In October, 1970 Doug Favell is credited with becoming the first goaltender to have a full art design on his mask, when team trainers painted it bright orange for halloween. The Ernie Higgins mask was dubbed "The Great Pumpkin"
Favell later had the mask painted a "Starburst" design.

The mask was put on display in the Hockey Hall of Fame, later discovered it was a fake/replica on display. goaliemaskcollector.com acquired a clown type painted mask of same Higgins model, finding the original Favell mask and paintwork/art underneath clown paint.

We believe Frosty, the Boston Bruins trainer created the 1st art design on a mask when he drew with a marker, stitches on various places of Gerry Cheevers mask in 1968.