
Perhaps my favourite design though is the lettered wreath pumpkin. Sharpies are very handy for lettering or for children to decorate with if you don’t have time to get the paints out. I use PVA glue and tissue paper to decoupage the surface and have experimented with foil this year to create silver leaf shapes. Collaging is easy, and again child friendly. Perhaps to coordinate with your interiors or front door.

The Blue Prince pumpkin is such a beautiful colour it needs only simple minimal embellishments and the orange pumpkin can be painted any colour with acrylic or household emulsion first before you decorate if you want a coloured surface to begin. White pumpkins are beautiful when decorated with watercolour or inks and this is ideal for little ones as watercolour is safe and will wash off little hands and surfaces easily. What makes a good pumpkin for decorating? Anything will do but ideally you want a smooth unblemished surface and a nice hard skin. In order to share my love of a painted pumpkin I host a Pumpkin Painting workshop annually, helping others to embellish their own Autumnal gem, so on our annual pumpkin farm trip I am often to be found scouring the fields for a collection of 10-20 pumpkins suitable for decorating at the workshop. A tradition I now recreate each year with my daughter who is 4 and enjoys painting them with me each year. I painted so many one year that they spilled out of the house and onto the drive with a collection of brightly painted pumpkins welcoming visitors throughout the Autumn. Using acrylic paint I enjoyed the challenge of decorating a smooth rounded surface, experimenting with lettering, collage and pattern. There are not many things I won’t try painting on and pumpkins are now one of my favourites. About 5 years ago I started painting pumpkins for Autumn. This is where my pumpkin journey starts each October with a family trip to the local pumpkin picking farm to navigate our wheel barrow through the mud and collect as many weird and wonderful pumpkins as we can.
#White pumpkin painting free
Kids running free in fields of mud dotted with pumpkins, parents debating the merits of an orange, blue or white pumpkin on every size and scale imaginable and invariably a hot chocolate to warm hands and tummies afterwards.


Optional: Use transfer paper (graphite paper) to trace your design. Pumpkins 212 available Yayoi Kusama ’s instantly recognizable pumpkins have become fixtures of contemporary art and popular cultureand have helped make her one of the world’s most expensive living female artists.

