When I first moved to the United States, twelve years ago—can’t believe it has been so long already—I was exposed to the American art of pumpkin carving and decorating. Once I painted my first pumpkin, I realized I didn’t want for it to go to waste and be forgotten. So I started buying foam pumpkins to paint them with acrylics. Since then, every fall I paint at least one pumpkin—usually around three or four. Now, I have quiet a collection lying around the house all year long. Here are a few pictures of some of my special pumpkins.
Monica La Porta 
My gosh, Monica! These are AMAZING! How do you toss them out??
Thank you, Elise. After the first one, which was a real pumpkin, I started buying foam ones because I kind of grew attached to them 🙂
Those are SO unique Monica! Amazing! I love that they are foam! They certainly don’t look like it! 🙂 You should sell them!
Thanks, Lisa. The Seattle ones were commissioned by friends. The rest I kept for me 🙂
They are beautiful, and somehow put me in mind the of canal folk art.
Thank you, Julia! What’s canal folk art? Very curious 🙂
I am in love with the ones that look like European villages… the ones with stacks and stacks of houses on a hill… LOVE.
Thank you, MsCheevious 🙂 More of the Italian country villages coming in one of the next posts.
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Thank you, Alle 🙂