Painting a Scarecrow Cutout for Halloween at our church “Trunk or Treat”. If I only had a brain… 6’x3′ acrylic on cardboard with cutouts for faces. Scarecrow, black cat, and pumpkin.
I used a piece of cardboard saved from an appliance box that I cut into flat sheets to paint a Halloween scene. First, laying out a scarecrow sitting on a fence rail with his feet on a large pumpkin and of course a black cat right next to him.
Using pencil and then charcoal my layout lines are drawn well enough to serve as guides for painting to proceed. Painting with acrylics the background area is filled in showing better outlines of the other characters.
Then it is simply a process of finishing all the other items from top to bottom.
Once the paints have dried, I am then able to go ahead and cut out the face of the scarecrow and the mouth opening of the pumpkin to allow people to pose for pictures behind the cutouts.