Gladly for us, Nick Dickover is really into pumpkin carving and sculpture. Since 2000, you can admire and learn how to do his Jack-O-Lantern creations online on Fantasy Pumpkins.
He gives most of his templates for free. His patterns are not for the novices. With such levels of details, many are in fact extremely difficult to do.
Learning How to Carve
With a template, you need time and patience to be able to reproduce his works. If you want to learn the tricks of this art, Nick recommends the Carvingpumpkins.com community board. You will find on Carvingpumpkins.com more free patterns and lots of advice on how to carve pumpkins.
Pumpkin Display
Every year, he exhibits his creations outside. Last year he exhibited 25 magnificent pumpkins. Each pumpkin pattern takes between 2 to 23 hours to carve.
He excelled with the shot where Malificent casts her curse. With good reasons, Jack Sparrow was a bit hit in 2006. People mentioned this was the sexiest pumpkin they had ever seen.
If you are in the Washington DC area, Noel prepares an outdoor exhibit every Halloween. You can admire all the pumpkins he made at 14223 Hartwood Court, Centreville VA, 20121. It sounds like a treat.
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+ Carvingpumpkins.com
+ images from FantasyPumpkins.com
Michelle@Everyday Celebrating
October 22, 2008 at 22:09WOW! Now THAT is some skill!!!!!
Noel Dickover
October 25, 2009 at 19:15Hi Kim, I just noticed this post – thanks for the plug to my site! BTW, if you want to see this year’s carvings as they happen ahead of time they are here:
http://www.fantasypumpkins.com/2009-pumpkins/
New patterns are here:
http://www.fantasypumpkins.com/2009-patterns/
Best,
Noel – FantasyPumpkins.com
john
October 30, 2009 at 01:47cool! i love the one of Jack Sparrow!