Carve a Pumpkin

How was everyone's Halloween?  I hope it was fun and a safe time.  Now that Halloween is over, most people gloss right over Thanksgiving and move straight on to Christmas. I will try my best to behave myself and wait until after Thanksgiving to put up decorations.  I usually try and wait until the day after Thanksgiving to start that process.  This year, Thanksgiving happens to land on my husband and I's 4th wedding anniversary.  I told him I was not cooking a big meal this year since it's just us three and our anniversary.  So, the wonderful man he is, is going to cook BBQ for us since we had BBQ at our wedding.  That's what happens when you are born and raised and married in the great state of Texas, have BBQ at your wedding!

Anyways....back to pumpkins.  This year we carved our pumpkins the day of Halloween since it landed on a Saturday.  My husband carved his usual jack-o-lantern and I found a last minute idea minutes before we started carving.  Not my best work, but something different.  The picture is not the best....take a look:

If you can't tell (which lets face it that's a bad picture) It is fireflies in a jar and some flying around it. 

Now that you have seen my not well planned out, bad picture, poorly carved pumpkin....let's look at some good ones.

Pretty cool and well done huh?  I guess my lesson learned is to start planning for next year now.  The key to good pumpkin carving is the use of negative and positive space.  You have to think about when the candle within is lit, that the orange parts will look black.  The yellow rind will be yellow.  And the completely cut out parts will be white. The main part of pumpkin carving is to control the light and use it to create you image.  It might take some trial and error but you can make some amazing pumpkin carvings too.  So, start planning for next year with me and let's see what we come up with.  So like always, be the best artist you can be!!