatee School for the Arts, who will be participating in the event. A longtime volun- I'll reproduce one of N.C. Wyeth's pirate illusteer for the Sarasota Chalk Festival, Clinton trations or else one of the lively 19th century is "more than ready to make the leap onto the posters celebrating Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta, The Pirates of Penzance. pavement!" according to Kowal. My favorite part of the festival (Yau chalks at It is true for the captain of the Scallywag, many national and international events) is the Anna Maria Island's beloved pirate ship, camaraderie among the artists and viewers." which "floats" into events such as this one. A few years ago in Sarasota, while chalking a It is rumored that the captain will be accom- Gil Elvgren portrait, Yau heard a man exclaim, panied by his "Krewe" (sometimes called "That's my father's painting!" Sure enough, it "scurvy old sea dogs"). was Elvgren's grown son, who told Yau that Joel Yau of San Rafael, CA, dazzled view- as a youngster in the 1960s, he prepared all ers last November who viewed his Sarasota of his father's art materials in his studio on street painting, a reproduction of a World War Featherbed Lane on Siesta Key! Yau's completed 2013 Chalk Festival work reflected the event's theme, Legacy of Valor. Photo by Norman Schimmel