Starry Night Pumpkin

This year I decided to paint a pumpkin instead of carving it. I went online for inspiration, and decided I wanted to replicate Van Gogh's 'Starry Night'. I simply used a small pumpkin and some acrylic paints.

You will need:

• Acrylic paints in blues, yellows, reds, black, and white
• A pumpkin
• Paint brushes
• a cup of water to clean brushes

I painted blue swirls like those in 'Starry Night' (look it up to see what I mean.) I had to do a second coat on top because orange pumpkin was showing through. I added some black in the second coat just to add contrast.

Use white, yellow, and light blue paint to paint streaks and dots following the curves of your black and blue swirls.

The original painting has large yellow stars with large halos of light. To re-create this I painted circles of dashed lines in white, and added yellow, and then orange so that the circles were darkest in the center

Below the swirly star part I painted the pumpkin black, and then painted on white and yellow stars. I also painted the stem white. My particular pumpkin had a bit of vine left on it, so I wrapped that in white twine and hung a little star from it.