Initially, I sketched my design on and then realized it was way too small.
(Photos above and below)ĪMBER: Sketch your design right onto your pumpkin before you begin painting so you can make sure the scale is right. And I wanted to give my “Winky Face” pumpkin a personality so when it’s displayed outside on the porch it can wink at people passing by during the day-and when you turn it around at night it can be sleeping. That way they could work together or be independent decorations.ĬHLOE J.: I wanted to do a pumpkin that was witchy and magical, so I decided to paint a gem with some bold chunky lettering on top of a dark black pumpkin for a very spooky magic vibe. For my rainbow, I basically wanted to “Halloween-ize” a normal rainbow (two pics above) but maintain the happiness you feel when you see one.ĪLYSSA G.: I went for a larger pumpkin that could have a more detailed feminine design (below), then complemented it with a smaller pumpkin to paint with star and moon elements from the larger design (scroll down to see the little pink pumpkin in the big group photo). I created pumpkins that incorporated orange so that they would look great mixed with regular unpainted pumpkins on my porch.įELICIA K.: Since I was doing two designs I wanted to try different difficulty levels: one that was simple enough for anyone to try and another that was more advanced. Some went abstract, some gravitated toward characters or animals, and some found words that inspired them. But it was cool to see how we each took it to a different place from that starting point. Pumpkin painting tips and ideas from Hallmark artistsĪMBER G.: Creating a “witchy vibes” mood board and a color palette ensured that we all created pumpkins that hung together as a group. Follow the ridges to make vertical stripes.Mask the top half with tape and paint the bottom.Make simple marks, dots, or stripes in one color all over.Paint the stem-or, if it’s long, just the tip.We left some of the real pumpkins as-is and added simple designs to the rest.
#White pumpkin painting Patch#
Because we love to display our pumpkins en masse, we headed to a real live pumpkin patch and loaded up the wheelbarrow.
Whether you’re setting up in a studio or on your front steps, more is definitely better. Or, if you’re decorating with family, choose your paints from your color palette and turn the kids loose. You can do the same with a group of friends or your roommate. We handed off our mood board to a group of designers, illustrators, and lettering artists and let them go wild. Search any of these words or phrases in front of “trends 2019” to get page after page of inspo: Hallmark is lucky enough to have a whole team dedicated to trend-spotting, so every year we kick our project off with them.īut you can do your own version-one that matches your style, your interests, or even your front porch. Want to make sure you end up with a crop of decorated pumpkins that look great together? Start off with a mood board and color palette. Tips for a pretty pile of painted pumpkins Fake it when you make itįor our fanciest pumpkins, we used artificial craft pumpkins. They’re available in different sizes, shapes, and colors and, obviously, they last forever. (For a list of supplies and even more painted pumpkin tips and ideas, check out last year’s post.) And here they are-but even better, here’s this year’s harvest of fabulous painted pumpkin inspo. So we asked our artists to share their top pumpkin painting tips from start to finish.
#White pumpkin painting how to#
Not just the design part: all the details, from where to find inspiration to ways to apply paint to how to show them off. When you paint a lot of pumpkins,* you get pretty good at it.
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