Sgt. Striker
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Sorry, it's just a pic of a witch's cat jack-o-lantern that my wife carved. Cool, ain't it?
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Sorry, it's just a pic of a witch's cat jack-o-lantern that my wife carved. Cool, ain't it?
Yeah, that's pretty cool. Do you have any more pictures? I can't really tell how it was made with just that one pic.Sorry, it's just a pic of a witch's cat jack-o-lantern that my wife carved. Cool, ain't it?
Yeah, that's pretty cool. Do you have any more pictures? I can't really tell how it was made with just that one pic.Sorry, it's just a pic of a witch's cat jack-o-lantern that my wife carved. Cool, ain't it?
Yeah, that makes sense, it didn't look like it was carved the usual way.Yeah, that's pretty cool. Do you have any more pictures? I can't really tell how it was made with just that one pic.Sorry, it's just a pic of a witch's cat jack-o-lantern that my wife carved. Cool, ain't it?
It's quite easy actually. You take a stencil of a picture that you would like to do (black and white is preferred), and then stencil it on the pumpkin.
The places that you want it to remain dark (black in the picture), you simply leave alone. The places that you want to appear white, you carve into the pumpkin about 3/4ths of the way through the rind (remember, DO NOT GO ALL THE WAY THROUGH). And, carving only a little way through will let some light out, but it will also yield a darker shade than if you went all the way down to the pith (white of the rind).
However.................in order to carve pumpkins like that, you're gonna need a bit more than just your average kitchen knife. Wood carving tools are the way to go if you can invest a couple of bucks.
Google "how to carve pumpkins" and you can get even more details on how the technique operates.
Incidentally, carving pumpkins like that is a good way to go in windy areas, because they don't have openings all the way from the inside to the outside.
Yeah, that makes sense, it didn't look like it was carved the usual way.Yeah, that's pretty cool. Do you have any more pictures? I can't really tell how it was made with just that one pic.Sorry, it's just a pic of a witch's cat jack-o-lantern that my wife carved. Cool, ain't it?
It's quite easy actually. You take a stencil of a picture that you would like to do (black and white is preferred), and then stencil it on the pumpkin.
The places that you want it to remain dark (black in the picture), you simply leave alone. The places that you want to appear white, you carve into the pumpkin about 3/4ths of the way through the rind (remember, DO NOT GO ALL THE WAY THROUGH). And, carving only a little way through will let some light out, but it will also yield a darker shade than if you went all the way down to the pith (white of the rind).
However.................in order to carve pumpkins like that, you're gonna need a bit more than just your average kitchen knife. Wood carving tools are the way to go if you can invest a couple of bucks.
Google "how to carve pumpkins" and you can get even more details on how the technique operates.
Incidentally, carving pumpkins like that is a good way to go in windy areas, because they don't have openings all the way from the inside to the outside.