Window Painting Tradition Sets The Scene For Halloween In Newtown

NEWTOWN BOROUGH, PA — The Halloween season has officially arrived in Newtown.

Throughout the business district teams of volunteer painters worked their Halloween magic on Saturday transforming store windows on State Street and a handful on Sycamore Street into a palette of ghostly, fall fun.

It was all in preparation for the borough’s annual Halloween Parade set to step off on Saturday, Oct. 28. Participants will gather at 9 a.m. at the Stocking Works on South State Street for the 9:30 a.m. parade, which will march north on Main Street, east on Green Street before ending atBrian Gregg Park where there will be prizes and music.

There will be 10 costume categories: Best Homemade Costume, Group Theme, Halloween Horror, Halloween Humor, Pampered Pets, Parent & Child, Cutest Couple (any group of two), Storybook & Fantasy, TV & Movies, and Best Float.

To help welcome the Halloween season, individuals, families and groups painted the town with pumpkins, spiders, scary skeletons, witches and other October scenes this past Saturday.

At Lovely Poke and Tea House, members of the Carriage House Artists in Southampton were conjuring up the dead with their window painting celebrating the “Day of the Dead.”

Jackie Kaizar, Linda Storione, Lynn Kopacz and Betty Ann Kolonis were working their magic, painting four dancing skeletons.

The Day of the Dead by the Carriage House Artists.

Jackie Kaizar, Linda Storione, Lynn Kopacz and Betty Ann Kolonis were working their magic, painting four dancing skeletons.

Kaizar is a window painting veteran. She recalls painting windows in the early 1980s when her children were younger. She later helped organize the event after it was resurrected in the 2000s.

If you like their skeletons, you’ll love their other works of art, which will be on display and for sale during an art show and sale at the Carriage House at Tamanend Park on Nov. 11 and 12 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Just a few doors down at David Witchell’s, Maddie Adamusko was creating an amazing anime image of Dio-Sami from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.

Maddie Adamusko transforms the window at Witchell's.

Dio-Sami from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.

Her mom was at the next window at Cordes Law painting the windows there with the scales of Justice and a legal book.

Down the street at Starbucks, Shannon Stucky was decorating the front window with a giant spider web complete with two 3-D spiders and a coffee cup brimming with spiders. It’s captioned, “Are you surè you have coffee!?”

A few windows down at Blue Mercury, the Orr family was putting the finishing touches on a Zombie they affectionately named Blue. Blue is holding a bottle of Eau De Parfum, nö doubt purchased at her favorite perfume store on South State.

This is the fifth year that Kimberly Orr has taken part in the window painting. Last year she created “Salty on State” on the windows at the Salt Cave.

The Orr family of Langhorne with "Blue."

During this year’s Halloween Art Scene, groups, families and individuals decorated windows at stores and businesses throughout the State Street business district and on Sycamore Street. Look for painted windows at WSFS Bank and at Franks Auto Center.

Other window paintings not to be missed include a ghostly scene at Hydrate, a scarecrow at the Newtown Book and Record Exchange, a fall message from Laura Hughes at Ivory Tree, 'Spooky Season" at the All State insurance office and a series of ghostly trick-or-treaters on the windows of the Zebra Striped Whale created by Breanne and Amy. Can you guess which Disney character is under the sheets?

Winners of this year’s contest will be announced at the Newtown Halloween Parade on Oct. 28 and on the Newtown Halloween website.

Shannon Stucky creates her 3-D spider web on the window at Starbucks. Her finished window is pictured below.

A series of ghostly trick-or-treaters on the windows of the Zebra Striped Whale created by Breanne and Amy. Can you guess which Disney character is under the sheets?

Ghostly images at Hydrate on South Main.