Welcome! …..or…… Beware!

Depending on your mood – display one side or the other of this 2 sided sign. This is painted with acrylic paint on scrap board – so it doesn’t have to be square – what ever kind of board you have will do. Put a couple of holes in the top or some how secure a cord so you can hang it in the window and use it like an “open/close” sign. Complete one side, let dry then paint the other.

STEP 1: Paint your board black, let dry.
STEP 2: Hand write your greeting in chalk and draw a simple pumpkin. Space letters far enough apart because we will be making them fatter when painted.

STEP 3: Choose colors for your greeting and paint them and paint your pumpkin orange. Using a black background gives it a certain style – so don’t worry about getting the painting solidly painted. Some black showing through looks interesting.

STEP 4: Paint inside the pumpkins eyes, nose and mouth yellow. Yellow makes it look like it’s lit from inside.  Paint the stem green.

STEP 5: Add detail. I added some vine curls to the Welcome pumpkin and some flame type swirls to the Beware pumpkin. I also added some yellow to the top of the letters on the Welcome sign. Just brushing it on quickly, just for highlights.

STEP 6: Outline the pumpkin and yellow areas in black. I use Createx airbrush black with a thin brush. It flows solidly and smoothly in a way that watered down black acrylics cannot. It doesn’t take much – put a little in a tiny lid or container to work from while you are outlining.  After I outlined, I thought the greeting looked plain. So I added some loose outlines to the text. See detail on left. Messy is good – don’t try to be perfect.

Halloween Invitations:

Here is an idea! Photograph your sign and use it for Halloween cards or Halloween Invitations!

Happy Haunting!

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