noski
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Does anyone carve pumpkins for Halloween? Do you a have favorite technique? Pics of your masterpiece(s)?
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Carving Pumpkins
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Hawkshot99
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I dont know if I will be makeing one this year.
But when i do, I pick a image I want to be on the pumpkin. I tame the image to the face and use a small nail to poke all of the lines into the pumpkin through the paper. Remove the paper and rub flour into the holes so they are easier to see, and I use the smallest saw i have ever seen to cut out connect-the-dots style.
But when i do, I pick a image I want to be on the pumpkin. I tame the image to the face and use a small nail to poke all of the lines into the pumpkin through the paper. Remove the paper and rub flour into the holes so they are easier to see, and I use the smallest saw i have ever seen to cut out connect-the-dots style.
severine
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The kids carved pumpkins with their grandma this year. I may still do it with them as their early efforts are wilting already. Can't say I have any kind of technique though... I draw on the pumpkin then cut away. Hawkshot's technique sounds interesting, though. I do like the carving kits, at least for safety sake with the kids.
noski
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I carved one on Saturday. I went for the gusto, picked out the darkest green pumpkin I could find and carved Barack Obama. I did the pattern/nail outline, but I sure wish I had heard about the flour, that would have saved me amputating his right eye. I will post a picture tomorrow of it lit. It is really cool. DON'T let this get political (though we managed to squeeze 9 pages out of the college kids & the vote thread!- a record!)
Hawkshot99
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My mom originally bought me one of these kits long ago.
Since then I have lost enough parts or broken stuff that I have built my own kit. The pumpkins I make are like the ones you see in the background.
billski
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our family has carved a few too many fingers. we had to tone it down and converted to carving styrofoam pumpkins with plastic knives. 
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I prefer a jigsaw and a drill.
hardline
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they did one over at the bar last week for the kids and parents in the area. it was a beer tasting/ carving event. we where worried that there somebody was going to slice themselves.
playoutside
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I love carving pumpkins, need to get some this week. Must be done outside on a pile of newspapers. Save the seeds for roasting. Strongly recommend using power tools to help with the carving. Cordless drill really helps start the cuts. Curves are a breeze when you start with a series of small holes.
cbcbd
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One year I went crazy and made these with my girlfriend then... in my Simpsons watching craze haydays...
The bigger one with the tongue and ghost in it's mouth I just drew on it freehand with a pen since it was a pumpkin of my own design.
For all of the parts where I didn't carve-through I would cut out just the surface skin and then shave the inside of the pumpkin behind it very carefully so it would be thick enough to stay but thin enough that light would pass through. The character pumpkins were all done that way but the big pumpkin face I mixed the traditional carve-through with this technique (ie. the tongue, the ghost, flames on ears, and extra lines/gashes) to make it more interesting.
The putting the image to the pumpkin and then using a needle or something pointy to poke out the lines was what I did for the cartoon character ones.
The bigger one with the tongue and ghost in it's mouth I just drew on it freehand with a pen since it was a pumpkin of my own design.
For all of the parts where I didn't carve-through I would cut out just the surface skin and then shave the inside of the pumpkin behind it very carefully so it would be thick enough to stay but thin enough that light would pass through. The character pumpkins were all done that way but the big pumpkin face I mixed the traditional carve-through with this technique (ie. the tongue, the ghost, flames on ears, and extra lines/gashes) to make it more interesting.
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severine
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Those are very cool! There's a tool we used in art class in 7th or 8th grade when we made our own stamps that would have worked well for removing the surface skin like that. I can't remember what it was called, but hmmm....
If only I had more time. There are a million things I'd love to do if only I had enough time.
If only I had more time. There are a million things I'd love to do if only I had enough time.
Ha Ha Ha Ha, I love the blinky pumpkin. :lol:
noski
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Here is my Obama Pumpkin. You sort of have to step away from the screen, I need to try photographing again using a tripod so I don't move the camera at all.
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Here is my Obama Pumpkin. You sort of have to step away from the screen, I need to try photographing again using a tripod so I don't move the camera at all.
that is impressive
billski
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Hey bama man, What do you do, project an image onto it first?
noski
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Naw- the Hawkshot method. Pin a paper pattern on and punch holes along the outlines. The hardest part is when you cut trying to remember the positive and negative spaces. I amputated most of his right eye and had to fiddle with it. I downloaded the pattern free. Google search Pumpkin Carving Political. I think I chose the one from the Associated Press site. They have lots of free patterns.
cbcbd
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Nice Obama... maybe I'll do one of Palin in a bikini this year.
That's it? No one's got any more pumpkin pictures? lame
That's it? No one's got any more pumpkin pictures? lame
billski
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cbcbd
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yeah yeah, hide behind the skiing... fine
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