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Last Halloween my wife showed me a Halloween lawn ornament she liked and asked if I could make one like it. Challenge accepted.

I began by searching on the internet for witch silhouettes. I found an image of one that looked particularly spooky and saved it.

Next, I’d need to make a large print of this. I opened the image in Illustrator to convert it to a vector image, which would allow me to resize it, and converted it with the “live paint” function. Then I removed the fill and added a single-line stroke around the image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Finally, I resized the image to be approximately 4′ tall, and printed it out. The printout took many sheets of paper, which I then taped to a 4′ x 4′ piece of plywood. This would be my cut guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From here, I cut the outlines with a jigsaw, being careful to not slice through the sawhorses below. I’d periodically chop dangling pieces off to keep them from flopping around too much as I made my cuts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, I had my plywood witch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, I painted it with a coat of primer (to keep the wood from absorbing the color paint), then a couple layers of black to really accentuate the silhouette aspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I added a wedge of wood on the back to create a stand, and put it in my front yard. It looked awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But I knew it could be scarier, so I decided to add a red spotlight behind it, and a fog machine to create an ominous glow. As the sun went down, it really started to show nicely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And once it got properly dark, the witch really started to show its terrifying aspect. A smash success!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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