Black & White Pumpkins

Chica and Jo

I've been seeing a lot of beautiful black and white pumpkins recently, such as this awesome zentangle pumpkin by Chica and Jo.

If the crazy zentangle designs are a bit too complex for you, here's a tutorial for cute, simple Missoni-inspired zigzag pumpkins!

It seems that painting the pumpkins white, so to speak, gives decorators a whole new lease on the idea of pumpkin as canvas.  You can go simple, with monochromatic polka-dots or monograms, or you can try a little tromp-l'oeil, or you can create black and white toile patterns using Modge Podge and patterned paper napkins.  All these designs look elegant while still capturing a kind of Tim Burton strangeness that is so essential to Halloween.