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Mispillion Art League hosts the Big Draw

Extra sand from the sandcastle made a convenient play area for Cora Bailey, 3, of Harrington, to concoct sand art of her own. RYAN MAVITY PHOTOS
Ryan Mavity
October 23, 2019
Sand carver Darrell O’Connor looks over his work-in-progress.
The front side of O’Connor’s sandcastle.
A canvas was laid on Park Avenue in Milford for feet painting. Kids were encouraged to dip their feet in paint and leave their footprints, as well as walk, run and stomp their way around the canvas.
Lily Apostlos, 6, of Viola, leaves her footprints on the canvas. More than 70 different footprints were recorded on the foot-painting canvas.
Alexa Caccamise, 6, of Milford, partakes in chalk art on the sidewalks of Park Avenue.

A month-long celebration of art in Milford, the Big Draw Festival, is taking place throughout October.

Mispillion Art League is hosting classes and events on painting, drawing, photography, woodwork, dance, make-up and clay. But the big attraction are the Saturday events, free to the public and featuring a different theme each week.

On Oct. 12, the league invited people to Take It To The Street. Park Avenue was closed to allow kids to partake in chalk-drawing on the sidewalk, street painting using only their feet, filling in the league’s mandala mural or helping sand carvers Andy West and Darrell O’Connor build a large sandcastle. 

The Big Draw Festival kicked off Oct. 5 at Milford Farmers Market with pumpkin painting, community painting and sketching postcards for patients at Bayhealth’s Sussex County campus. Work also began on the mandala mural - not related to Nelson Mandela - but instead a Persian-influenced style of circular wall designs. This mural is on the Park Avenue side of the league’s facility at the corner of Park and North Walnut Street.

The next Big Draw free event will be Art In The Park, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 19, along the Riverwalk in downtown Milford. Art stations will include scribble art, sketching along the Riverwalk and sketching boats at the Vinyard Shipyard. The final Big Draw Saturday will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Oct. 26, Let Your Imagination Run, which includes free creativity stations and history drawings at the Milford Museum. 

For more information, visit www.mispillionarts.org/big-draw-de or www.facebook.com/thebigdrawde2019.

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Ryan Mavity covers Milton and the court system. He is married to Rachel Swick Mavity and has two kids, Alex and Jane. Ryan started with the Cape Gazette all the way back in February 2007, previously covering the City of Rehoboth Beach. A native of Easton, Md. and graduate of Towson University, Ryan enjoys watching the Baltimore Ravens, Washington Capitals and Baltimore Orioles in his spare time.

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