Impromptu one-hour carving at Rancho La Puerta. I was supposed to be taking a cooking class but they asked me to carve a watermelon from their garden instead.
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Carving A Tiny Pumpkin
Here is a time-lapse video I made of a tiny pumpkin carving. The pumpkin is about four inches in diameter.
Tiny Pumpkin Carving
A face carved into a four-inch wide pumpkin. Watch the time-lapse video of the carving.
GoCarving Gallery
I’m excited that some of my fruit and vegetable carvings are now on display among works from some other amazing sculptors on the GoCarving website.
St. Nickomelon – Watermelon Santa
St. Nickomelon is sleepy after a long night delivering presents to all the good fruits and vegetables of the world. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!
St. Nickomelon
Old Saint Nick carved into a watermelon. Here’s how he looks when illuminated.
Thanksgiving Turkey Pumpkin
Thanksgiving Turkey Pumpkin
This year I carved the turkey… out of a pumpkin. Happy Thanksgiving!
White House Halloween Pumpkins 2011
Carved pumpkins for the White House lawn, Washington, DC. Halloween 2011. Check out the video.
The Captain Beefheart Memorial Jack-o-lantern
The subject of this year’s Memorial Jack-o-lantern is Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart (January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010). Songwriter, vocalist, instrumentalist, and true rock innovator. Beefheart’s wild and wide-ranging voice led The Magic Band through 12 studio albums, and inspired musicians ranging from Tom Waits to Beck to The Black Keys. To create the epic, iconoclastic double album Trout Mask Replica (produced by Frank Zappa), the band lived and rehearsed in a small house for eight months, often in dire conditions. Beefheart wore the head of a carp for the Cal Shenkel-designed album cover (it is a trout mask replica, after all), upon which this memorial jack-o-lantern is based.
You can see a time-lapse video of the carving on the Memorial Jack-o-lanterns page.