The colors brown, tan, red, and amber yellow define the designs of Fall. Detailed and wildly cut leaves dress the season. Trees loaded with these accents adorn roadways and fields. Including them in painted scenes dazzle the eye and imagination. Designing window dressings using these shapes and reminders may present odd challenges. The leaf shapes are curious and wonderful. They may be mottled ot spotted with alternate colors. Edging them with a striking color defines their character.

The scenes above and below each feature three carefully sculpted leaf shapes common in New England fall. Although, this artist has never seen them personally, the images are plentiful on things like greeting cards and seasonal advertising. The burgundy red maple leaf would have offset the yellow and browns here nicely. As is, the rich tan and deep brown lined with yellow hue present a sweet decoration celebrating the cool weather season.

Oak leaf and maple leaves are seen most often depicting Fall. They help accent lettering, corners, and borders in glass window painting. Add varied and plain leaves to the mix and create a sweet scene celebrating the change of seasons. Painted swirling lines give the feeling of falling leaves and a gentle sweep on the window. Who doesn't like playing in a pile of leaves!?

Harvest festivals and Halloween are significant in Fall celebrations. Corn, apples, and pumpkins are ripe for picking and the days change to cooler temps. Our thoughts are turned to keeping warm and stocking our pantry and wood piles for winter.

Pumpkins dominate Fall side by side with this season's colorful leaves. They are squat and square, plump and round, or tall and flat bottomed. The fun of pumpkins is that they can be any shape you want them to be. They can be varied in color from deep red-orange to yellow. Texture is common in the skins. Their leaves twine around them in vining spirals and sturdy stems. The leaf color is a brownish green and they are round in composition. Leave the jack o' lantern faces off of them to stretch the season until winter scenes are needed.

Lettering for Fall season should reflect the pallet colors and define the sentiment offered. Letters should be clear and spaced evenly. A variety of fonts may be used to reflect a cheery greeting unless a spooky one is needed for Halloween.

Lettering is by far the hardest element of window painting. It needs to be even and straight. The height and width need to be matched appropriately and it needs to be level. The artist here uses a font specific to handwriting and alternates the colors of the season. The lettering is then outlined in a bubble border enclosing the greeting in a cloud of letters.

Yellow is a great color for representing the Fall season. Choose this hue for areas that may need brightening because of shadows or for a general seasonal salute. The Harvest greeting is trimmed with leaf clusters to complete the cheery greeting and accent the season.

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I spent many of my younger days watching the monsters of early Hollywood. They were a favorite activity on a late Saturday night. The music and scenery would set the mood for a scary hour or two and possible sleep troubles. It was thrilling watching villain and hero or heroine upon the tv screen. As I got older the films were silly, but endearing. It was just too much fun getting caught up in the story lines.

The Halloween season gives me an opportunity to give back some of that monster love. In a scene I titled Monster Piece, the elements of three of these monstrous characters are painted as dogs dressed for seasonal display. The charming canine monsters are true to their form with the exception of smiles where ghoulish frowns distorted frightening faces. These are happy monsters and creating them affected me in a fantastic way. I get one "masterpiece" a season and so far this is the one. I'll lovingly photograph it inch by inch and render it to canvas after painstaking pencil sketches are made of it. This a way to preserve the design in a permanent manner. Once the holiday is over, the scene is washed away forever.

The dogs are borrowed from the summer seasonal painting I delivered as an initial project. They will be included in future paintings and remain as the store's cartoon family. Tailoring appropriate individual scenes helps the inspiration spiral into unique and fun imagery.

This year marks a pair of firsts for this artist. This is my debut with Fourth of July images AND painting in record breaking heat. As excited as I was to have this opportunity, it was a daunting task and a physical challenge I've not yet experienced. Regardless of the weather challenges, my paintings were completed and the reviews are good. I've just won a new client and dazzled a frequent favorite.

​Ok, so my flag is crooked and the stars are screwy but it fits my painting style. It worked the way it was supposed to and that's the point. Bright and festive images were applied to the focal point of the business and the kids loved it. Besides a small earning with the art, why else would I do this? Putting a smile on a kids' face young or old is a priceless earning...

Ask anyone who has been by my side in a project and they will tell you that I am seriously challenged when it comes to lettering. I am very vocal about it. It is a skill I envy in other artists. It is a talent and a gift for some and nemesis for an artist like myself. Some artists have a knack for it. I do not, but I work with what I can to create an acceptable greeting.

​Here, I've combined cursive introduction and closure with a simple and bold font for the center of the greeting. I crafted this out one line and curve at a time using a marker and yardstick. Line by line, I centered my phrase and filled in a block shape for each bold letter and added polished form as a finishing touch. A simple angle smoothed the blocked letters out and the flares refined the individual letters further. The colorful line decor was done using the edge of the yardstick and a mechanical pencil to draft the lines in a balanced manner. A straight line cut through the entire word and left a guideline to fill with alternating color.

Fireworks are great details to use for the Fourth celebration and in welcoming New Year's. I chose vibrant fluorescent lines and dashes to mimic the firey displays. Prior to creating the motion and shapes, a tooth brush splatter was added in a bright orange. Flipping the paint in speckles and a few splatters as a backdrop helped create the illusion of sparks and bursts normally seen with fireworks.

Odd numbered lines and arcs gave the image shape and flow. I started with seven lines then alternated colors where needed. I'm looking forward to creating more of these and developing a certain pattern template. This whole series was experimental and I'm happy with the way they turned out. The only downside was trying to capture them in picture with my cell phone camera. The reflections on the glass proved to be difficult to avoid.

A blank set of windows await their Fall window painting theme

The weather outside is...
delightful when you concoct a scene like this in window painting with people being busy in the snow. It is the season for window painting. I love to create this effect with the snowy slopes and trees. I particularly love painting snow scenes because Las Vegas --where I live -- does not get snow often and when we do get it, the snow is never enough to build snowmen or sled on. We have to go to the mountains for snow play.


There are so many designs you can throw together using the favorites from the holidays, even weather.  I love the goofy look on that poor girl who just fell on the skating rink ice. Did she get pushed or is she just a bit clumsy? 


This set of images is from a doctor's office I have been painting for some time. They love the snow scenes with skaters and snowman building and general snow play.