Home &The Weird Wide Web 31 Oct 2006 08:07 pm
Jack-o-lanterns
Our jack-o-lanterns are all carved and glowing. I’m happy with them. And we grew all the pumpkins ourselves!
When Josh said he wanted one of the jack-o-lanterns to be a skull, I all but raced to my computer to bring up a gallery of work by Artemio Rodriguez from La Mano Press. There’s a lot of neat stuff at the La Mano Press website – check out the gorgeous “Muerto Rider” art car.
on 31 Oct 2006 at 8:56 pm 1.trinajo said …
these are amazing!
must be even better knowing they are home-grown! =)
on 01 Nov 2006 at 1:29 am 2.Savannah said …
I love the 2 on the left the best! I recognize the style in the 2nd one in particular and that makes it fun.
on 01 Nov 2006 at 12:44 pm 3.Cam Sculpin said …
Hooray! I wasn’t sure anybody’d get that one. It kind of reminds me of one I did in 2002.
The third one was supposed to be a retro tiki sort of thing, but it didn’t come out too recognizeable as such. The teeth may have been a mistake if I wanted it to be tiki-ish; one of my neighbors said that it looked sort of Northwest Coast, and I guess I can see that in the teeth. (I grew up here, and I hung out at the Burke Museum every chance I got, so it’s no surprise. You hang out with masterworks long enough, some stuff rubs off.) It’s just as well.
I wish I’d decorated the snake as I’d planned, but I was pressed for time, I’d started going too fast, and I took a pretty good slice out of one of my fingers. That’s when I remembered the calm, notably unscarred Swedish woodworker I’d seen in an instructional video about carving with axes. “I am getting a little tired now,” he’d said, “so it is time to leave it for today.” Wise man.
on 01 Nov 2006 at 6:01 pm 4.naomi said …
I’m all impressed. (With the growing, designing, carving, lighting, and photography)
on 31 Oct 2007 at 10:13 pm 5.Sculpin » Jack-o-lanterns 2007 said …
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