Pumpkin Face Tutorial

Someone asked me about the pumpkin faces last week. Here are the steps that I use to make the faces. First of all, base coat whatever you are using with shades of orange. You can read about how to do the background here or http://tolentreasures.blogspot.com/2011/01/star-and-berry-vine-tutorial.html (Somewhere on this blog, I posted a whole tutorial on backgrounds, think I can find it? Of course not.) Then trace on your face. I use chalk, freehand it! Honestly, they are all different. One little word of caution. If you are using pan lids, I drill the hole before I paint them and make sure that hole is at the top when you start painting. All mistakes that I have made and that we are not going to talk about. Just trust me. I paint the faces with white first. Yellow just takes too many coats. Then Yellow and yellow again. Paint the noses (handles) black...