This summer has been a great time to launch our 4D augmented reality projects here in the tri state area (NY, NJ, CT) and we have our latest project to share with our viewers.
This one brought 4D AR art of a goldfish swimming in a fishbowl while watching the chalk drawn koi pond drawn in real time during our event.
Watch Wendy and me have some fun interacting with the 4D augmented reality goldfish and the chalk koi pond art...
At left is our previous 4D augmented reality work from Westfield NJ next to our latest at the 31st Avenue Open Streets Program in NYC showing professional chalk art to our own community which was especially fun for us.
We're excited about the possibilities with 4D augmented reality with chalk art, murals, and the beauty of hand drawn art in all ways with our clients. If you feel the same reach out to Art for After Hours to discuss your plans with us soon.
This summer has been a great time to launch our 4D augmented reality projects here in the tri state area (NY, NJ, CT) and we have our latest project to share with our viewers.
This one brought 4D AR art of a goldfish swimming in a fishbowl while watching the chalk drawn koi pond drawn in real time during our event.
Watch Wendy and me have some fun interacting with the 4D augmented reality goldfish and the chalk koi pond art...
At left is our previous 4D augmented reality work from Westfield NJ next to our latest at the 31st Avenue Open Streets Program in NYC showing professional chalk art to our own community which was especially fun for us.
We're excited about the possibilities with 4D augmented reality with chalk art, murals, and the beauty of hand drawn art in all ways with our clients. If you feel the same reach out to Art for After Hours to discuss your plans with us soon.
Needless to say, 2020 has been a year in our world's collective experience that none of us will ever forget.
The human and social loss has been breathtaking and unbelievable.
As an artist that typically brought 3D art and technology solutions to our corporate, festival, and nonprofit clients to live events with crowds of people, like most businesses had to revisit the how to do this, but the why, and how to respond and grow to a new normal. This is the how, why, and grow Art for After hours did and will do in the new year ahead.
All public work was done maintaining social distancing guidelines.
Corporate and Virtual Festival Work
From top left, to right:
'Dandelions Blow Away' an illusionary piece as a painted mural carrying a message that the troubles our world is currently having will 'blow away' sooner than later. This was created for the Stawell Virtual Festival in Australia.
3D chalk piece for freshman orientation day at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.
Corporate project for Marc Jacobs 'Heaven' campaign at Brooklyn waterfront for a private event in Fall 2020. Three similar pieces were streetpainted onsite using chalk.
Corporate project for Aavrani cosmetics in New York City East Village in Fall of 2020. This was a painted 3D anamorphic mural.
A chalk mural highlighting current Aavrani product line drawn in 2D to compliment the main 3D ground mural.
Posing with finished chalk piece as part of a morning tv spot at PIX11 in midtown Manhattan to call attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
3D anamorphic piece chalk on pavement for BD Provisions in Newtown, Connecticut. Piece created in November 2020.
'Spaced Out' Second 'Lockdown' Virtual Festival in Fall 2020, United Kingdom and Houston Space Center USA. Our 3D interactive piece 'Artemis' was a homage to the USA return to the Moon in 2024 and a woman will lead the way. Earth is at the top right, the mission symbol for the Artemis Program is at the top left of the piece. A small red/orange Mars is seen in the astronaut's visor indicating humankind's next step forward in space exploration. 3D painted mural is five by eleven feet in size done indoors on canvas.
Corporate project for Skyview Shopping Mall in Flushing, Queens in New York City as part of a contracted artist group to paint plywood boarded up windows during the spring of 2020. We were very happy to bring art and support during the pause here.
Social Activism through Art
'Everyday Heroes...' Lockdown Virtual Festival in United Kingdom. This illusionary designed piece calls attention to the social and political issues present in the USA such as the economic crash for working people, the political divide between Trumpism and Progressives, and the hope shown by the sunflower for a better situation domestically and the world at large.
'We Hold These Truths to Be Self Evident...' This sketch came out of the dramatic social events for racial equality and justice starting with George Floyd and culminating with the brazen assaults on peaceful protesters in front of the White House on June 1st, 2020.
'COVID Atlas' A sketch depicting the statue of Atlas bearing the world upon his shoulders in front of Rockefeller Center in New York City in early spring of 2020 during the statewide pause. Many sketches were done at this time mainly to express concern for the dramatic changes in our city, Nation, and world.
'VOTE FOR YOUR LIFE' A corporate project for a national campaign to get younger people to vote in the 2020 Presidential Elections by MTV Networks where Art for After Hours created a series of chalk street paintings across Manhattan in New York City. We chose to present our art works as inspired by noted 20th Century Pop Artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Piet Mondrian, Robert Indiana, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Keith Haring.
Zoom discussion with art students about my company and artist career including earlier social activist pieces such as "Here but Not Here...', 'Respect Existence...' and 'Martian Dreamer'. The December 2020 discussion was moderated by Braincraft Art Academy in Bahrain with students from there, India, and Sri Lanka.
2020 has been a year most of the world wishes didn't happen or have to be, unfortunately it was with many events from tumultuous to the horror from the pandemic; yet we are here and we sincerely hope the world will eventually overcome this. We at Art for After Hours look forward to doing what we can in our art, creativity, and spirit.
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized artist known for 3D and AR anamorphic work in chalk and painted murals and Founder of Art for After Hours in 2001. Art for After Hours produces professional 3D anamorphic works for corporate, non profit, festival, government, and non governmental organizations in the USA, Europe, UAE, Americas North and South, and Asia. Contact us at artforafterhours.com or anthonycappetto.com.
Happy to let my viewers know that my first piece for 2020 is completed, installed, and on public display at Berkeley College in Woodbridge, New Jersey.
Take a look and enjoy!
View from the patio area - The mural is designed with a 3D effect in which the illusion goes into the wall surface.
Detail of the Berkeley College Mascot nearly 12 feet high itself.
Working colored pencil sketch
The live Berkeley College Mascot now a part of the 3D mural...
Detail of the Mascot.
Detail of the 'armor'...
Here I am posing for purposes of scale. The completed 3D mural measuring 12 feet high by 20 feet long. This was a fun first piece for the year and look forward to more 3D murals across the tri state area (New York City and State, New Jersey, Connecticut) and others across the US in 2020!
Anthony Cappetto is a professional artist working with 3D illusion in murals, street paintings, and chalk art founding Art for After Hours in 2001. Cappetto has brought 3D street painting art for his clients in corporate, not for profit, festival, advertising, public relations, government, and NGOs in Europe, United Kingdom, UAE, India, Japan, Uruguay, Mexico, and across the USA.
2018 has been a wonderful year for bringing 3D street painting art and murals to our clients.
Anthony Cappetto (pictured above) is an internationally recognized 3D street painting artist and founder of Art for After Hours, the first professional street painting art company in 2001. Clients include numerous corporate, exhibition, tradeshow, and festivals in the United States, Europe, Middle East, India, Asia, and the Americas. artforafterhours.com anthonycappetto.com
2018 has been a wonderful year for bringing 3D street painting art and murals to our clients.
Anthony Cappetto (pictured above) is an internationally recognized 3D street painting artist and founder of Art for After Hours, the first professional street painting art company in 2001. Clients include numerous corporate, exhibition, tradeshow, and festivals in the United States, Europe, Middle East, India, Asia, and the Americas. artforafterhours.com anthonycappetto.com
Happy New Year to Business of Street Painting readers!
Our first 3D street painting of 2018, 'Fire Snake in Glass Blocks' for Entrepreneurs' Organization New York.
The piece was done in a few hours in chalk for the family event on the West Side of Manhattan in the Hudson Yards area.
We were turbo charged to share the 3D piece with many young attendees receiving a positive message of achieving the goals and dreams in a fun, family setting.
I am listed as part of the Expo Activities -
Like the ongoing development in the area, Art for After Hours looks forward to creating our 3D and 4D concepts using augmented, virtual, and mixed reality for clients in tradeshows, launches and events - large and small.
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized artist working with 3D anamorphic illusions and Early Adopter of Emerging Technologies as part of his works.
As Founder of Art for After Hours, the first professional 3D street painting art company from 2001, he enjoys bringing his art to all regardless of location, size and complexity of art. Cappetto finds it very important to bring his art form to people of all walks of life, ages starting with the occasional local projects in his native area of New York City.
Art for After Hours and Cappetto's 3D/4D street art is completed for corporate, exhibition, tradeshow, event launch, not for profit, government and NGO clientele in Europe, Middle East, Asia, North and South America, and the USA.
Contact Cappetto at [email protected] to learn how we can tailor a full immersive 3D and 4D experience using augmented, virtual, mixed reality with our larger scale 3D anamorphic murals in paint, chalk, live, pre printed solutions.
With a new year underway, we look back at the 2017 3D and 4D pieces by internationally recognized artist Anthony Cappetto created around the US and around the world.
The art was fun to design, to create, and we look forward to more 3D art for our clients, returning and new.
New York Build: Javits Center, NYC
Inspired by the iconic 'Lunch Atop a Skyscraper', we created the steel beam hovering over Manhattan at a Building Tradeshow.
'Collapsing Ramp' Garden Grove, CA: A 3D chalk art piece tying in augmented reality (4D) seen through an onsite monitor. We used digital models of robots and fluttering flags of our client to bring human interaction (me on bicycle), the 3D hand drawn chalk art, and the augmented reality animation.
Sunflowers and dragonflies in Battery Park, NYC: A street art installation for an event for Battery Park City Parks in June.
'Freedom' Baltimore, MD: A social and political statement made to address the current atmosphere in the US with the concept of butterflies escaping oppression in any of its forms in September.
'Betta Fish Kite' Crewe, England, United Kingdom: Expressing the beauty and conceptuality of a fish kite hovering over the countryside at a festival in the UK last August.
'A Puzzling Reality' Tizarte Event in Antwerp, Belgium: A 3D street art piece using a purposely fading motif of a puzzle fading away to 'reality' and objects such as the sunflowers fading from higher resolution to simpler resolution. Our dragonflies were designed consistently at the same level across the piece to overlay/tie in the fadeaway concept.
' Refugee: Here but Not Here...': A serious piece address the issue of refugee children throughout the world, although we focused on Syria, South Sudan, and Myanmar. The child in an atmosphere of desolation enjoys a respite blowing bubbles (given to her by an aid worker) evanescent, temporal just as we feel for the child's plight but move on quickly - Here but Not Here...
LIC Beer Festival, Long Island City NYC: A sunny Fall day brought us to create this entertaining design with pumpkins, pretzels, and of course - beer!
This was a fun year with the art experimenting with tying in animated augmented reality, conceptual ideas, sociopolitical messages, and interacting with our public in the US and abroad.
A special thanks to Wendy Stum who assisted and collaborated with me on some of the pieces especially 'Freedom' and ' Refugee: Here but Not Here...'.
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized 3D street mural artist working in chalk and or paint as well as an early adopter of 4D emerging technologies such as augmented, virtual reality, mixed reality, and haptics. Cappetto is founder of Art for After Hours, the first 3D and 4D street art mural company in 2001 with many corporate, not for profit, exhibition, government, and NGO clients selecting for their projects and initiatives. His original hand drawn 3D art work has been created and drawn in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, North and South America, and throughout the USA.
Contact at acappetto@artforafterhours to discuss your upcoming 2018 projects.
Wendy Stum is Marketing Director for Art for After Hours and well versed in the street painting art industry having covered and assisted Anthony Cappetto in many street painting events and festivals in USA, UAE, and Mexico.
Contact at [email protected] with inquiries for festivals and exhibitions using Art for After Hours worldwide.
We've had a summer (and early Fall), series of 3D street art that has taken us back and forth from UK and Europe, to express a timely statement, and finally to bring 3D chalk art as local entertainment in our home base here in New York City.
This is the story-
Battery Park in New York City...
'Betta Fish Kite' in Crewe, England, U.K.
Sketch for 'Betta Fish Kite'
Wendy putting finishing touches on 'Freedom'...
'Freedom' - a statement on current socio-political climate done in Baltimore, MD
Sketch for 'Freedom' by Anthony Cappetto (with Wendy Stum)
'A Puzzling Reality...' - At 'Part of Antwerp' Art Festival in Antwerp, Belgium
Onsite in Antwerp...
Fall themed project for the Queens Beer Festival at LIC Flea in Long Island City, NY... Pumpkins, Pretzel, and a Big Beer!
A Reverse angle of the 3D art...
Sketch for Queens Beer Festival by Anthony Cappetto
Detail of chalk work on rougher surfaces...
Completed 3D chalk art piece...
Late Sunday afternoon in Long Island City with the Manhattan skyline in the distance. It was great to be able to do these 3D street art pieces in different places with fun, interesting people, creative artists from different parts of the world. Most exciting projects await!
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized street artist working in chalk and paint creating 3D and 4D (augmented and virtual reality) mural installations and projects. Founder of Art for After Hours, the first 3D 4D street painting art company in 2001. Cappetto has designed and led projects in 3D and 4D with corporate, festival, exhibition, institutional, not for profit, government, and non government organizations in United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, UAE, India, Japan,Uruguay, Mexico, and across the USA.
What a fun weekend for 3D chalk art - especially when you are doing a piece for the hometown crowd!
Did a 3D piece for the Queens Beer Festival at the LIC Flea & Food space in Long Island City, NY for a family based crowd over a two day period.
Let's see how the 3D came together!
With the backdrop of Manhattan as seen from Long Island City, we were set up and ready to start on a beautiful Fall day...
A 3D chalk art project from Anthony Cappetto and Art for After Hours starts with a concept sketch. We create our own designs working with our clients to meet their needs and goals for events and projects.
Starting the chalk layout on the pavement-
From sketching to rendering in chalk- Detail at Pumpkins...
Working on the pretzel-
Just as we completed on Sunday Afternoon-
3D chalk artist Anthony Cappetto posing atop the mason jar full of beer, with pumpkins,pretzels on a board. Notice the board seen through the mason jar filled with the beer of your choice...
A reverse view of the anamorphic illusion showing the way how the art is to be drawn to see the 3D illusion properly through your camera, tablet, or lens.
At the end of the festival, we got one last picture in of the completed 3D chalk art piece. It was a great weekend with families, food, and fun... Imagine your next 3D chalk art in food, drink, and entertainment. Discuss your project with Anthony Cappetto at Art for After Hours.
Anthony Cappetto is an internationally recognized artist known for his 3D illusionary works in chalk and paint. Founder of Art for After Hours, the first 3D street painting art company in 2001 bringing 3D projects in chalk, murals, and 4D installations using augmented and virtual reality to clients in corporate, festivals, exhibitions, tradeshow, conventions, government, and non government organizations worldwide. Cappetto has completed 3D and 4D chalk/street/mural art projects in England, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Dubai, India, Japan, Uruguay, Mexico, and across the USA.
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