Spooky Cyclops Pumpkin - 2007

One of my favorite parts of Halloween was letting the kids design their own jack-o-lanterns. I would often get crazy looking faces with features that are too small for the pumpkin's size, or detail that was well beyond my ability as a pumpkin artist. We would try to find a compromise on the design that they wanted and one that I could actually carve. I would do the slicing and let the kids do the major brain surgery. Gutting the pumpkin and separating the seeds. This was one of Joey's ideas from a few years ago, and probably my favorite. We sketched it out on the pumpkin and I broke out my handy dandy dremmel tool to do the carving. It sat around for a few days and I had a few days off due to rain, so I though I'd take a picture. I needed a dark room so I set it on a stool in my bathroom. (no windows) I experimented with a few shots to get the exposure and ended up with a great shot of a jack-o-lantern. I applied the radial blur through photoshop just to give it a little extra spookiness.