TYLER, Texas (KLTV) By Jamey Boyum- If you chalk it, they will paint; at least that was the theory during the Texas Main Street Summer Conference in Mount Pleasant. And they got a mural artist to draw on the wall of a downtown business and main street managers from all over the state were the artists.
Just west of the courthouse a building wall was chosen to beautify, so to kick it off Artist David Freeman addressed the crowd of soon-to-be fellow artists. “So everybody that’s painting, you’re going to have one strip
of paper; and identify the column, for example this one is ‘Y’,” Freeman said. He took the mural design and cut it into strips that correspond to a grid on the wall where the full sized mural is drawn in chalk. And the painting began, each person painting a square or two. “I imagine a lot of people haven’t done this since they were kids,”
I said to David. “Yeah, well I asked how many people had painted and about five people raised their hands out
of seventy,” he smiled.
David has done this before and has found: “They really enjoy it. It’s a nice experience for them, you know
or our high school art students,” David said. Mount Pleasant resident Amy Hinton said she thinks "it’ll be: “Eye catching. I think people will be able to notice this. They’ll want their picture made in front of it, and they’ll come by to see this little piece of history,” Hinton stated. And Amy Hinton captured the history while it was in the making with a time lapse she shared. And yes, the selfies began right after the brushes went down.“It’s kind of blocked in, we got something going on and it looks beautiful. It looks great,” David added.
