Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Day 111 - Little People

Oddly enough, grown ups stress over carving pumpkins. Adults think, "It has to be perfect!" Our subconcious mind translating that statement into, "This will be my greatest masterpiece!" And they then proceed to freak out over the whole event, making everyone miserable because someone could possibly slightly ever so subtley crash and burn into a big carving mistake. Sad isn't it?

Kids, on the other hand, don't think about failure. About carving it "wrong." Don't worry that every line has to be perfect. Heck, they don't even have to carve the pumpkin to have fun! A stuffed animal- sized wig, chalk or markers, can turn little pumpkins into little people in the blink of a child's eye. Does my Godson look like he's stressing out here? Nope, and neither should you. Pumpkin carving is a perfect experience if you don't worry about carving perfectly. Have fun and, however things turn out, you'll have a perfectly great time that you'll never forget...for all of the RIGHT reasons.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Day 105 - Necromancer


Yet another of my all time favorite carvings. I carved this portrait of Necromancer for the game Guild Wars awhile back. It was one of the most challenging carvings I've ever done. What the picture doesn't show are the braids extending around the pumpkin.


Isn't she gorgeous? Especially for a pumpkin!

Monday, August 17, 2009

Day 17 - Fear Factor


My life has always worked in reverse...I had the career before I went to college. It's only been in recent years that I've attended college...and even on my hardest days I've loved every minute of it! The best part is that after having completed my basic courses, all I have left are art classes!!! I created today's painting for one such class. My classmates and I each had to pick an emotion out of a hat. We were then to paint a black and white abstract that would communicate our chosen feeling. Finished, we were to paint the abstract again, this time using a particular color group. I'm a carver, not a painter, so this assignment just about killed me...but I still loved how this eerie work turned out. Can you guess what my emotion was?