Gray skies or not, the world was a bright place for Lawrence artists Sunday.

The 45th annual Art in the Park event stocked South Park walkways with more than 100 vendors from all over the area, selling everything from home-sewn scarves to surreal birdhouses.

“I’ve done really well here,” Jenny Gadzia of Lawrence said as she tended her jewelry booth.

The Lawrence Art Guild put the whole thing together, gathering slides and application fees from would-be merchants months in advance, then spending the day organizing the event from early-morning arrivals to the final art contest.

The result Sunday was both the guild’s largest single-day fundraiser and the city’s largest art event.

But first, there were the dogs.

Across Massachusetts Street from the art booths, locals and their athletic pups played some competitive Frisbee fetch, complete with an emcee announcing scores and theme music for the performances.

The disc dog competition brought out the area’s best human-dog Frisbee combos. Since pairing up with Art in the Park 14 years ago, the disc dog event has bloomed into an annual happening with spectators both human and beast cheering from the sidelines.

Jeromy Morris and Quinn Barnard brought their “rookie,” Vincent, to scope out possible future competition.

“He’s more street than competition,” Morris said.

Ryan Neis and his pup Luna were more than ready. The seasoned competitors won first place in the competition over 22 other dogs.

Back across the street, past the wall of vendors hawking several combinations of fried bread and hot dogs, the festival overflowed with homespun crafts.

Debbie Riley was there, selling a menagerie of handmade metal animals meant to be pinned on a lapel. There were plenty of dogs, but then there were fairly odd ones: a squid here, a frog ballerina there.

“I just try to cover them all,” Riley said.

The little dancing frog must have been calling Lawrence resident Louise Smith, who spent about five seconds scanning Riley’s table before picking it out of the crowd.

“I bought an Elvis frog here before,” Smith told Riley. Apparently, Smith’s sister has a nice frog collection going.

Other vendors sold jewelry and pottery, paintings and prints to a crowd that, by day’s end, had likely grown into the thousands.

Across the South Park lawn, Mikki Sale browsed through a maze of tables and stopped briefly at one covered in necklaces.

She already had stocked up on photographs, a handcrafted mug and other knickknacks. Her son, Adam, even snagged a surprise Mother’s Day gift for her.

Sale was here for the shopping – leaving dad to his own devices back home – but Adam was here for one thing: funnel cakes.

“That,” Sale said, “is the icing on the cake.”