Mr. Yuk is ... orange

[nonelvis]

Eh, not so bad, considering I only had half an hour to carve him and I drew him freeform on the surface of the pumpkin. Next year, if I'm feeling ambitious enough, I'll do the full stencil and peeling thing.

This is the first time I've tried messing with the settings on the camera, and though I didn't get quite the glowy effect I wanted, it's better than I expected considering I have virtually no idea what I'm doing.



Mr. Yuk, freshly carved and waiting for a candle. Really, the best thing about carving a pumpkin, in my opinion, is not the finished product, but the pumpkin seeds. Mine just came out of the oven -- I roasted them with olive oil, salt, chili powder, garlic powder, and smoked paprika.


The Fimo Inu is totally unrelated to Hallowe'en, but I've been meaning to take photos of it for ages. Our friend mmancuso, sculptor extraordinaire, brought over some Fimo years ago, and I ended up making a tiny Inu. Her ears have fallen off, but it's still clearly her.


Just to give you an idea of scale, here's a (slightly out of focus) photo of the Fimo Inu and a penny.

Comments

[platypus]

Cute! Both the pumpkin and the Fimo Inu.

I suggest turning off the flash, setting the camera on something and using the self-timer to take a photo of the pumpkin. I can't quite tell if the darker picture had flash on or just a lot of ambient light, but eliminating the former/reducing the latter would probably help with the glowiness.

He looks really disgusted about the chunks of pumpkin on the table :).

[mmancuso.livejournal.com]

I have always liked that fimo inu. What is the japanese character for "fimo-inu"? I think someone should make a sculpture of a penny so that the above picture can be recreated with the real inu. I DO have lots of copper foil..... :) We'd have to tape her ears back. But, then, if we approached her with tape, I gather she'd lay her ears back automatically.