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My Latest Monsterpiece

9/24/2017

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Classic Movie Monsters in Canine Form

dog characters dressed as classic movie monsters - the mummy, bride of Frankenstein, and vampire Dracula
Dog characters dressed up as classic movie monsters
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.

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Ready Set Halloween

10/9/2016

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Painting for Halloween begins its season in early October.  I like to start with the businesses that are furthest away from my home and get them squared up and decorated so that the travel time does not interfere with what quickly becomes an impossible schedule. The video below is a typical day with a window painting artist. I highlight sections that are important so that the process is documented and I can later create a smooth video using these video journals as guides. 
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Old Holiday Halloween Paintings

9/13/2014

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Halloween launches the window painting season in Fall. The Autumn palette is an ideal opportunity to share talent in funny and lovely images related to the season.

I recently ran across this photograph from 1988 of a Halloween painting I designed for a real estate office. I was able to paint most of the stores in that shopping center and I thoroughly enjoyed the Halloween themed project.
Halloween Window Painting
M Burgess window painting artist with her Halloween window painting from 1988 featuring a black cat, Happy Halloween greeting, and a Fall pumpkin.
Painting windows is my very favorite art project. It is a way to showcase my artistic talent and sometimes my sense of humor. The above photo also shares my love of animals. That cat is not very scary. In fact I think it had an amusing smile on its face. The changing seasons also change on the color pallet. The standard colors for Halloween blend with the Fall Season and can drift into the Thanksgiving holiday easily if you paint certain elements in the generic Fall motif. 

Transition into a generic fall pattern would involve simply removing the Halloween images ie. the cat, the moon, and the greeting. Scrape carefully around the leaves and there is a simple Autumn design left behind. 

The directions to basic window painting techniques are listed for an easy, follow along guide using Christmas images in my book. Get started today window painting with The Essential Window Painting Guide.
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Halloween is near!

9/7/2014

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Halloween paintings can be done as soon as the kids are back in school. Use the traditional black and orange colors with highlights of neon for vibrant decoration.

Halloween brings the best creepy decor in the holiday line up. The colors are striking as elements of the season burst forth in orange and black and purple. Popular images include Jack O' Lanterns and scaredy cats, ghosts and goblins of all shapes and sizes. When I set out for a decorating project, I do it in paint and with a creative streak that usually has myself and observers amused. You see, I am a window painter. Window painting is not just for Christmas. It is for any occasion or event one wants to create art for. I love Halloween for the simple, silly faces I can create on window glass. Here are some of my paintings for this seasonal celebration. 
Halloween window painting, pumpkins, spiders, web, orange, green, leaves
Halloween images from 2013's seasonal decor. Pumpkins and creepy spiders dress the windows of a real estate office.
Painted Jack O' Lanterns dress up an office window
Jack O' Lanterns leer at one another in a window painting for the Halloween holiday season.
These images are the development of a skill I began over 30 years ago. Practicing brush strokes and working with paints and brushes brought me to this skill level. A slight talent for creative thinking accompanied my actions, but it was the repetition this level in my art. Time and practice can make anyone an artist with the desire to do so. Learn more about these techniques using the Essential Window Painting Guide tutorial.
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    Maria Burgess lives in Las Vegas with her family. As if her life isn't crazy enough as a Chauffeur in this wild city, she dons a Santa hat at Holiday Time and paints the town red, white, and green as far as she can go!

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