Window Painting is for Any Reason

There's many reasons to paint up the windows on a business. Perhaps the image announces a coming event?

This is a cool mural I painted for a Fright Shop in Kamuela, Hawaii (also called Waimea) at Tutu's House.

I so much enjoy the Halloween season.

This was part of a much larger mural covering four eight foot panes, but the people in the restaurant liked the castle with the limo out front the best because it shimmered in silver.

Once Halloween is over, there's the time when Christmas images are too early. 

As a subject that covers the time between Halloween and autumn, pumpkins, crows and scarecrows do a pretty good job.

Your business might have a window that's covered up because something else has been installed on the other side of it. These are perfect for a mural on glass related to your business! 

This was for a hunting, camping and fishing store that wanted people to enjoy the great outdoors...

This was a restaurant where the people just enjoyed having seasonal flowers painted on their windows....and below in a barber shop where they wanted cool little scenes about what sort of weather is happening.

I can also do images related to a specific theme as a portrait. This shop owner was also an herbalist. 

These flowers look sort of like generic daisies, but they are actually echinacea purpurea.

 

These flowers caught the light really nicely in the afternoon sun. It lit up the painted colors sort of like a stained glass window, lit from the back side.



After the autumn trees drop their leaves....

 ....Then comes
COOKING TURKEYS! They really liked this cartoon I made for them on a bake shop.

Whether you decide on a mural to cover a blank wall or just something to give your business a little color, it's always a cool thing to have work from a real artist!

Let me know if you'd like me to paint something temporary that can last years on your windows (with a bit of touch-up) by texting: 

808 three three three -3966

Doodling as an Art

 Many decades ago, I loved to make paisley patterns.  Recently, my brother returned to me copies of things he saved of my artwork from when I was only fourteen years old. He had used my illustrations as tickets and framing his posters for a movie he'd shot about surfing. 
I thought... Oh, maybe I could do more of that sort of thing...

Then I discovered that since then, some artists had turned the fine art of doodling into a way of teaching people to make art. They originated this "step out" process to show people what to do to make cool illustrations. 

Here's an illustration I did when I attended one of these classes. Of course, it was pretty ironic to pay to learn how to do something that I'd been already doing since I was fourteen years old! 

It was cool though that some artists had codified this process into a series of art classes, which allowed artists to get paid to teach art to other people...who enjoyed doing it as a form of "mindfulness." It's called "ZenTangle" and there are piles of books on doing it at the library these days. I checked out ALL of them - and I have enjoyed immensely looking at all of these variations on doodling.  

I love the experience of being in art classes. In fact, I think I studied art just because I enjoyed the environment of making art with other people...who were making art alongside me. As it turned out, I didn't really enjoy making art when I had to sit there by myself. Even now, I prefer making art where I can talk to people who can see me making the art.

Of course, nowadays, we have fun things such as video blogging while you're doing whatever you'd like to be doing.  Maybe I should skip doing this blog with photos and start publishing what I've been doing on Periscope.tv  Here I was just doodling and talking about resisting what we love to do...

https://www.periscope.tv/w/1OyJAplwrwNGb

Hope you enjoy that I'm posting on my blog again... 

Graphic Recording

Lots of people this time of year think about the coming year ahead and what they want to do. It's the time people tend to get calendars and start planning their lives.

Illustrating Your Ideas As a Poster

...not only gives you ways to preserve them in a picture form.  This can also work to attractively organize and present them to others, once it's colored (or designed to be colored by the student.) The idea of "Graphic Recording" came from speakers who wanted more engagement from their audience. So they hit on the idea of having an artist/sign maker illustrate what they're saying in real time as they're saying it.

Here's my "sketch notes" from information that I'd like others to remember and use like a tool in their back pocket that I enjoy teaching. (It's about how to "fool" established routines so you can sift them out of what you want to retain.  If you're curious, you can see better what's in the notes by clicking on it to enlarge it.)

 But it's just a pencil sketch. Mostly I finish these later in color. Or I turn these into some sort of "homework" fun that the student can color themselves to help remember the information as an activity of study. Put it on the fridge!

In this form, it's just an example of how information can be organized so it can be remembered easier and referenced later, giving an example of potential for usefulness. Hope you enjoy your New Year potential!! 

Window Painting Technicalities

Holiday Window Painting - it's a great way to decorate your business without taking up floor space!

Here's where I did a series of simple wreaths.
I don't often get to paint on white etched windows, which is this first example. Most of the time these windows are frosted on the inside so it makes the outside is easy to clean. (You can remove my painting with sprayed 50% alcohol.) 
Most of the time when a window is decorated by painting on it, the background of the window appears as a dark, sometimes almost black. If you want the designs to show up when your business is open at night time, it works best to use a flood light on the surface of the window to bring out the design. In fact, sunlight on a window will make the design look like "stain glass"  - the colors will be spectacularly lit up from the inside!

Like snowflakes, I can vary wreaths to be every one slightly different. You can have them all match using the same color or design...or, I've done a whole shopping center with wildly different wreaths on each storefront too. 

My colors are slightly transparent, unlike the paint of some window painters who paint on a white background first. Because this white background isn't used, the sort of colors I use don't spoil the tints on windows by leaving a shadow - because of their transparency. 

After the holiday season is over, my colors wash off easily with sprayed alcohol too. I don't use plain old poster paint, so the rain doesn't affect what's on the window. That's why my designs can last as long as ten years!  But I *do* need easy access to the window from the outside. Artwork is best done on the outside of the window so the colors show up brightly.

I *have* done artwork on the inside of high rises for office workers & clients.





Please call 808 333-9366
If you're on the Big Island in the 2022 Winter season with an art job for me and my apprentices.

Mostly Santa Is A Homebody

Santa travels so fast and so far on Christmas eve that he has to stay home and gather his energy for the big day. He's got a favorite pair of bunny slippers...that allow him to slide along as if his feet are a sleigh. You know, Santa has favorite drinks too...

If you've got an idea of what Santa can be doing on your window and you're in Hawaii on the Big Island in 2019, just let me know what you want by leaving a text message on 
808 333-9366

Multi-talented Santa

Santa has many different hobbies, because his elves do so much of his work for him.

  In fact, Santa can be found doing amazing things. He needs to learn so many skills, because he loves everyone to have exactly the present they could ever want for their winter celebrations. How else can Santa understand product design if he doesn't test every single thing that is made in his workshop??

Winter Scenes Are Cool

With the shades drawn because the winter heat is too hot to put up with in Hawaii, it's nice to have a snow scene on the outside. On the Big Island we do get snow on Mauna Kea, so it's not completely a fantasy to depict a snow scene...although I've not seen many buildings up at that elevation!

808 333-9366 

...for a snow scene at your place where you have to use a shade from the tropic winter HEAT!  Or we can work from a photo to do a portrait of your dream house that you're building...