A pretty set of pottery inspired the painted color and simple designs on these pumpkins.
Pumpkin Painting Ideas
As October aka spooky season has arrived, I thought I’d start sharing some of the ways you can get creative in the lead up to halloween and where better to begin than with simple creative ways to decorate pumpkins from painting floral patterns, graphic designs, brush lettering and botanical motifs.
Each of these techniques could be applied onto real or ceramic pumpkins , I personally love a ceramic pumpkin because you can keep them year after year. However if you do use a real one and need to create a base colour I would suggest using a spray paint for a quick drying even coverage.
Floral Pumpkins with marker pens
Halloween isn’t just for purple and orange, explore other autumnal tones to create pastel pumpkins this year!
Head over to the Gathered Makers blog for my tutorial on painting these with a step by step guide for achieving floral patterns, hand lettering and simple graphic patterns with dual marker pens.
Botanical Painted Pumpkins
If you’re a bit of a minimalist why not try botanical painted pumpkins. Taken from my book Paint, Make, Create these painted pumpkins embrace a more pared back look with simple floral line work. You can find the full tutorial for making your own botanical painted pumpkins in the Autumn chapter of the book…
Imaginative approaches to painting purple pumpkins
THE BUSY SEASON
With the summer holidays over, what’s next at the studio?
Halloween and the lead up to Christmas are, not surprisingly our busiest time of the year! Halloween half term being one of the busiest weeks for pottery painting! You can already reserve a table now here !
This time of year, we are flat out with keepsake gifts, so we have some dates for your diary!
Painted prints must be done by 10th October
Clay prints by 15th September
Painted prints must be done by 1st November
Clay prints by 15th October
3D castings for Christmas gifts must be done by the 20th of October
Any pieces done after these dates, are not guaranteed to be ready in time. We would love for everyone to receive their gifts in plenty of time for the special date, so please do come at your earliest convenience if you’d like us to make something special for you! Our dates can change depending on orders, so please don’t wait until the last minute! Book your keepsake session now!
Welcome to the Studio
Jump on the trend and come and paint your own pottery! A great activity not only for kids but students and adults as well! Pick your favourite piece of bisque from over 100 options, then come up with a design!
Our studio also specialises in making keepsakes for parents in a variety of ways, from painted prints to 3D casting; we can create an everlasting memory for you right here!
Don’t forget our late night openings or why not come and have a go at throwing your own pot on the wheel? You can check out all we have to offer right here!
Dotted Pumpkin
Decorate a natural or artificial pumpkin with painted-on dots for a playful look. To create dots, use the eraser end of a pencil or the rounded end of a paint brush.
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Light Touch
Just a bit of pattern enhances this white ‘Lumina’ pumpkin; simple black accents look great on orange pumpkins, too.
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Cool Cat
A painted black cat chases three mice on pumpkins lined up atop an outdoor wall.
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