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Best Of Christmas Window Paintings 2015 - Part 1

6/5/2016

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

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

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

Right Side Door Wreath

Happy Holidays greeting painted on lower door

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

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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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.

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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The weather outside is The Design for window painting

12/5/2013

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Using winter weather is a fun way to decorate for the holidays.

snow scene window painting with different scenes of snow play: skating, sledding, snowman building, making a snow angel. Image: M Burgess - window painter

Snow scene with people skating, building a snowman, sledding, and making a snow angel. Window painting design and photo - M Burgess

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.

In this scene you can see a father and son building a snowman and two girls ice skating.

Snowman and ice skating panel - Image: M Burgess

Snowman and ice skating scene

And we have the sledding boy ready to make his mark on the mountain:

Sledding kid

Here we have the snow angel kid.

Snow angel

Can you see how the snow is fluffy on the top of this section? I did that by stippling with a larger, regular, old paintbrush. I like doing that better than spray snow. Spray snow has a tendency to stain with the oils and chemicals that are in it, but the paint I use washes away easily come the first of the year.

For information on how to get started painting window designs like these, visit my home page here and buy my tutorial, The Essential Window Painting Guide. It will teach you everything you need to know to begin your season of window painting. If you cannot draw, it will teach you a few ways to get started there, too!

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Best Of Christmas Window Paintings 2015 - Part 1

Old Holiday Halloween Paintings

Halloween is near!

The weather outside is The Design for window painting

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