My mom used to paint our windows at Christmas time. I remember lambs, shepherds and stars adorning our windows for many years. It was a special tradition for us, and I wanted to introduce my girls to the "art" of window painting for Halloween.
Cailin loves drawing in the Japanese anime style, so I found a cute picture of an anime girl and her faithful pumpkin sidekick. I printed it out and enlarged it with my beloved art projector. (Another treasure found in our storage items.) The girls were so excited to paint. The unveiling of the final masterpiece (removal of newspaper tracing) was fun. I'm sure we will be doing lots more window painting for the holidays. I just need to find some better quality paints - we were having trouble with opacity.
I am back in the girls' good graces. We once again got the paints out - this time for some Hello Kitty Pilgrim goodness.
Here we are in the basement tracing our pattern onto some paper that we will tape to the outside of our window.
And the final product from outside looking in. Cailin did a great job freehanding the backwards lettering!
I painted our front window yesterday. The girls are mad at me for doing it while they were at school. I promised them they can still do their Thanksgiving Hello Kitty on our dining room window. We have plenty of time, since they are out of school for the next 3 days due to parent teacher conferences.
My mom used to paint our windows at Christmas time. I remember lambs, shepherds and stars adorning our windows for many years. It was a special tradition for us, and I wanted to introduce my girls to the "art" of window painting for Halloween.
Cailin loves drawing in the Japanese anime style, so I found a cute picture of an anime girl and her faithful pumpkin sidekick. I printed it out and enlarged it with my beloved art projector. (Another treasure found in our storage items.) The girls were so excited to paint. The unveiling of the final masterpiece (removal of newspaper tracing) was fun. I'm sure we will be doing lots more window painting for the holidays. I just need to find some better quality paints - we were having trouble with opacity.
