I Madonnari

Last weekend was the 21st annual I Madonnari festival at the Santa Barbara Mission, which displays beautiful chalk artwork rendered by local artists and commissioned by local businesses. Many of the works were still on display when I visited this weekend:












This last piece received my "Best in Show." Just beautiful. Step aside, Lorenzo de Medici. There's a new art patron in town. And his name is Walter Michajlenko, Oral Surgeon.

Then there's this guy:


Rather than parking at the lot like the rest of us, this dude decided to get a closer look by parking ON TOP OF several of the works! Philistine.