At the last workshop you had the opportunity to experience the beauty, excitement and joy of Professional Christmas Window Art by seasoned veterans Jo-Anna and Tim with over 25 years experience.
You had the opportunity to learn 7 Simple Tools and Techniques to create fun family festive joy and cheer painting your own Christmas Window Art and experiencing creative memories that will last a lifetime giving your children a sense of pride.
- Prepare your window surface by cleaning it well.
- Tape your Window Art Stencil to the outside of the window.
- Trace your Window Art Stencil on the inside of the glass with the marker.
- Add white and blue highlights and shadows
- Paint in colors.
- Add white border.
- Add snowflakes (optional)
I truly love Christmas. It is a very magical time of year. Christmas automatically brings smiles to people’s faces and smiling is contagious. Christmas brings out the little child in us all.
After 25 years of helping Santa spread Christmas joy and cheer while painting Christmas Window Art, I have noticed that 99.9% of the time Christmas brings joy to people.
Their eyes light up with joy and enthusiasm.
I feel very blessed to know that Christmas Window Art inspires people to feel such joy.
We love to spread joy and cheer feeling it back as we always have store customers thanking us for decorating the windows. Maybe that sounds altruistic but the Spirit of Christmas opens the heart.
Let’s have a look at Decorating your home with Christmas Window Art and how it is going to transform your entire Christmas experience.
If you are a homeowner, you will be the envy of the neighborhood with professional Classic Christmas Window Art.
Your children will experience great pride with their fun professional Christmas Window Art.
You will create fun family memories and traditions with Christmas Window Art.
As an artist you can turn your passion for art into spreading Christmas joy and cheer possibly earning quick Christmas Cash.
As a store owner your customers will love your display of Christmas Window Art.
Here are some of the tools that are very important to have in your paint box when you are painting Window Art.
I start by taping my Window Art Stencil to the outside of the clean window. I always used a stencil when I first started.
I reused it over and over again. I treat my stencils with great care. I still have stencils that I made 25 years ago.
I no longer use them but I don’t want to discard them yet.
I use a permanent marker to trace the Window Art Stencil on the inside of the windows. The permanent marker comes off glass easily because glass is not porous. Do not use it on wood or plastic as it is permanent on these surfaces.
As Window Art is on glass, I always use acrylic paint when I am painting on the inside of the window. Acrylic paint is easy to remove but will stay up for years. Acrylic paint comes in many different colors and is translucent letting light shine through and illuminating at night.
Being trained as a hand lettering sign painter has given us the ability to write backwards on glass from the inside.
This is a very intricate skill that must be practiced to obtain the technique and style.
I always paint a white border around the pictures that I draw on the glass.
This technique allows the picture to STAND OUT on the glass.
When looking at a window during the daytime it always looks black and unless you put a white border around your picture the dark colors are hard to see.
I always paint Christmas Window Art during the day light. When it is night time you cannot see the black marker on the glass thus making it very difficult to paint the picture.
Mixing colors is a delicate process but is essential to learn. One of the most common colors I need to mix is flesh for Santa’s face.
Here is a simple recipe for this soft color. On a palette or in a tray mix 2 drops of red acrylic and 3 drops of yellow together mixing well, then add several drops of white until you get the shade you are trying to make.
Shadow and highlight are put on the glass before any other color goes on. The shadow and highlight colors give the picture dimension and style.
Be sure to let these shadows and highlights dry well before painting over with other colors.
Be certain to clean your brushes, sponges and rollers well so that the next time you want to use them they are ready to use.
This is a very important step and one that you must not ignore.
These are some of the very important tools and tricks that we use every time we paint professional Christmas Window Art.
Take your time and do a good job that you will be proud to share with everyone.
Remember it washes off with water and you can always fix any mistake.
I am going to do a third Window Art and Creativity workshop on Saturday Nov. 28, 11a.m.
Come join us as we go deeper with more tools, tricks and techniques as well as ways to enhance your own Christmas Window Art display and experience.
Shine Brightly…
Jo-Anna & Tim
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