7 months too late, but in the US (especially New England, where I live), orange pumpkins are the ones we have all the time. Mostly, the larger orange ones are for jack o'lanterns, but there are small ones called sugar pumpkins which are cute and really good to make pies with, though I like to make a dish from Afghanistan called Kaddo Bourani, which is pumpkin puree with a meat sauce and yogurt sauce over it. It's kind of sweet and savory and delicious.
Never too late! I still love learning about everyone's local pumpkins 😅 Very cool to hear about an American eating pumpkin in a savoury way too. In Australia pumpkin is pretty much exclusively savoury (eaten alongside roast meat, as pumpkin soup or in a salad etc). Your dish from Afghanistan sounds lovely!
_Suggestion for the German lithograph_ - Keep the print in the orignal frame - it's kept that piece safe for all these years, no reason to mess with perfection. Which means you don't get direct access to the print... You can, however, Paint The Glass (to misquote Die Hard). Add whatever you want to it while keeping the orignal intact. Ta da? I don't know what paint would be best to use. Acrylic will flake. Oils take forever to dry. Is there a paint for glass? Maybe those new Sharpie colour pens? Don't know... Anywho, great work. Well done. Spooky walls are cool. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Thanks Cathy! I think there is specifically glass paint, but I decided I quite like the artwork and the frame as is so I just hung it in our kitchen when we moved 😊
In Estonia orange pumpkins are the most common. You pretty much only see them in the fall, because that's when they're in season. Also I've seen more and more of the small fun pumpkins being sold; they come in so many fun colours and shapes :D
Our 🎃 pumpkins here in the US are usually mostly orange rounded but farmers can grow yellow ones, reddish orange, yellow and green, green, pinkish, ones with pumps looks like warts, curved ones, all kinds...
10 months later, we've basically come full circle to the right time of year again. Im in Michigan, USA and we have a large variety of pumpkins and assorted gourds. White, yellow, blue/green, orange, bumpy/warty orange and green pumpkins!
I live in England and never see pumpkins outside of October. These are the regular orange 🍊 ones. Plus, I thought your paintings were both creative and artistic.
Ive recently found your videos and am now working my way through all of them! I don't normally comment on youtube but I feel like your videos need more interaction so more people can find them :D I love the style of your videos and how your personality shines through, you are extremely relatable! (I also love that you still call them op-shops and not thrift stores!) No one else has mentioned the frame from the 90s with the nose and hands popping over the top, but I remember them too! Re the pumpkins - I've lived in Melbourne (well, Geelong) about ten years ago, and have lived in NZ the rest of my life and i dont think i have ever seen an orange pumpkin in real life haha. All of our pumpkins are grey/green on the outside, or the butternut ones, no matter what the time of year is 🤷♀️
Thank you so much! I definitely appreciate the interaction 😊 You know I tried calling them thrift stores a few times so my American audience would understand but it's just so ingrained, they'll always be op shops to me! And OMG I am so happy to hear someone else remembers the 90s frame!! 🥰
In southwestern US, I never see pumpkins outside of fall. They are usually orange, sometimes pale yellow. If you wanna cook with pumpkin, canned pumpkin is kinda the only year round option. Though most folks I know don’t cook with jack o lantern pumpkin anyhow
In Virginia, USA we always have orange pumpkins. There are specific kinds for carving Jack O Lanterns and other kinds for kinds for baking. Other colors are usually more like gords. Glad to see the wedding was a success. Hugs from Va..Pam
I sure don't see very many baking pumpkins at normal grocery stores, maybe Whole Foods? I thought everyone just used canned pumpkin! Also from Virginia but, the part where everyone just orders every meal on GrubEatsWhatever. 😃 Wait, pumpkins come in BLUE!??
@@jessicav2031 I'm down in coastal VA. close to Williamsburg, not far from the North Carolina border. If you go out to the farms you can find pumpkins for cooking. Lucky for me, my family isn't really interested in pumpkin pie. We're all about the pecan pie 😁
I'm from Portugal, and we always have orange pumpkins at the supermarket! My grandfather used to grow them, he had two varieties in his garden, green and orange ones 😀 I have no idea about the species names though. I love your channel and your personality, I subscribed as soon as I saw the 1st wedding dress video! Sometimes TH-cam does recommend awesome creators 💙
I'm a bit late to the pumpkin party but they come in all kinds of colors. Pink, white, green & orange. I love when they all show up at the store. I buy loads of them every year
@ashbentley They're supposed to be a bit sweeter but I haven't actually cooked one. I live in south Texas by the time they've done their job as decoration the pumpkins are too rotten to cook.😅
LOVE LOVE LOVE your paintings …. Especially the ship one … the lightening was amazing and you definitely made the picture better …. Oh and my dogs trick me too and we always end up at the treat cupboard…. 💖💖💖💖. Great video again Ash xxx Tina
I'm in the US and pumpkins are orange on the outside here. Although you can get white and some other fancy ones now too, but I've never seen green ones. Also they mostly don't taste very good if you want to eat them and not just decorate.
We have orange pumpkins where I live! I'm over in rural Ontario Canada. It's so cool to learn that you guys import your orange ones for the occasion though!
I love these! So creative. I always check over the paintings at op shops but never see something inspiring to paint over. Or if I do, they're over $20 and that's too much to potentially ruin. One day!
Oh thank you!! I loved doing them, and they have pride-of-place in my living room! It also may have taken *multiple* op shop trips to find good paintings 😂
*sighs happily* I've found your account a few weeks ago and haven't had the time to binge-watch all of your videos UNTIL NOW, so I'm spending my weekend productively hehe. Your videos are so wholesome and I love every single one so far. Also, pumpkins - We get orange ones but also yellow and green ones :) The orange ones are the 'regular' round pumpkins (Hokkaido) whereas the others have different shapes. But the really big orange ones for carving are around only in October. For carving, I guess... Anyway - I'm gonna continue watching all of your videos now :D
Oh yay! Thanks so much for hanging out! You're very sweet ❤ And thank you for the pumpkin info, I hadn't really thought about how pumpkins get used in Japan (I am assuming Japan because of Hokkaido) I'll have to have a closer look next time I visit!
I only recently found your videos and have been going though the back log of them (they are exactly my thing I do not understand how you weren't recommended before!) When you got to the end of your adorable pumpkin skeleton painting it really made me think of an art material that I really thought you'd enjoy knowing about! That being Rub 'n buff, it's essentially a metallic paint made to put over different materials to make them look like metal, it works really well and would really suit that frame you've used (Of course he is already perfect how he is but I figured it would be a fun thing to know about for other things :)) Love your content!!
Welcome! I'm so glad you found my channel 😄 Oh my gosh this rub n buff looks excellent, I hadn't heard of it before but there are so many things I would use that for. Thanks so much! 🤗
Just found you love your humor! I wish I could see but ah, I have a new machine I’m afraid to set up! But I’m loving your craft videos. PS: even when foam clay is totally dry water will dissolve it… so you can smooth it with water after a little soaking! 😂 PSS: A little gold dry brush on skelky would be cute! 🥰
Welcome and thank you! I absolutely get the getting a new machine/hobby tool and putting off giving it a try! I have a huge embroidery frame and a whole bunch of wool and knitting needles that I've never used. But sewing is the best! I do hope you give it a try because it's sooo satisfying. And thank you for the tips! ❤
you had me on semi-deep google search. was the play called "The Cherry Pickers"? dont get me wrong, i know nothing about it, but it seems closest to what you were describing. I cant find the review from Umberto Eco tho..
Oh my gosh you prompted me to try look it up again and I found it! It's called Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and apparently it's one of Australia's most famous plays lol. I can't find that Umberto Eco ever said anything about it, so I must have combined two memories from English class there haha. Thank you so much!!
They turned out so great! Your pumpkin friend reminds me of an amazing artist called Zan von Zed. Go check out their channel! About the pumpkins: I live in New England, an area of North America from which pumpkins are actually native. All those autumnal aesthetics--pumpkin patches, misty morning drives, scarecrows, haunted hayrides, changing leaves--are an actual thing here. Those green pumpkins are probably a specific cultivar of squash that can grow well in your climate. Ours only get picked after the temperature starts to drop. We get every shade from white to yellow to orange to almost red. I must say that I like your green ones! 🎃
Thank you so much!! I had NO idea that's where pumpkins were native!! That's so cool! I think my favourite are the grey-green butternut ones. Easy to cook with and a little bit sweeter 😊
Pumpkins are orange or white on the outside. The pie pumpkins are always orange on the outside. For context, I live in New Mexico, United States of America.
As for the etching, I suggest painting on the glass so u can add your monsters, but the art itself is preserved
Good idea, thanks!
7 months too late, but in the US (especially New England, where I live), orange pumpkins are the ones we have all the time. Mostly, the larger orange ones are for jack o'lanterns, but there are small ones called sugar pumpkins which are cute and really good to make pies with, though I like to make a dish from Afghanistan called Kaddo Bourani, which is pumpkin puree with a meat sauce and yogurt sauce over it. It's kind of sweet and savory and delicious.
Never too late! I still love learning about everyone's local pumpkins 😅 Very cool to hear about an American eating pumpkin in a savoury way too. In Australia pumpkin is pretty much exclusively savoury (eaten alongside roast meat, as pumpkin soup or in a salad etc). Your dish from Afghanistan sounds lovely!
Pumpkins are indigenous to America the jack o'lantern thing actually started in Ireland using a turnip and some sort of oil or wax used for a lamp
_Suggestion for the German lithograph_ - Keep the print in the orignal frame - it's kept that piece safe for all these years, no reason to mess with perfection. Which means you don't get direct access to the print... You can, however, Paint The Glass (to misquote Die Hard). Add whatever you want to it while keeping the orignal intact. Ta da?
I don't know what paint would be best to use. Acrylic will flake. Oils take forever to dry. Is there a paint for glass? Maybe those new Sharpie colour pens? Don't know...
Anywho, great work. Well done. Spooky walls are cool.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
Thanks Cathy! I think there is specifically glass paint, but I decided I quite like the artwork and the frame as is so I just hung it in our kitchen when we moved 😊
In Estonia orange pumpkins are the most common. You pretty much only see them in the fall, because that's when they're in season. Also I've seen more and more of the small fun pumpkins being sold; they come in so many fun colours and shapes :D
Ooh, that's so interesting. Can I ask how you normally eat pumpkins in Estonia? This is still such a fascinating topic 😄
@@ashbentley Tbh I'm not a big fan of pumpkin, but I've mostly seen it pickled and on occasion a puree soup. Pumpkin seeds are a pretty ok snack
Pickled?! This is new to me
The music of " what shall we do with a drunken sailor" is now living in my head. Thank you.
Haha you are welcome 😊 I've had Celine Dion stuck in my head for days so I'll trade you 😂
Our 🎃 pumpkins here in the US are usually mostly orange rounded but farmers can grow yellow ones, reddish orange, yellow and green, green, pinkish, ones with pumps looks like warts, curved ones, all kinds...
I love pumpkin lore!
Love the pumpkin skeleton SO cute, that frame was such a good find ! its giving me 'over the garden wall' vibes and im here for it
Thank you! I was so stoked when I saw the frame ☺
love love love the idea of a spooky art wall!!!!
I'm going to make so many dang things for this spooky wall 😂
10 months later, we've basically come full circle to the right time of year again. Im in Michigan, USA and we have a large variety of pumpkins and assorted gourds. White, yellow, blue/green, orange, bumpy/warty orange and green pumpkins!
Yay spooky season again! Thanks for the pumpkin info 😊
I live in England and never see pumpkins outside of October. These are the regular orange 🍊 ones. Plus, I thought your paintings were both creative and artistic.
That's so interesting!! This video has taught me far too much about pumpkins 😂
Ive recently found your videos and am now working my way through all of them! I don't normally comment on youtube but I feel like your videos need more interaction so more people can find them :D I love the style of your videos and how your personality shines through, you are extremely relatable! (I also love that you still call them op-shops and not thrift stores!) No one else has mentioned the frame from the 90s with the nose and hands popping over the top, but I remember them too! Re the pumpkins - I've lived in Melbourne (well, Geelong) about ten years ago, and have lived in NZ the rest of my life and i dont think i have ever seen an orange pumpkin in real life haha. All of our pumpkins are grey/green on the outside, or the butternut ones, no matter what the time of year is 🤷♀️
Thank you so much! I definitely appreciate the interaction 😊 You know I tried calling them thrift stores a few times so my American audience would understand but it's just so ingrained, they'll always be op shops to me! And OMG I am so happy to hear someone else remembers the 90s frame!! 🥰
In southwestern US, I never see pumpkins outside of fall. They are usually orange, sometimes pale yellow. If you wanna cook with pumpkin, canned pumpkin is kinda the only year round option. Though most folks I know don’t cook with jack o lantern pumpkin anyhow
Still so interesting to me! We only really see the grey/yellow ones, and I don't think I've ever seen canned pumpkin!
In Virginia, USA we always have orange pumpkins. There are specific kinds for carving Jack O Lanterns and other kinds for kinds for baking. Other colors are usually more like gords.
Glad to see the wedding was a success.
Hugs from Va..Pam
I sure don't see very many baking pumpkins at normal grocery stores, maybe Whole Foods? I thought everyone just used canned pumpkin!
Also from Virginia but, the part where everyone just orders every meal on GrubEatsWhatever. 😃
Wait, pumpkins come in BLUE!??
Thank you Pam!!
@@jessicav2031 I'm down in coastal VA. close to Williamsburg, not far from the North Carolina border. If you go out to the farms you can find pumpkins for cooking. Lucky for me, my family isn't really interested in pumpkin pie. We're all about the pecan pie 😁
@@pamkarickhoff7814 Ah, real VA. Not NoVA 😊
I'm from Portugal, and we always have orange pumpkins at the supermarket! My grandfather used to grow them, he had two varieties in his garden, green and orange ones 😀 I have no idea about the species names though.
I love your channel and your personality, I subscribed as soon as I saw the 1st wedding dress video! Sometimes TH-cam does recommend awesome creators 💙
Oh that's so sweet of you to say! Thank you 🥰🥰
That skeleton guy is so terribly cute! Loved all the artwork, if I would come across that kraken paiting I would buy it for sure
That's so lovely of you to say! Thank you ☺
I fascinated by the green pumpkin rant. I don't think I've seen green pumpkins that are fully grown
I wish I had put some footage in from the grocers of our pumpkin varieties! I still find everyone's local pumpkins so interesting
I'm a bit late to the pumpkin party but they come in all kinds of colors. Pink, white, green & orange. I love when they all show up at the store. I buy loads of them every year
You're never late to the pumpkin party! Pink pumpkins sound interesting! Do they have a different flavour?
@ashbentley They're supposed to be a bit sweeter but I haven't actually cooked one. I live in south Texas by the time they've done their job as decoration the pumpkins are too rotten to cook.😅
LOVE LOVE LOVE your paintings …. Especially the ship one … the lightening was amazing and you definitely made the picture better …. Oh and my dogs trick me too and we always end up at the treat cupboard…. 💖💖💖💖. Great video again Ash xxx Tina
🥰🥰 Thank you Tina! and I swear, Alf spends 80% of his time aimed towards the treat cupboard 😂
I love Spooky
Me too 😊
Always get orange yellow green pumpkins but Halloween all the small orange pumpkins appear lol 😂❤ Anita uk xxxx
“Lorelai wasn’t a good parent” you’re right and you should say it!!! 😂😂😂 this was so enjoyable to watch 😊
Haha I think you're the first person to mention that! And thank you for agreeing with me 😂
I'm in the US and pumpkins are orange on the outside here. Although you can get white and some other fancy ones now too, but I've never seen green ones. Also they mostly don't taste very good if you want to eat them and not just decorate.
I feel so sad for all the Americans missing out on the joy of roast pumpkin with brown gravy 😢
We have orange pumpkins where I live! I'm over in rural Ontario Canada. It's so cool to learn that you guys import your orange ones for the occasion though!
I love all the pumpkin trivia ❤️☺️
I love these! So creative. I always check over the paintings at op shops but never see something inspiring to paint over. Or if I do, they're over $20 and that's too much to potentially ruin. One day!
Oh thank you!! I loved doing them, and they have pride-of-place in my living room! It also may have taken *multiple* op shop trips to find good paintings 😂
*sighs happily* I've found your account a few weeks ago and haven't had the time to binge-watch all of your videos UNTIL NOW, so I'm spending my weekend productively hehe. Your videos are so wholesome and I love every single one so far.
Also, pumpkins - We get orange ones but also yellow and green ones :) The orange ones are the 'regular' round pumpkins (Hokkaido) whereas the others have different shapes. But the really big orange ones for carving are around only in October. For carving, I guess... Anyway - I'm gonna continue watching all of your videos now :D
Oh yay! Thanks so much for hanging out! You're very sweet ❤ And thank you for the pumpkin info, I hadn't really thought about how pumpkins get used in Japan (I am assuming Japan because of Hokkaido) I'll have to have a closer look next time I visit!
Don't really see much pumpkins in our shops until Halloween in Scotland
I'M LEARNING SO MUCH!! I thought they would be a Scottish staple food! Learn something new every day :)
@ashbentley before pumpkins became a thing here we would carve faces into a turnip (swede)
I only recently found your videos and have been going though the back log of them (they are exactly my thing I do not understand how you weren't recommended before!)
When you got to the end of your adorable pumpkin skeleton painting it really made me think of an art material that I really thought you'd enjoy knowing about! That being Rub 'n buff, it's essentially a metallic paint made to put over different materials to make them look like metal, it works really well and would really suit that frame you've used (Of course he is already perfect how he is but I figured it would be a fun thing to know about for other things :))
Love your content!!
Welcome! I'm so glad you found my channel 😄 Oh my gosh this rub n buff looks excellent, I hadn't heard of it before but there are so many things I would use that for. Thanks so much! 🤗
I enjoy your videos so much, keep going :)
we have orange pumpkins in Lithuania 😀
Thank you so much 🥰🥰
See that blows my mind!!! Do you get any other colours or just the orange ones?
@@ashbentley we also have these weirdly shaped beige ones, but they taste the same :D
This was fun...they turned out great
Thanks so much, I had so much fun doing them
Another delightful video. You are so talented. I loved all the artwork and found video highly amusing. Loved it 🥰
Thank you so much 😀
Love the paintings.! I want to try it to. But i don't have the guts yet 😂
You can do it! I believe in you 😊😊
Incredible 🤩
❤️❤️
We get orange and white pumpkins around the holidays
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a white pumpkin before!
Just found you love your humor! I wish I could see but ah, I have a new machine I’m afraid to set up!
But I’m loving your craft videos.
PS: even when foam clay is totally dry water will dissolve it… so you can smooth it with water after a little soaking! 😂
PSS: A little gold dry brush on skelky would be cute! 🥰
Welcome and thank you! I absolutely get the getting a new machine/hobby tool and putting off giving it a try! I have a huge embroidery frame and a whole bunch of wool and knitting needles that I've never used. But sewing is the best! I do hope you give it a try because it's sooo satisfying. And thank you for the tips! ❤
@@ashbentley lol I need a step one out of the box video made for a three year old! 🤣
@@storminight Everyone starts somewhere!
Orange pumpkins are a hybrid. Real pumpkin are either green, burgundy red, blue, cream color, yellow.
Could you paint on the glass of the original painting to make it spooky? Love the spooky painting wall too, genius 👻🎃💀
Oh yes!! Good idea! I'll need to get some better paints, but I think it could work 🥰 and thank you so much!!
You could photocopy the original and paint on that @@ashbentley
It will be nice and relaxing AND YOU WILL ENJOY IT! 😂😂😂❤
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Demanding text printed on a postcard ain't the boss of you, Rick Ross! 😂
YES!!!! 😂😂
you had me on semi-deep google search. was the play called "The Cherry Pickers"? dont get me wrong, i know nothing about it, but it seems closest to what you were describing.
I cant find the review from Umberto Eco tho..
Oh my gosh you prompted me to try look it up again and I found it! It's called Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and apparently it's one of Australia's most famous plays lol. I can't find that Umberto Eco ever said anything about it, so I must have combined two memories from English class there haha. Thank you so much!!
They turned out so great! Your pumpkin friend reminds me of an amazing artist called Zan von Zed. Go check out their channel!
About the pumpkins: I live in New England, an area of North America from which pumpkins are actually native. All those autumnal aesthetics--pumpkin patches, misty morning drives, scarecrows, haunted hayrides, changing leaves--are an actual thing here. Those green pumpkins are probably a specific cultivar of squash that can grow well in your climate. Ours only get picked after the temperature starts to drop. We get every shade from white to yellow to orange to almost red. I must say that I like your green ones! 🎃
As a fellow American (down south) we also have all the spooky season things, including many many orange pumpkins
Thank you so much!! I had NO idea that's where pumpkins were native!! That's so cool!
I think my favourite are the grey-green butternut ones. Easy to cook with and a little bit sweeter 😊
Zan Von zed is also an Aussie!
Pumpkins are orange or white on the outside. The pie pumpkins are always orange on the outside. For context, I live in New Mexico, United States of America.
I haven’t seen white ones here in Australia!
1:36 I think you mean "Killroy was here"?
That looks soooooo similiar! I'm sure someone made it into a plastic picture frame at some point in the 90s.
His name is Bob Ross he was the United States Air Force veteran
#gouachesupremacy
Why did it take me over 30 years to find out that gouache was a thing.
Hey thanks for the video - i really enjoy your presentation style
Thank you for being here! 🥰