Extreme Pumpkin Carving: 20 Amazing designs from Frightful to Fabulous

Extreme Pumpkin Carving: 20 Amazing designs from Frightful to Fabulous

Extreme Pumpkin Carving: 20 Amazing designs from Frightful to Fabulous

Extreme Pumpkin Carving: 20 Amazing designs from Frightful to Fabulous

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Overview

Want to make the best pumpkin in your neighborhood? Here's how! Whether you prefer to use professional woodworking tools or a regular kitchen knife, you'll learn to create a jaw-dropping pumpkin with Extreme Pumpkin Carving. The incredible designs included will be sure to impress and amaze.*20 awesome patterns for three-dimensional faces & scenes *Step-by-step directions for professional pumpkin carving using kitchen knives or carving tools *Expert advice - Learn how to create realistic facial elements like cheeks, lips, and eyebrows and bring your pumpkins to life! *An amazing gallery of expertly designed pumpkin art, with pictures of each finished carving *Uses Whole Pumpkins - no scooping necessary! Take your pumpkin carving skills to the next level with this collection of designs. Explore design options not traditionally found on a Jack-O-Lantern. Learn expert carving techniques to make your Halloween designs stand out from everyone else's. This compilation of designs uses carving techniques usually reserved for woodworking and stonework, enabling you to make the kind of eye-catching designs that your guests and visitors will not soon forget. The designs assembled in this collection showcase the unconventional style of carving into the flesh instead of through the pumpkin. This allows the artist an opportunity to focus on three-dimensional design, leaving room to add definition to lips, noses, cheeks, and other facial features. Pumpkin carving has become a beloved Halloween tradition, and you will learn about how this art form became a part of it. Plus you can learn how to select the right pumpkin for your design, then follow the step-by-step instructions to make a memorable Jack-O-Lantern. With a detailed photo gallery of the included designs and the necessary instruction to make it come to life, your neighborhood will never forget the designs that you make. From spooky to amazing, make your holiday décor stand out and create lasting memories this Halloween with Extreme Pumpkin Carving.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781565232136
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 04/01/2004
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Vic Hood is the president of a unique building corporation, Leatherwood, Inc., which specializes in historic restoration. As a restorationist, Vic has been responsible for the restoration of several presidential houses, national landmarks, national monuments and house museums. He started carving in 1991, concentrating on carving full-size human busts for which he has won 83 awards, including several Best of Show awards. His most treasured honor was to be selected to create a Christmas ornament for the White House in 2001. Vic is one of the founders of the Leipers Fork Carving Club in Leipers Fork, Tennessee. Vic studied carving under John Burke and Larry Rogers for several years before becoming a carving instructor himself. He currently teaches classes on carving the human bust at several major workshops around the country and at individual club workshops. Due to Vics experience in competitive pumpkin carving, he was invited to be the featured pumpkin carver at the 2003 Gentry Farms Pumpkin Festival. Vic, along with Jack Williams, co-authored Carving Found Wood, published by Fox Chapel Publishing Co., Inc.

Jack A. Williams is a commercial photographer working from his studio in Knoxville, Tennessee. Photography was once a hobby for Jack until he discovered he could make a living doing what he enjoyed. He then needed a new hobby, so in 1973 he started woodcarving. His artistic talents have been demonstrated with a third Best of Show in the first National Caricature Carving Competition held at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri; a Best of Show at the Ward Wildfowl Carving Competition in Ocean City, Maryland; Peoples and Carvers Choice and Best of Wood Sculpture at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee; and Best of Division at the International Woodcarvers Congress in Davenport, Iowa. Jack also won first place in the Flex-Cut Tool Internet Carving Competition in 2001. The year 2003 marks Jacks 12th year to coordinate the woodcarving show at Dollywood, which hosts The Great Pumpkin Carving Competition, and to coordinate the National Caricature Carving Competition. In 2003 Jack was elected to become a member of the Caricature Carvers of America and is President and one of the founders of the Tennessee Carvers Guild. Jack now spends a great deal of time photographing carvings at shows and for friends, and his photography appears frequently in many magazines on woodcarving and other subjects. Jack is a co-author of Carving Found Wood with Vic Hood and of The Illustrated Guide to Carving Tree Bark with Rick Jensen, both published by Fox Chapel Publishing Co., Inc.

Table of Contents

Introduction Getting Started Step-By-Step Extreme Pumpkin Carving Using Readily Available Knives to Relief-Carve a Pumpkin Using Woodcarving Tools to Relief-Carve a Pumpkin Extreme Pumpkin Patterns
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