Let's start chalking!

Make the best of the art of chalk drawing by bringing life and colour into unconventional outdoor residential spaces! Watch Nova Scotia's very own Chalkmaster demonstrate how simple it is to be creative and have fun anywhere!

Video with audio description — Let’s start chalking!

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Transcript of Let’s start chalking! video with audio description

Length of video: 00:02:08

This video is narrated with audio description.

[Two maple leaves are on a red fence background. The leaves have a brown wood grain. White text reads, “La fête du Canada Day — Canada Day.” Light flashes across the screen, and the image is replaced with a man standing on a dock by a body of water. A few houses sit on the shore. The man wears a red shirt and red hat, and he holds a flat pink pencil box. The man waves. A grey text box pops up in the bottom left corner with a red maple leaf beside it. It identifies the man as “Dave Johnston, Chalkmaster Dave.”]

Dave: Hi, everybody. I'm Chalkmaster Dave and I'm here in Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia. I hope you're having a safe, healthy, fun Canada Day out there, and I'm here to show you how to take an unconventional spot and bring it to life a little bit with a little bit of colour.

[Dave opens the pencil case and displays multicoloured sticks of chalk.]

All you need is a few pieces of chalk and a bit of imagination. So, why don't I stop talking and get chalking?

[Serene music plays.]

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[Dave sits on the sidewalk beside the dock. In a time-lapse, he uses red chalk to make a large outline of a Canadian maple leaf on the concrete. He fills in the leaf, then smudges the chalk to even it out. He adds brighter red overtop. With black chalk, Dave draws a shadow close behind the leaf. He outlines the red leaf with white chalk, making it seem 3D. He draws 2 small maple leaves on either side of it.]

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[Dave walks up a path to a white lighthouse, which is surrounded by smooth rocks.]

Dave: And here we are at Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

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[Dave sits on a large, flat rock at the base of the lighthouse and outlines a maple leaf with white chalk. He fills it in with red, then adds a black shadow like it's 3D. Dave draws 2 more maple leaves near it.]

So, there you have it. You can find fun and creativity almost anywhere you look. From all of us in Nova Scotia, have a safe and happy Canada Day!

[A light flashes across the screen, and the fence background from the beginning appears with the words, “La fête du Canada — Canada Day.” The screen fades to a black background with the Canada Wordmark on it: the word "Canada" with a small Canadian flag over the final "a." The screen fades to black.]