Painted Pumpkins for Halloween

Halloween is an excellent opportunity to put your art on display.  Carved pumpkins tend to rot and get eaten by animals pretty quickly, but painted pumpkins have a way of lasting a long time.  They're perfect for putting on display outside or inside your home.

Last week I roped a friend into helping me to carry a bunch of heavy pumpkins home and then we spent an evening painting pumpkins and listening to Halloween music.  As a side note, I didn't think there was a lot of Halloween music out there, but we turned on Pandora and asked for Halloween music and there were a bajillion songs!  

We each painted three pumpkins.  Here are Steve's pumpkins:

He saw the green pumpkin and immediately thought of Frankenstein.  I think the detail of adding bolts to the "neck" is awesome (and easy):

These are the three I painted:

The black and white pumpkins are a study in simplicity.  Multiple simple marks create something greater than each individual mark.

And, of course, I had to put eyes all over a pumpkin!  Halloween screams for eyes, don't you think?

Here they all are together:

Quite a festive Halloween doorstep!  BTW: That big orange pumpkin is a ginormous 30 lb. pumpkin.  You can watch me try to pick it up and see some of the pumpkin decorating in process here:

Thanks for stopping by!

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Some previous painted pumpkin posts (say that three times fast):

face pumpkins 

video here

Metallic Pumpkins

doodled pumpkins

Gelli Deli pumpkin