This time every year, Scott Cummins, a Texas-based artist, updates his website, www.pumpkingutter.com, with photographs of pumpkins he has recently carved. Well, carved doesn't really do justice to Cummins' work, I'd say sculpted is more like it. Take the pumpkin version of Leonard Nemoy's head (top left), for instance.
The crazed, if not drug addled, looking pumpkin we created just a few short days ago is decaying in the front yard. Makes me think if we only have a short time to enjoy it, why not try to create art from our squash? Except Cummins did say he's been carving pumpkins like these since he was 16 and each pumpkin could take a couple hours...
So, no matter, what do you say, Halloween 2006 -- a Mt. Rushmore pumpkin display (above right)?
If you are now inspired to make a pumpkin worthy of a web site, visit www.pumpkin-carving.com, it is filled to the brim with carving tips, a brief history of pumpkin carving, suggested tools, design ideas and, even, ways to extend your pumpkin's "life span."
Well, for us, maybe next year. I kinda like our crazy, grinning, moldy guy.
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