About the Festival

THE 54TH WINTER PARK SIDEWALK ART FESTIVAL

Children’s Workshop Village

Hey, Kids! Come Create! Have Fun! It’s Free!

Boys and girls, here is your chance to show everyone your artistic abilities by creating a unique piece of artwork. Best of all, it’s all free and kids can keep what they make!

The fun happens between 10 AM and 4 PM at the Children’s Workshop Village on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Children’s Workshop Village is appropriate for children ages 2 through 12.

One of the most popular activities at the Village is easel painting on Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM. In addition, each of our museum partners has prepared interesting hands-on arts and crafts activities on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.

Read more: Children's Workshop Village

Each year the art festival selects three judges from around the country; they each have artistic credentials in varying fields. In October, these judges select the artists that will participate in the show from the more than 1,000 artists who apply. The images that they view for selection have numbers and no names so the judges won’t be swayed by recognition of the artist. These same judges attend the festival in March and view each artist’s whole body of work in order to select the winners of this year’s awards.

Read more: 2013 Judges

2013 POSTER ARTIST: Tom Sadler 

Since moving to Orlando in 1983, Tom Sadler has dedicated his efforts towards capturing the light, color, and mood of the Central Florida landscape. The intense light, combined with the natural beauty of the many lakes, rivers, and parks of the area provide a never-ending source of inspiration. His paintings come to life as a celebration of this beauty found in nature, sometimes exuberant, at other times more subtle.

Receiving his BFA at Auburn University, Sadler's art education also includes the study of oil painting with instructor Jack Dempsey at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Later, he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Since that time he has studied the work of a variety of artists that have had different influences on his work. Sadler feels a pressing desire and necessity to paint each day. He feels that the door is just opening to the world of revealing all that is possible for him through his artwork.

The light from the changing of seasons, times of day, or weather conditions are all fair game when what is often sought is the display of harmony between warm and cool color. Working from life, the artist is also preoccupied with capturing the color and atmosphere that the landscape suggests. Sadler works in oils because of their inherent versatility and permanence. He utilizes consistencies of paint that alternate from very transparent to very opaque. His glazing techniques imbue his work with an unmistakable sense of light. This depiction of light and its manifestations becomes the subject in most of Sadler's works.

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