Carved Portraits on Watermelons & Pumpkins by student/customers

This article features some of the portraits that have been carved by some of my student/customers and blog readers. Maybe they’ll give you the encouragement to try some of your own. Pumpkins and watermelons that have carved portraits are a great way to honor guests at any special occasion.

Carved Portraits Honor Loved Ones

This first watermelon portrait was carved by Deborah Cheeseman. Deborah, who is a professional caterer as well as a student/customer of mine, created this for a wedding rehearsal dinner. It’s a very good likeness, isn’t it?

Caterer Deborah Cheeseman carved this watermelon portrait for a wedding rehearsal dinner.

This is the original photo that Deborah used to make to pattern for the carve portrait.

You can also see Deborah’s very first pumpkin portrait that she carved of her 90 aunt on a previous blog post.

You can learn how to make carving patterns from photos in my Portrait Carving Course. You can learn more about my video lessons by clicking here.

The next photo shows customer/student, Lynn Schreer’s first carved portrait on a pumpkin. I love Lynne’s sense of humor that shows in what she wrote when she sent me her photo.

Lynne Schreer’s first pumpkin portrait of her 98 year old mother. It sure looks like her.

Besides the fun and recognizable carved portrait that Lynne made, I am amazed that Lynne’s mother in the photo is 98! She looks great. When I mentioned that to Lynne she responded with,

Carved Portraits of Influential Leaders

Retired FBI man, Cary Thornton, carved these next few watermelon portraits of influential leaders, two of whom have passed from this world recently.

Cary Wrote,

Martin Luther King watermelon carved portrait carved by Cary Thornton.

Watermelon portraits of Nelson Mandela, Barrack Obama, and Martin Luther King. “The dream” has come a long way since Martin Luther King’s famous speech in August of 1963.

Carved portrait on watermelon by Cary Thornton features reknown author, poet, dancer, actress and singer, Maya Angelou who passed from this world in June of 2014 at the age of 86. She was also well known as Oprah’s friend and mentor.

Whether you are carving portraits of celebrities or of friends and family, it’s fun to do. A big thank you goes out to Lynne, Deborah and Cary for sharing their pumpkin and watermelon portraits with us.

Looking for more inspiration? You can see another remarkable first time pumpkin portrait by clicking here.

If you want to honor a special person at your next event, check out my Portrait Carving video course. I’d love to see the carved portraits on pumpkin and watermelon that you create.