Halloween Window Painting Contest Continues..

[Betsy Voinovich]

Hi all, here's my story from the paper. Painting begins SOON so if you or someone you know wants to do a Halloween painting, make sure you get an application and send it in!

It’s that time of the year again. The wind is rattling the leaves, everyone’s locating their jackets and hats. Lake Erie is finally just a little too cold for swimming and if your house is like mine, we’ve already been through 4 different complete costume changes for Halloween night and that’s just the ten-year-old.

Our favorite Lakewood Halloween tradition for the last ten years has been the Halloween Window Decorating Contest. When my oldest was five, year one for the contest, he won “Best In Show” with his painting of “The Skeletones,” four skeletons in a rock band with bright orange punk hair. One of his prizes was tickets to “The Phantom Tollbooth” at the Beck Center—we had never been there before, and going to that show started another family tradition of attending student plays at the Beck.

If you’ve participated before, you know the drill. Sign-up flyers will be coming home in your kids’ backpacks (you can also pick them up at the library, The Beck Center or Rozi’s.) You sign up and wait for your window assignment in the mail. Each child can sign up for his own window, or you can do it as a family, a church group, a Cub Scout pack, etc. And then you get to paint the biggest canvas you have ever worked on, and show it off to probably the biggest audience you’ve ever had--- the whole city of Lakewood! You can paint whatever Halloween looks like to you, from Headless Horsemen to cute kittens jumping out of pumpkins to last year’s zombie Ranger marching band.

Artists can download an rules and application right here: http://media.lakewoodobserver.com/media ... 648960.pdf

Business owners up and down Detroit and Madison have generously donated their windows for decoration. (If you are a business owner who would like to participate, call this number 216.228.7223, RIGHT NOW as we would love to have more businesses to paint. Just leave a message that says business, name and address and we will send someone over.)

Business owners can download their form here: http://media.lakewoodobserver.com/media ... 878085.pdf

The painting itself will take place from October 22 through October 28th and the judging will take place October 30th. Everyone who participates is invited to the Award Ceremony and Artist’s Reception at the Beck on Halloween itself, Oct 31st at 2PM. You get to hang out with your fellow artists, compare artistic theories regarding Halloween painting, and get started on eating some treats early.

Don’t miss it!

For more info call…..216-228-7223 or email production@lakewoodobserver.com for info or a downloadable application.

See you on the street!

Betsy Voinovich

[Jim O'Bryan]

Windows from the past...



















Great family fun.

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[Corey Rossen]

The scariest image to hit storefront windows in years!

Corey