This time of the year I have to step away from my sewing machine a little to have some fun pumpkin painting. It's fast, easy and the sky it the limit with what you can do. These are two I finished last weekend... have a few more to do, but for now I'll post these photos. I have painted "patch work" pumpkins many times.

I get a lot of my props at thrift stores. I found the helmet for "Army Cartman" for .99¢ at Good Will. The hat/flowers and curly green ribbon hair for "Cowgirl Scarecrow" came from the $1.00 Store. It's cheap... fun...and anyone can do it..
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They are very cute....I love it....

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Love it. I had a gift and craft store years ago and I painted pumpkins every fall. Such fun.

You certainly win first place for the most adorable pumpkins I have seen this year! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

So cute

Oh what fun!!

Our Fair had a competition in the Kids section for a pumpkin/squash animal. One entry was a perfectly formed penguin, with the stem conveniently coming at its beak. It was totally painted.

Another was a sheep .... while not painted it was covered with puffs of batting, and certainly did look like a lamb. It scored first, the penguin 2nd.

Hehe....THANKS! My boss makes that EXACT face on the Cartman pumpkin. He's really not grumpy.. it's just a face he makes when he's being silly. I put it on his desk when he was gone and I could hear him laughing all the way down to my office when he discovered it.

I'm not kidding... ANYONE can do this. The more you do the better you get. Just like quilting actually...LOL

ditto!!
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This are a hoot!!!

I made these two a few years ago.

The first one is our guild symbol from a video game we played a few years back. And the second one is quite cool.

All are BOOtiful:):)

Great job, they're so cute.

those are great!!!

too cute

Chasing Hawk!

Awesome pumpkins! Did you use a stencil on "End of the Trail".. or freehand? I have done pumpkins with people's brands on them before too. My house burned down (up?) in 2003 and I lost my album FULL of pumpkins I've done since 1984. I did a Ghost Buster series (Slimer was a riot). For some reason carving pumpkins was always really hard for me.. so when I started to paint them.. I went nuts.

They are very cute....I love them

We used to have pumpkin painting contests for our employees...it was such fun! You did a great job on yours! I think the 1st one looks like the helmeted pig on Angry Birds! Does that tell you that I spend waaaay too much time playing Angry Birds!! LOL!

Cute...Eric Cartman rocks :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

So cute!

Adorable!

Cute cute cute!

AGREE THOSE ARE REALLY CUTE AND INEXPENSIVE,THATS A PLUS IN ITS SELF.

You are so talented. Thank you for sharing.

The first one looks like one of the guys on southpark, must be the eyes. Adorable!

You are very talented. They are very cute!

What kind of paint do you use?

Both are cute, but I love love love the cowgirl one.

I had the same question. Also, do you put anything under or over the paint?

ADORABLE! Show us some more ,think I would like to do this.What kind of paint did you use?
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They are adorable. Great job. ;) ;) ;)

I traced it, used a pencil to indent the pumpkin skin a little and then painted it.

Thanks... great idea.

I used craft paint, the kind you buy in small bottles at Micheal's.

very nice work! Please post more pics of ones you paint!

I wish i could do that.

Thanks for showing us what type of paint you use. Looks like I have a good excuse for a Hobby Lobby or Joanns trip. Now where did I put those coupons?

Thanks! I'll use most any type of of craft paint, but Ceramcoat is the most reliable IMO. I don't fret if I buy a paint (on sale) I don't care for... I'll just use it up as a base coat on something. Some of my ceramcoat paints are 12-15 yrs old, and as long as you clean their top before sealing they stay pretty darn good. A couple I had to put some water in, but I was very pleased that some of my oldest colors still had some life left in them.

ANYONE CAN PAINT PUMPKINS... just start with basic shapes.

I did post another link with my final 3 painted pumpkins on it. I finished them up over the weekend.

Here they are - http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-160992-1.htm

Enjoy!!