Fall Wood Pumpkins

Here is some wood pumpkins I created several years ago and thought it would be fun to share with you.  Pumpkins are not very hard to draw out -- they are basically an oval, round, or oblong shape.  I love to use 1" pine boards for my wood crafts with accents of 1/4" thin ply board.  I'm so lucky to have a handy hubby to cut all of my wood for me.  :)


Lots of shading, doodling, accents and more make the pumpkins look very realistic.  On this set I used ivy garland, wrapped it around various areas and secured with my staple gun.  Spanish moss adds the extra touches at the bases of the pumpkins as well as covers up some of base for a decorative effect.  

As a wood crafter there are always scraps, left overs and odds n ends that don't get used in the project -- so my hubby will cut them into blocks for me to paint on.  I used a checkerboard stencil on the ends.  "Pumpkin Patch" was handwritten with my paintbrush.  It took many years of practice to learn to write with my brushes and as you can see I was a little off center -- no problem, I added a little rusty heart to the end and waaa laaaa…..you have a cute and adorable little board/block.  


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