Life-size 3D chalk illusions
A walkway opens into a painted pool or portal
Kathleen Joy Roling
Kathleen Joy Roling creates life-size and larger optical-illusion chalk artwork on floors or walls for event commissions. Guests can watch a flat surface become a photographic illusion of a pool, hole or portal. The same artist separately offers live wedding paintings.
Current location note / listed area: Des Moines, Iowa; additional locations by inquiry only
The explicit wedding offer is live painting; confirm a 3D chalk commission specifically for your wedding rather than assuming it is included. Agree on design, creation time, surface permissions, viewing point, cleanup and weather backup. Worldwide travel language does not establish additional state bases.
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- Iowa · based
Owned 3D chalk page expressly says Kathleen is based in Des Moines, Iowa and accepts event bookings; footer repeats Des Moines IA50310.