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Dean gives away more pastels to neighbors and friends to inspire another day of painting pastel art on the concrete sidewalk squares of his Venice Beach, California walkstreet.

Imagination runs wild in the shower. Mother Earth Day brings a pastel party outside on the walkstreet in Venice Beach. Dean gives away his chalk and invites MTV Real World Venice Beach stars into the pastel party.

After a pastel party Anneka stays to have a look at Dean's fantasy pastel paintings. Before long the two artists embrace as if magnetized and tumble as a couple onto the floor.

The shared creativity and fingerpainting opens the artists up to communicating with one another about the first time they had intercourse. Their stories range from amusing to magical to painful, though all help to provide insight into a pivotal moment in the development of each human being.

The community art experience ends and a discussion begins about what the participants consider art to be. Anneka thinks that the result of the experience is not art, but instead the result of a fun evening of play.

The show opens with the arrival of an artist in red who skates up with a manform. She is creatively blocked due to the stress of preparing for an upcoming show and seeks the help of the community art participants at Dean's pastel party apartment on a walkstreet located between the Pacific and the canals of Venice Beach, California.

Sultry actress Anneka Lucas (woman in red) and passionate Janine Arbelaz (in purple) prepare for their first take as the "Pastel Party" heats up on the first night's shooting, maintaining humor while rehearsing between takes.

It's the first night of shooting "Pastel Party" and the crew has gotten everything in place. As the director, writer and lead actor, Dean Adams Curtis has to balance many important aspects of the production at once, while still remaining focused on his performance.

Here's Sophie the Script Supervisor's excellent instruction about how to mark a script so that your editor will be able to utilize it effectively during the editing process.

Paul the Editor and Dave the Actor talk with Jon the Cinematographer about Oliver Stone's movie "The Doors" while Janine Arbelaz and another actress prepare for to go before the cameras.