You can paint! The great thing about Halloween is that things are supposed to be aged and imperfect and that gives you, yes you, a great chance to try your hand at something new. Painting is a cheap way to make a large scale decoration in no time flat. I found this 3'x2' canvas at a thrift store for 4 bucks. I covered it in black and voila, I had a fresh medium. Skulls are easy to paint, if you have a reference. Go online and print out a simple skull, or put it on your Ipad if you are all fancy and stuff, and loosely sketch it on your canvas. Then find an old wiry overused paint brush, this is where imperfection counts. Dip it in your white paint and, start to wipe it off on a grocery sack or paper towel, you want to unload the paint off the brush so that you get whispy lines when you drag it across the canvas. Then dive in! Paint! The great thing about using this dry brush technique is that if you make a mistake, it's a light one. Start with the basic shape of the skull with your brush and build up the white in the areas you want to be the most prominent. Dry brush is an easy playful way to paint that is hard to make a mistake with... just know when to stop. You want some darker areas. Imagine, bragging to your friends, I did that in 10 minutes... it feels, it feels, well it feels as great as I feel right now bragging to you. Now, go get your art-attack on.
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