PAINTED BOTANICAL PUMPKINS TUTORIAL

CRAFT

Oct 29

These DIY painted pumpkins are perfect for styling a sophisticated mantlepiece, shelf or table for Halloween or Thanksgiving.

You can use tester pots of wall paint, but to get a similar matt finish like my painted pumpkins, I recommend using Annie Sloan chalk paints.

They come in the most beautiful range of colours and dry really quickly (top tip, you can speed up the drying process up by using a hairdryer on a low heat).

NB. To recreate my pumpkins use Annie Sloan Old Violet for the leaves, over a base of Scandinavian Pink.

Step-by-step guide

STEP 1

Paint the base

Paint the base of the pumpkin in a colour of your choosing and leave to dry.

STEP 2

leaf template

Take a small leaf, press it to the pumpkin with one finger and paint rough strokes outwards in a different colour.

STEP 3

repeat

Remove and discard the leaf and repeat randomly until the pumpkin is covered.

STEP 4

finishing touches

Once dry, roughly paint the centre of each leaf and the pumpkin stem.

Top Styling Tip

Display your painted pumpkins as I have with lanterns, dark candles and dried seasonal flowers and foliage such as hydrangea and ferns

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Clea Broad https://www.cleabroad.co.uk