pumpkin art

 for its month long 2013 fast ocean park theme park in honk kong exhibited the worlds largest collection of pickled pumpkins sculptures more than 400 spooky designs created by master  carvers ray vilafane  and Andy Bergholtz The centerpiece was a grotesque more than 1,000 454kg. which had been specially handpicked by ray in the USA   Using just  spoon  and scalpels ray and his team spent hours on each sculptures before the finished pumpkins were immersed in vinegar to preserve them for visitors  to enjoy.  Andy cuts away  the skin of the pumpkin before getting las work using just a scalpel and a spoon.when looking for a good pumping to carve ray selects the meatiest I also like a pumpkin  with characters one with knobbly  ridges is good so that can utilize  that in the  carving  process like sculpting noses. However because the process is unpredictable he can never  be sure whether the texture  or flesh color will be ideal for sculpting  until he actually starts carving ray uses the natural texture in the pumpkins flesh to work on  his design's features. ray previous lifelike pumpkin  sculptures have   included gorillas  clowns birds and actor Johnny Deep  He be began carving  pumpkin one  day to entertain his  art students  at school  when he lived   in bell air Michigan Sculpting has always been my passion he says but most importantly  the kids at school  absolutely loved them for days after that there would  be a dozen  pumpkins sitting on my desk waiting for me to carve them. The finished design are  dipped in vinegar  to preserve them. from called book Ripley  believe  it or not