Since this Halloween is so different and I couldn’t do many things that day, it was so relieving to have a fun activity to participate in on the day of Halloween. I attended pumpkin painting and trivia hosted by my GRF Sam from Mennen Hall. I was super excited for this activity since I love painting, and I didn’t have many chances during the semester to with such a busy schedule. I spent a long time deciding what to paint on my white pumpkin and got inspired by some pictures off pinterest. I knew I wanted to keep the white of the pumpkin and paint some designs to contrast it. I decided to paint orange flowers and black leaves, mixing multiple shades of orange to paint the flowers. I also created a ghost-like gradient with a little bit of white on the black leaves, and I really love how the pumpkin turned out. I also learned a lot of surprising facts about Halloween I hadn’t known before, like the heaviest pumpkin being heavier than 2000 pounds. I actually had another Halloween trivia event later that day where I used what I learned during this trivia.
painted some orange colored flowers with black stems and leaves on my white pumpkin to highlight halloween colors
Wow!! Those pumpkins look really beautiful! Where did you learn to paint like that, because I certainly would like to learn. Additionally, I am disappointed that I couldn’t have made it to these activities but next year I hope the activities are similar because it sounds like a lot of fun to participate in and learn many facts about Halloween.
Your pumpkin looks awesome! I really enjoyed that event too. Like you said, it was nice having something to look forward to on Halloween. I am hoping they do an ornament painting session for Christmas.
Will you leave your pumpkin out as a decoration all year or just for Halloween?
Thank you so much! Yeah, I really wanted something like that as well for Christmas, I saw Keeton hosting something like an ornament painting session if I remember correctly. I ended up putting it away in December, along with my other seasonal decor
The flowers on the pumpkins look so surreal and beautiful! I am really glad you enjoyed the event and hope you had a great Halloween. I hope they do a similar event for Thanksgiving or Christmas so that I could join on the next one.
This is absolutely incredible! I also love painting pumpkins but yours is light years ahead of mine. The attention to detail is wonderful and this would have taken me forever to try and get close to painting this like you did. Are you an artist?
Thanks for your comment and compliment! I love art and anything creative, and have been drawing or painting more as a hobby since 8th grade. I’m also in that phase where I’m switching mediums and recreating or being inspired by other people’s works to find my own style.