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How to Choose a Pumpkin for Carving
Pumpkin Carving Tools
How to Make a Traditional Jack O' Lantern
Tips for Cutting a Pumpkin
How to Cut a Lid into a Pumpkin
How to Clean Out a Pumpkin
Halloween Pumpkin Carving Tips
Drawing Faces on a Pumpkin
How to Draw Eyes on a Pumpkin
How to Carve Eyes into a Pumpkin
How to Carve a Mouth into a Pumpkin
Tips for Making a Pumpkin Face
How to Make an Air hole in a Pumpkin
How to Light a Pumpkin
What's In a Pumpkin Carving Kit?
Tips for Using a Pumpkin Carving Pattern
How to Attach a Carving Pattern to Your Pumpkin
How to Trace a Jack O Lantern Pattern
How to Use a Bore Tool for Pumpkin Carving
Tips for Seeing Your Pumpkin Pattern
How to Carve a Ghost Pumpkin
Carving a Ghost Design into a Pumpkin
Tips for Finishing a Ghost Pumpkin
How to Carve Detail into Your Pumpkin
Lighting a Ghost Pumpkin
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Vincent Laporta is a professional graphic artist. Locally, he is renowned for his creative pumpkin carvings. He often carving more than 30 pumpkins each season for friends, family,...read more
"Hi! This is Vincent Laporta for Expert Village. Now that we already cut out our face, the smaller of the detail, now we can cut out the larger areas on our pumpkin without any danger of us pushing the whole pattern right through the pumpkin. Start with out pumpkin. Use our big blade and keep a nice up and down motion and we're just going to start cutting. When you get to the end of the detail of it, that when you just go a little bit slow because there is curves for the end. I like to put the pumpkin on my lap so I have more control of it and I'm able to turn it around and do what I have to do for these cuts, because some of theme are a little bit intricate. Now this is when we start having to turn it, so just be careful and let the saw do the work. You just go up and down so you don't twist the blade because these are the cuts that break the blades. Don't be afraid if you have to take it out to redirect it. Here's our first piece. You can see that our ghost is starting to take shape. When I cut a couple more, you'll see the whole thing together. I'll cut the other side off. Don't be afraid to use the pattern as a reference if you can't see the dots, or you can use a ball point pen if you want to trace the dots, which is another technique, but then you have to clean up the pen afterwards. The flour is good because it doesn't leave a stain and you can just pull it right out. Erase it right off and you don't have to scrub it down. "
eHow Article: Carving a Ghost Design into a Pumpkin
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