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Painting fake pumpkins to look more realistic….

October 1, 2013 By Jennifer

I needed pumpkins ….stat. That’s why I started painting fake pumpkins.

Do you know how hard it is to find pumpkins in August?

I needed them for the home tour and went into panic mode.

I did find, at the good old Hob lobs, Fall was 40% off. And they had lots of fake pumpkins. Orange pumpkins.

Paint your fake pumpkins to look realThey were the right size and shape but wrong color. I was going to wing it.

So I hit the craft paint aisle, and started painting fake pumpkins to look just a bit more realistic!

The blue -grey pumpkin I primed in off white and then I coated with Folk arts’s Greenscape 2500 and then did a light dry brush of Folk art’s Sea mist.painting fake pumpkins to make it look realistic

The green pumpkin got several coats of Folk art’s Sap green and then dry brushed  with Italian Sagepaint with a mixture of sap green and italian sage

I even mixed them a bit when they were wet to give it a bit more color variationmix you paint colors for a natural color

I put them up on containers to dry so the bottom wouldn’t stick.dry your painted pumpkins on contatinersAn once they were dried I sprayed them with a polyacrylic in matte to keep the paint from chipping.

make fake pumpkins look real

If you mix them in a display with real pumpkins, no one will ever know the difference!!!

Miss mustard seed milk paint pumpkins

You can also paint them with milk paint for an awesome look here like Miss Mustard Seed did!

And I am doing 31 days of Gratitude. Every day I will post something I am grateful for, even if it’s  a quick blurb.

1.Today I am Grateful for a healthy family.

Microsoft Word - Document2 2Did you know the Creatively Made Home e-course{Home for the Holidays} starts in 15 days?????

Make sure you don’t miss your chance to start the class from  the beginning!!!!

Comments

  1. Linda@Coastal Charm says

    October 1, 2013 at 12:34 pm

    Really luv how we can make our pumpkin colors…the power of paint is sooooo awesome! I am painting some more pumpkins today.

    Blessings,
    Linda

  2. Pat@Back Porch Musings says

    October 1, 2013 at 2:33 pm

    Nifty pumpkins, Jen! They look great!

  3. Jeanne says

    October 1, 2013 at 3:24 pm

    What a great idea! I would never have thought to paint the fake pumpkins. I’m going to keep this in mind for next year.
    ox
    jeanne

  4. Violet @ Create Beauty says

    October 1, 2013 at 3:28 pm

    Jen, those pumpkins are gorgeous! Yesterday I helped a 3 year old paint pumpkins and it’s surprising how pretty they came out (especially after I spread her paint globs more evenly)

    Come by when you have a moment and see my GOLDEN pumpkin Cinderella carriage Fall decor!
    Painted pumpkins rock!
    I can only take orange in small doses (spray painting a real pumpkin works great!)

    Your bench with pumpkins is so pretty.

    ~ Violet

  5. lynn cockrell says

    October 1, 2013 at 9:26 pm

    You did a great job in painting these pumpkins, Jenn. The colors you chose are perfect! Thanks for the tutorial and inspiration!

  6. Ashley @ Life on the Parsons Farm says

    October 2, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    I was wondering about those fab pumpkins!!

  7. Leann says

    October 3, 2013 at 12:30 am

    They look wonderful and now they are on-sale around here. I may stock up:)

    Thanks for the inspiration!

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