Amazing and incredible designs
Halloween is a fun time to showcase your imagination, whether it’s through spooky makeup or original outfits. It’s the time of year for pumpkin carver Alex Wer (also known as The Pumpkin Geek) to shine. However, the award-winning inventive creates unique pumpkin carvings influenced by film personalities and popular culture figures instead of sculpting triangular eyes and crooked smiles. It would be a tragedy for Wer’s hand-carved treasures to wither away year after year. He hand-carves onto fake craft pumpkins because he wants them to stay forever.
Wer started carving pumpkins 10 years ago (on Halloween in 2009), after his wife asked him to carve a jack-o’-lantern with the emblem of her business. He even received the first Geekie Award for Best Art/Craft in 2013 as his “orange empire” grew. Wer left his day job in 2017 to focus solely on pumpkin carving, and his brave decision has paid off. He has produced pumpkin artwork for Netflix, ESPN, Legendary Entertainment, and even People Magazine.
It’s easy to understand why Wer’s pumpkin artwork is so well-liked; every hand-carved masterpiece is incredibly detailed. In order to accomplish this, the artist made his own “4 color” carving process, which involves carving and removing various layers to produce depth. Wer adds, “1 area is fully cutout, 2 distinct levels of depth, and lastly, a layer is left undisturbed for the picture’s darkest region. The most realistic end result and tremendous flexibility I discovered in this approach impressed my customers, who also seemed to like it! Depending on how intricate the pattern is, every pumpkin might take up to 6 hours to create. In order to get the “ideal carve,” the artist has progressed to five levels of cutting. ’”
View some of Wer’s most recent pumpkin cutting creations by scrolling down. If you enjoy his designs, you may purchase a unique jack-o-lantern from his webpage.
The Pumpkin Geek, a pumpkin carver, creates unique jack-o-lanterns that are modeled after popular culture figures and movie characters.
These fake craft pumpkins are hand-carved with intricate designs to last a lifetime.
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