Pumpkin Carving Madness
I got a little carried away this year with the pumpkin carving. I have tried some pretty creative things in the past, but I decided to go a little beyond this time, well … for me anyway. I thought you might like to see the results. I’lll show you the process I went through.
I started with this picture of Mel and I:
Then I erased the background and reduced it to black and white with only 3 tones, like this:
Then I traced the image onto the pumpkin and carved it out to different depths. The dark areas remained as the skin of the pumpkin, the midtone areas i carved to about 1/4″ deep, and the lightest areas to about 1/2″ deep like this:
And here’s what it looks like lit up. You have to use your imagination here, hard to take a picture in the dark:
Overall, I was pleased with the results. What do you think?
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YAY!! Whoooo hooooo You put up the pic I wanted!! =) Looks so awesome…seriously…for real!
—Your crazy indian sis
This is great Maya told us about it you’ve outdone yourself this year I love it.
Wow. Can you make one for me? In English Walnut”
I’ve sold two big chucks on my brand new web site already. For the unitiated that’s an accessory for a lathe not a throw away adult diaper.
DAD
questions:
1; do you know anybody that ought to be invited to my exhibition in November and December?
2; could you spare a minute (or twelve) to help me polish up my web site? (two sales already)
3: I can’t remember the real question I wanted to ask…Oh Links! How about it?
Failing Father Figure
I have already linked to you at http://www.chickandduckmfg.com. you can see it in my blogroll on the right. There .. now you have 2 links. Would you like to write another story for “from dad’s shop” and put it on my blog?
Okay, that is incredible.
heehee your so cool! and your all mine!
It really is incredible, pity pumpkins don’t live forever.
Hey, I liked your pumpkin carving. It didn’t look like it was easy to do. The artistic gene lives.