Easy Painted Pumpkins: How to Paint Simple Monster Faces

Directions

1. Create two inverted teardrop shapes for the eyes.
2. Paint an open mouth in the shape of a kidney bean.
3. With the back of a small brush, add a pink dot beneath each eye.
4. Place a white dot inside each eye using the brush's back end.
5. Cover 90% of the pumpkin in green paint.
6. For hair, paint black triangles or a zigzag around the top and fill them in.
7. Add two black circles as eyes.
8. With your smallest brush or its back, paint a smile slightly narrower than the eyes. Then add two vertical rows of stitches on each side of the face.
9. Using the back end of a small brush, put a white dot in each eye.
10. Paint 90% of the pumpkin light purple (or your chosen vampire skin color).
11. Carefully paint black hair: outline a widow's peak and round ears, then draw a straight line from the ears' bottom around the back, and fill in.
12. Add two black circles for eyes.
13. Paint a small smile slightly narrower than the eyes using your finest brush or its back.
14. Dot a pink spot under each eye with the back of a small brush.
15. Using a brush's back end, dot white inside each eye.
16. With your smallest brush, paint two tiny triangular teeth.
17. Paint one half of the pumpkin green (a full side or enough for a face).
18. Outline grey hair: add triangular bangs, frame the face, and extend a spiky border around the back halfway down. Fill in with grey.
19. Paint a circular witch hat base at the pumpkin's top.
20. Fill the bottom half of the pumpkin with black paint.
21. Add two black circles for eyes.
22. Paint a small smile just narrower than the eyes using your finest brush or its back.
23. Using a small brush's back, add a pink dot on each side of the smile.
24. Add a white dot in each eye with the brush's back.
25. Paint a dark pink brain section at the top of the pumpkin.
26. Paint the rest of the pumpkin turquoise (or your zombie skin color).
27. Paint light pink squiggles (called gyri) over the brain area.
28. Add two white half-circles for eyes.
29. Paint a large black kidney-bean-shaped mouth.
30. Fill the eyes with black, leaving a thin white border.
31. Using light turquoise (mix white into your paint), add eyelid lines, a nose, a frown below the mouth, and warts with the brush's back.
32. Paint teeth in yellow or light green.