OK, Here's my Masterpiece from last year. It turns out I like Dragons. I read lots of Fantasy books with them, I collect statues (see my pics for my favorite one) and I collect paintings. One painter I love is Ciruelo Cabral. He does terrific dragons. I have a Giclee of his as well as a print or two including this one:




Now it just so happens that we can take this and turn it into a 4-bit gray scale image. With a bit of touch ups (and shrinkage for this journal) it looks like this:



Now once we have this, its possible to tape it to a pumpkin, do the "pin-cusion" thing on it, and a 4 hours of carving later, Wha-laa!!




In the day time, he doesn't look quite as impressive:




But at night, especially if you're into a whole East versus West Motif done up in dragons, I find it works out pretty well when you put them both on one big ole hurky pumpkin:




As Porky Pig would say, "A-bee-didi-bee-didi-bee....Thats all folks!!!"