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Painting for Harvest Fun

11/24/2017

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Fall Leaf Shapes

fall leaf shapes painted on window glass
Fall Leaf Paintings
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.
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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!?

Fall Festivities

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.
fall themed pumpkin paintings
Fall Scene Pumpkins
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.
Pumpkin patch painting with vines, pumpkins, leaves, fence posts, and a crow
Pumpkin Patch and Naughty Bird the crow

Fall Lettering

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.
Fall Cornucopia Design with Thanksgiving Greeting
Cornucopia Painting Design with Thanksgiving Greeting
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.
Celebrate Fall Window Splash Greeting
Celebrate Fall Window Splash Greeting
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.


Learn more about window painting with the artist's tutorial The Essential Window Painting Guide found on this site's homepage. Thank you for visiting!

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Best Of Christmas Window Paintings 2015 - Part 1

6/5/2016

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The best of window paintings for the 2015 winter and Christmas season by artist and author Maria Burgess.

Pizza Rock Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada Christmas Window Painting Image Collage - Image and art M Burgess
Pizza Rock Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada Christmas Window Painting Image Collage
Sorting through hundreds of images takes a lot of time and effort if you take pictures like I do. I take before, during, and after shots of all my artwork. I have to. After the holiday is over it is left as a mess on paper towels and colorful water. It is destroyed intentionally.  It is my desire to preserve the steps and the art for future reference and cataloging. I am finally ready to post my best of's for the Winter and Christmas holiday painting season. 

It was my privilege to paint not only downtown at a new location, but I did a set of images for the Green Valley Ranch location of Pizza Rock. This is a big deal for me because I have yet to leave my art on such an establishment. It was an honor to be represented here. I have been in Las Vegas for over 30 years and have always envied the artists who got to paint hotel windows. This year, I was hired to do a pizza place, which to me is the next best thing. 

The first location was an interior project at GVR. The separation windows and doors were to be decorated for the seasonal celebration. I chose Santa (though I dread painting him - he turned out smashing this year!) and the traditional standby Snowman. These I did with a twist on the pizza theme. The snowman was tossing dough and the Santa was taking a pizza to go on his merry way. 
Pizza Rock - Green Valley Ranch
Santa with a Pizza Rock pizza to go - Image and art M Burgess
Santa with a Pizza Rock pizza to go
Dough tossing snowman - window painting art and image: M Burgess
Dough tossing snowman
Similar designs were used on both businesses and the doors were painted to match as well. I cannot tell you how tough it is to get really good photographs of window paintings. Lighting is always an issue and so is point of view.
Pizza Rock - Downtown, Las Vegas, Nevada
Left Side Door Wreath
Left Side Door Wreath
Right Side Door Wreath
Right Side Door Wreath
Happy Holidays greeting painted on lower door
Happy Holidays greeting painted on lower door
Candles, holly, and pine decor
Candles, holly, and pine decor
Full window painting theme - Pizza Rock Downtown Las Vegas
Full holiday window painting scene - Pizza Rock Downtown Las Vegas
Side windows with candle paintings
Side windows with candle paintings
These were just a few of the window painting projects for Christmas 2015. 
Learn more about window painting in the book The Essential Window Painting Guide here on the website - read more...
BEST OF CHRISTMAS WINDOW PAINTINGS 2015 - PART 2

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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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