How to Color Glowing Pumpkins without Florescent Markers or Colored Pencils
WHAT’S THE SECRET TO BRIGHT GLOWING PUMPKINS?
You’ve colored Jack o’ Lanterns before. Coloring the eyes, nose, and mouth holes yellow doesn’t work.
You want the light inside to glow like a candle in the dark.
Instead it just looks… flat and yellow.
It’s easy to assume you need neon gel pens or special day-glow paint to make Halloween projects glow.
There are lots of crafty bright glitter-glues and glow-in-the-dark puffy paints.
Sure, they glow but it’s not a realistic glow.
Why is it so hard to color a real glowing pumpkin?
“Pumpkin Stack”. Copic Marker + Prismacolor Colored Pencil on Strathmore 300 Smooth Bristol. 6” x 6” by the author, Amy Shulke.
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COLORS USED IN “PUMPKIN STACK”
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SUPPLY LIST FOR “PUMPKIN STACK”
