Our process of hand-painted window art confers various advantages over both alternative means of display and competing methods of painting. The method we use creates a unique and striking layering that is designed to catch the eye of anyone walking by. The rich and vivid colours maintain their vitality throughout the lifespan of the work. Simultaneously durable and easily removed, our artworks are the pinnacle of convenience and reliability. Regardless of what British winter weather can throw at our paint, the art will not diminish, and yet our formulation is easily washed away by window cleaner or with some warm soapy water when you desire.
New Book About Window Painting and More on Halloween Painting
I have been slaving over a book about my window painting experience and techniques. It took me weeks of editing and tense moments to complete. I hand drew images and illustrations in Paint and Google Documents for explaining the directions. I worked with Word to sift out the important information needed and my goal has been met for the pre-holiday season. Yes, I cussed out all three of these programs as I went along, but I now have a Kindle version and a paperback book for sale! I wanted to be able to share my window painting techniques in such a manner that someone who does not even draw can pick up this tutorial and draw simple figures using lines and geometric shapes.
Window Paintings For Halloween
The hobby of window painting has been in my life for many decades. It delights me to share it when the seasons change and I know that painting for Halloween is close. I knock on doors and make phone calls to my previous clients. Often while I am painting, people ask me to paint next door. I love doing these paintings. The artwork I produce is a blend of realistic shading and cartoon imagery. Soon, the season will start again for window painters. The colorful paintings will appear on window panes to mark the holidays Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. They may extend beyond those holidays as well to celebrate Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s as well.
Misc Window Painting Information
The only thing I do not enjoy about the paintings is the cold that comes in late November around the time I clean off Fall paintings and change over to the Christmas seasonal decorations. I only dislike it because my hands get cold and wet and it makes painting a bit challenging, but that does not stop me. These window murals are an ordered series of drawings and painted layers and techniques. This information may all be found in the cover of my book. The Essential Window Painting Guide is a book for beginners in both drawing and the window painting technique. If you cannot draw, but would like to, stop by my website and pick up a PDF copy of the guide today at the website www.holidaywindowpaint.com.
Halloween painted pumpkins is a common theme in window painting for holidays
Halloween Paintings
Soon images like this will be painted for the Halloween season. I generally start painting about the beginning of October as the month has 31 days in it and that is plenty of time to enjoy the seasonal decorations. I love Halloween paintings and the delight that painting for this holiday is. I get some crazy ideas for window paning themes. Most of the time I do pumpkins for a generic Fall theme, but sometimes I get to do Jack O’ Lanterns and I really have a great time with those. The many shapes and sizes that pumpkins come in can be used with different faces and poses. I enjoy painting ghosts and trick or treaters roaming through graveyards of pumpkin patches.
I have several favorite icons for Halloween paintings, but the most frequent favorite is this funny faced pumpkin with the frightened face and the spider crawling on his face. I like painting a big bully pumpkin next to him that laughs at the scared little gourd. These were some of my original images when I began painting windows for more that the Christmas themes. The designs came to me as I cleaned the windows and set up the panes for the panting I would be adding to the glass.
The year I first did Halloween paintings I believe was 1988.. I had been working for a pizza restaurant that had several chain stores in the area and I was able to decorate the whole set of pizza parlors. I painted for a lounge next door to one of these eateries and I really enjoyed that series of paintings. The glass was tinted on the inside and the black windows really make the paintings leap off of the frames.
Happy Halloween greeting painted at the bottom of a set of tinted windows.
The festive celebration
Whether or not your business sells products or provides services that will be directly tied to the festive season, this time of year remains the perfect opportunity to drive attention to your shopfront and footfall through your high street business. No matter the nature of what you are providing, a coordinated advertising campaign, with interactive elements, will make you a local point of interest.
Any advertising team worth consulting would be able to identify this need during the holiday period but proposing an effective solution to this challenge is not so simple, especially during such a period where your competitors (other high street businesses) are likewise working hard to be seen. To stand out, to engage with the community whilst transcending its standards, you need an aesthetic, engaging feature to your brick-and-mortar appearance that demands social participation and inherently propagates brand awareness.
The Reality of Hand-Painted Window Art – Case Studies of Our Work
We all know how easy it is, when walking down a high street or through a shopping centre, to passively acknowledge the surrounding decorations and themed accoutrements, but you want something more than a pretty addition to your shopfront. You need a unique, functional, festive decoration that both celebrates the holiday and draws attention to your business in particular.
Xmas retail window display ideas in London
Providing effective advertising campaigns via artistic means is our specialism, it’s what we strive to do and it’s what we take pride in. This is the age of interactivity, and we are capitalising on that through novel high street window art installations. Take our work at Lawrence Rand estate agency, where our Christmas themed window art was paired with a touchscreen that any member of the public could use. We were able to give festive greetings to all whilst drawing in a unique kind of interaction on the high street. This blending of urban art and advertising technology drove community engagement and provided a memorable experience. Consequently, there was an ideal blend of social enrichment and aesthetic development within the community, resulting in a very successful Christmas window art painting campaign.
Another example of our interactive artwork was at Wraps&Wings, where we adorned the painted glass with a beautiful winter scene, featuring a quaint village, a towering Christmas tree, and a happy snow man. The seminal part of this piece was the Instagram selfie board. This encouraged locals to take and post a selfie of themselves with the mock-up of an Instagram post in view behind them, which in turn gave them a 20% discount. Naturally, people were motivated to receive the money off and spread word of the restaurant through the community. With the prevalence of social media, this is exactly the kind of marketing that works and raises awareness. And, though this was only a seasonal window art installation, there are clear long-term benefits because of the nature of the interaction. This interactive required clear action on the part of the customer and will linger in their memory. Moreover, that window advertising art installation lives on long after its removal in the form of posts and hashtags that will endure as sites for further discovery and engagement.
Local artist spreads Christmas cheer with festive window paintings
IDAHO FALLS — When Cheryl Cline puts on her overalls and grabs her painting supplies, it’s anybody’s guess what the end result will be.
Cline paints the windows of many east Idaho businesses, especially this time of year. As an artist she says she has the best gig in town, because business owners give her creative license to paint whatever comes to her.
“I stare at the window and start painting,” Cline said. “Some business owners will say they saw my painting on another window and they want something similar, or they want a Santa, but the rest is up to me.”
Cline, the owner of Overall Artistry, regularly paints Motel West, The Sandwich Tree, Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, Wackerli’s, Lincoln Court, Plum Loco, Scotty’s, Ferrell’s Clothing, and a number of other businesses and homes from Rexburg to Blackfoot.
She paints other things too, but business windows are highly visible and have become a tradition for the holidays. As a young girl, painting windows of homes at Christmas was a tradition passed onto her from her mother and grandmother.
“I remember watching my mom paint windows,” she said. Cline took a few art classes in high school, but says her talent comes from within.
On one occasion, her husband had a business that needed its windows painted and so Cline got to work. Painting a scene on the window came naturally and it was obvious that she had a real talent for it.
After that word of mouth spread quickly and in 1997 Cline started painting the windows of other businesses around town. For many clients, they want her to return to paint their windows in the spring, summer, fall, and of course, at Christmas.
Her window paintings are often festive and fun, but other times businesses want her to help them advertise promotions or sales. Either way, while painting is how she earns her income, it’s also a way of life for her.
“It’s my therapy,” she said.
This time of year the weather can be a hindrance for outdoor work; once it gets below 15 degrees, Cline’s paints start to freeze and her hands feel the effects of the frigid east Idaho winter weather. But she wouldn’t trade her job for the world.
“It brings businesses to life,” she said. “It spreads joy.”
