Zentangle Easy Pumpkin Decorating

Remember zentangles? The really easy drawing technique that really takes doodling and patterning to a new level. I can’t stop “zentangling” since I tried on these coasters.

Fall is here, and October is right around the corner. Time to start decorating pumpkins. I love to decorate them early, but I don’t like to carve them this early. Every week until Halloween I’m going to show you a new fun way to decorate your pumpkins – without carving. Today is zentangle pumpkin decorating.

For a refresher course on what a zentangle is – it is simply dividing your drawing surface into random sections, and then doodling simple patterns in each section.

To do this on a pumpkin, I used a large tipped black Sharpie marker and a medium tipped one. I divided my pumpkin into random section with the thick permanent marker first. Then in each section I doodled in different patterns ranging from stripes to polka-dots to squiggles and anything in between. There is no wrong way to do this. That’s what makes this a perfect pumpkin decorating idea for any age.

After I filled my pumpkin with zentangle patterns, I finished by painting the pumpkin stalk black for extra detail. I used Americana Multi-surface Satin paint in the black tie.

Lovely!