Punkin Head: Here's the first of a series of carved "Punkin Heads" for this year's Halloween, the eyes on this one are catseye marbles. Every year I carve a few of these critters to...

Elliott Design Loc: West Tennessee

Here's the first of a series of carved "Punkin Heads" for this year's Halloween, the eyes on this one are catseye marbles. Every year I carve a few of these critters to give my friends and customers. There's an animated slideshow and some photos of previous years on my website if anyone would like to get a short overview of how it's done.

http://www.elliott-design.net/how-to-carve-punkins.htm

Punkin Head Halloween 2015

Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida

You have real talent. Do you carve or sculpt in any other materials?

asjohnston3 Loc: Irving, TX

Elliott Design wrote:

Here's the first of a series of carved "Punkin Heads" for this year's Halloween, the eyes on this one are catseye marbles. Every year I carve a few of these critters to give my friends and customers. There's an animated slideshow and some photos of previous years on my website if anyone would like to get a short overview of how it's done.

http://www.elliott-design.net/how-to-carve-punkins.htm

What fun! Very cool!!

jederick Loc: Northern Utah

Excellent! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Elliott Design Loc: West Tennessee

Thanks, these are a fun release from business work. I do carve in other media also, usually wood, I use the same carving chisels for the pumpkins and they sure are softer to work on.

Cwilson341 wrote:

You have real talent. Do you carve or sculpt in any other materials?

Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida

Elliott Design wrote:

Thanks, these are a fun release from business work. I do carve in other media also, usually wood, I use the same carving chisels for the pumpkins and they sure are softer to work on.

I hope you take photos of all your pumpkin art! It may be softer than wood but sure doesn't last as long.

Elliott Design Loc: West Tennessee

Thanks, glad you like them, gives me a chance to do what I want to do in stead of what the customer wants.

ajohnston3 wrote:

What fun! Very cool!!

Elliott Design Loc: West Tennessee

Thanks, they're fun to do. Each pumpkin has its own personality inside, I just remove meat until the right face comes out.

jederick wrote:

Excellent! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Elliott Design Loc: West Tennessee

Yeah, my wife has several albums from years past. You're right they don't last long, I take photos of the decaying process too.

Cwilson341 wrote:

I hope you take photos of all your pumpkin art! It may be softer than wood but sure doesn't last as long.

Chuckster72 Loc: Northern New Mexico

I've never seen anything like this. Really neat. The color of the squash? is unexpected with the texture of the carving.

tejaswrangler Loc: South Texas

Elliott Design wrote:

Here's the first of a series of carved "Punkin Heads" for this year's Halloween, the eyes on this one are catseye marbles. Every year I carve a few of these critters to give my friends and customers. There's an animated slideshow and some photos of previous years on my website if anyone would like to get a short overview of how it's done.

http://www.elliott-design.net/how-to-carve-punkins.htm

Elliott Design, nice, interesting, enjoyable picture. This is an excellent example of someone using their imagination to produce a good picture...you did great. :thumbup: Tejaswrangler :)

Elliott Design Loc: West Tennessee

Thanks, it's been a fun hobby of mine for years. Yes, the color is a light orange spray to help seal and preserve the pumpkin, they start deteriorating pretty quickly.

Chuckster72 wrote:

I've never seen anything like this. Really neat. The color of the squash? is unexpected with the texture of the carving.

psychomom Loc: Indianapolis, IN

Beautiful!

planepics Loc: St. Louis burbs, but originally Chicago burbs

That kind-of looks like one of the monsters from "Ghostbusters!". I could never do anything like that.

Elliott Design Loc: West Tennessee

Thanks, I enjoy finding the character hiding in each pumpkin.

tejaswrangler wrote:

Elliott Design, nice, interesting, enjoyable picture. This is an excellent example of someone using their imagination to produce a good picture...you did great. :thumbup: Tejaswrangler :)