Mr. Lester came to our classroom and painted a face on our pumpkin for the school pumpkin contest. This is the finished product. The students were amazed that Mr. Lester could paint the face without a pattern, stencil or anything. He just painted out of his head, like a real artist.
First we had to paint one side of the pumpkin with white paint.
We did this very carefully.
We almost painted the whole pumpkin. It was so fun to paint down the lines of the pumpkin.
Here Lester is showing us a pumpkin he painted for his wife.
We got to sit outside and observe him as he took the white pummpkin and began to apply paint with his brushes.
We watched him use different colors and blend them together. We saw him put dark colors around the edges of the design to add emphasis. It took 2 1/2 hours to complete the painting.
It was fun to watch the face change and form. Here he is making the teeth. Most of the kids liked the big nose and the funny tongue that hung down. We added some green plastic grass for his hair on top.
Here is the class with both pumpkins and with Mr. Lester. We are so glad he came to our class and shared his artistic talents with us. We enjoyed watching him paint. He also told us some riddles and then he sang us a song he wrote. We hope he comes back to visit. We loved our pumpkin even if it didn't win a prize in the contest. We were proud of our pumpkin and we enjoyed having it in our classroom shelf for a few weeks.
This is Mrs. Prevett's pumpkin. She won a prize. Good Job Mrs. Prevett's class!
Some of the other pumpkins from the pumpkin contest.
This pumpkin won a prize. It is from a Third Grade classroom.
Another Third Grade entry.
All the pumpkins were displayed near the office. Here are some of those pumpkins.
Cute pumpkins.
Cool pumpkins!
...more pumpkins
We liked this bat pumpkin.
I took this picture of a spider that was hanging down from its web on the path I was walking. Cool looking spider.
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