Some Spooky Pumpkins

This year we tackled 3 Pumpkin Master designs and one by Alex. This one was a mummy that Becky carved onto a small white pumpkin. She cut the bottom off of this one to fit it over a candle on a plate instead of trying to stick it in and light it through the top.

This is the pirate skull I downloaded from the PM website and carved. The trick with detailed pieces like this one is to start with the smallest pieces first (the teeth), then work from the middle to the edges. If you cut away the jawbones first, the "mouth" would be too unstable to stand up to repeated sawing as you tried to carve out the teeth.

Alex designed this ghost and Becky carved it. It gives you the illusion that the ghost outline goes all the way around it, but Becky tapered the ends of that outline cut and left it "floating" in the middle of the pumpkin.

Becky was a machine this year, cranking out this Monster Mash also. Note all the detail work including the outlines between the monsters and the six eyes that have floating pupils. We've been doing these for something like 17 years now and it never get old. We used our new camera on a tripod, no flash, on a 2 second timer to get these shots.