Painted Shop Windows: Fraggle Rock Window 2015

In March (18th) 2015, with a gloomy spring of grey clouds and rain we needed something bright cheerful and summery leading up to easter.

So walking through the shop I found four of the Fraggle Rock costumes. We have had then sitting around for years and we have not sold one years. Then I realised that my random doodles would look quite good with costumes.

The Final Window

                    The flower heads almost look like flying saucers on an alien plant.

I painted the rocks on and around the dislay case to make it part of the window, rather then just a last thought.

(Oh La La, an armless naked man mannequin.)
Finished flowers growing on top of rocks

(March 30th)

Fraggle Rock Easter egg hunt. just in time for Easter.

Was a little lazy here as people hand been liking the window, and decided to just added some easter eggs hiding behind the flowers and rocks.

The Inspiration Behind The Window Art

I had, and still have been doing these little little sketches for a while and they seamed perfect to put on the Fraggle Rock window.

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I will posting one or two more posts with other windows that painted. and a post on the products that I used.

Till then happy creating.

Painted Shop Windows: Halloween

Halloween is the busiest time of year for any fancy dress store.

Which meant it was time for a frightful window.

In stepped me with my box of paint and brushes.

2014

The tomb stones and wall (on the right) was a mix of black and white paint and applied with a sponge to create a rough stone finish.

The sky was a mix of blue, black and white. painted over the lightning. this section on the top right is my favourite bit.

Apart from the Lightning which turned out looking good. The Bottom centre holds the cutest bit of the window painting, the black cat with a pumping.

Unfortunately the red and yellow paints that I had didn't mix that well to make a pumping orange colour, but still it tuned out well.

On the smaller window we had the social media addresses and icons. which needed a little Halloween-i-fing.

In stepped jack skellington. In each corner I added spiders web to frame the window and drips of blood from the addresses. Being careful to leave a tiny gap between the blood and the writing to mack it a little easier to remover the blood drips

After Halloween I removed the blood and added spots of snow and small piles of snow on the webs and on Jacks head

Halloween 2016

With a display unit in the window this year had to de a little less them in 2014 (and of cause Petter rotten tail, aka Scary bunny had to stay in the window).

So I went for more of a child's book / comic book look.

The sketches.

A work in progress from the inside.

Final piece from the In side

I will posting two more posts with other windows that painted. and a post on the products that I used.

Till then happy creating.

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Painted Shop Windows.

Over the last seven years I got to create and paint several windows for Escapade Fancy Dress.

Most of my visual merchandising dispalys and window are posted on my Visual Merchandising blog VisualMerchandising101. 

I will do a separate post on what I used and weather I think about it. But for now I thought it would be good to shear the work here on my art blog. 

The first window that I painted was in July 2013. From what I remember that year a lot festivals and party's were nautical or pirate related which resulted in the boat. 

This was painted using chalk makers.

The Bestival festival (September 2013) theme was 'Nautical'. The costumes were all chosen to inspire ideas for the event. 

The semi circles in green and blue along the bottom are art deco inspired waves and the blue semi circles along the top is the sky. I decided not to paint white clouds as I wanted to keep it to just two colours.

2014 windows had a simaler style with Hearts for Vanitines day, and Shame rocks for St. Patricks day with the shapes framing the window and directing your attention more to the mannequins.

The Peace and Love window was again inspired my a festival theme.

Peace signs, hearts and flowers had to make an appearance.

September brought with it the Isle of White Bestival Festival its theme for 2014 was "Desert Island Disco."

So in the spirit of festival fancy dress, this inspired the window.

With palm trees to frame the window on their own little Islands. 

You can't really Go wrong with a comic book window. I used the Grand Heritage  Costumes, which are higher end line and created a 1960s inspierd design. using the cabinet to create a the 

'Welcome To Gotham City' sign. and the clouds painted on the main window.

With the cinema release of Avengers, Age of Ultron in April (21st) 2015.

Three of the Avengers made an appearance their logs painted on the window.

I will posting two more posts with other windows that painted. and a post on the products that I used.

Till then happy creating.

Little Foot Note:

This is not a sponsored post.