The City of Alahambra Float Gets a Face!

The art department in the float barn is working just as fast, if not faster than the welders. It is their job to take a white sculpture and make it colorful. The crazy thing is how quickly things change when a paintbrush is in their hands.

I mean take a look at the City of Alhambra float. This picture was taken at 9:20am.

I turned around and by 10:42am the bear’s face was completely detailed and painted. There was no one around. It was like it just magically appeared!

A number of shades of brown were used to give the bear his cute face!

In all seriousness, the art department takes a lot of time to make sure the floats are painted with just the right color.

In fact, five artists will apply more than 700 gallons of colorful paints to the floats before decoration begins.

The painted areas then act as a canvas for all of our decorators to use in covering the floats with colorful flowers and natural materials!