2010 Pumpkin Carving: Batman #pumpkins #batman
I picked up two foam pumpkins from Michael’s craft store for this year. Here’s the process of the first one I carved. Years ago, I had made a Jim Lee Batman for a prize for the first Wonder Woman Day. I kept making comic book pumpkins for people as gifts and kept only the Black Cat and Captain America ones for myself. (In fact, the Cap had been a gift that was “returned.”) I wanted a Batman pumpkin for myself because he seems like one of the best examples of a comic book icon befitting Halloween. His rogues gallery fits the season awfully well too. I’m thinking of doing the Mad Hatter as my second piece for this year if I get to it.
 | Set up for the project. Just on the floor hunched over. Broken hot knife at the ready. Also, just stabbed myself with that knife prior to plugging it in. |
 | Poking guide holes in pattern. |
 | Finished with hole poking. |
 | In progress. Pretty ugly at this point. |
 | Can't even see that there's a Batman in it. |
 | Carving finished. Took about 3 hours not counting the preliminary design time. |
 | Finished! |
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 | Original image by Scott Cohn |
Until I migrate the pics, the gallery of previous years’ carvings is at Facebook.
