Painted Pumpkin Faces

With some cool ideas for painting pumpkin faces, you can create an array of painted pumpkin, and use them to decorate the outdoors and indoors with Halloween colors. You can place various interesting painted pumpkin and make your house look great for Halloween. Also, you can use these pumpkins and place them on the desks or shelves to add more to your Halloween decoration. Here are various tips on how to paint Halloween pumpkin faces.

The first thing you need to do is buy lots of small-sized pumpkins. As they are easy to handle, take little time to paint, need little paint for the job, and keep in shape for longer. Make sure you pick pumpkins which don't have any gashes or blemishes. And if you are picking up the pumpkins from a patch, then cut their vines with 2-3 inches of vine still attached to the stem of the pumpkin. This will help to keep the pumpkin Halloween craft preserved for longer. Then clean the pumpkins with rubbing alcohol, and use a dry rag to clean the pumpkins further. Make sure you don't let the alcohol touch the stem or blossom end.

Easy to Paint Pumpkin Faces
Download different pumpkin smileys, from the Internet. Then get a print out of this. If you can't find pumpkin smileys on the Internet, then on the piece of paper, just draw some basic facial expressions. Smiling, crying, showing tongue, frowning, scowling, angry, evil, devil, or simply the Jack-o'-lantern design. These are very easy to create expression and with simple lines you can get them. Then pick a couple of smileys, and start painting them on the pumpkin.

To keep it simple, just use a simple black acrylic painting shade on the pumpkin. With the black paint, carefully start drawing the facial features. For eyes you can use simple '6', or draw black big dots, or you can use big oval rings and then draw big dots inside it. Then use a solid round or a triangle for the nose. Then draw the lips, according to the expression and let it dry.

Detailed Painted Halloween Pumpkin Faces
If you have good painting/drawing skills, then why not display a little bit of your creative side? You can surf the Internet for some ideas, to see how people have done some detailed illustrations of face on the pumpkin. Select some cool ideas of faces, which you can paint on the pumpkin. You can paint Dracula, zombie, devil, cat face, evil joker, angry faces, blood dripping from mouth vampires, witches, evil skull drawings, etc. So, first decide which face you want to paint, and then draw a thumbnail on the paper and color it too.

After drawing the thumbnail you can start painting on the pumpkin. If you don't want the natural base color of pumpkin which is orange, then paint it with two three coats of a base color, and let it dry. Then, start drawing the face which you have chosen. Start with eyes, then draw the mouth, then the nose and then add fine details like eyebrows, wrinkles, hair, etc. Make sure you always work in layers, and let every layer dry before painting the next layer. You can mix colors with black or white to create shades, so that you can add fine details to the face.

Make sure you follow the above tips to preserve the pumpkin longer, also to avoid your pumpkins from freezing, get them indoors during the nighttime. So, gather some neat pumpkins and your painting supplies, and start painting some wicked pumpkin faces!