The Great Pumpkin King

My DeWitt classes are busy trying to prepare a pumpkin for Fall Fest. I selected a fairly large oval shaped pumpkin to let them create something unique and representative of the class. Originally only my Illustration class was going to create the pumpkin, but after the pumpkin went through many persona's it was decided that the Computer Graphics class could also participate.

Some of the persona's that this Pumpkin went through were: Grim Reaper Pumpkin, (looked like a big orange handgranade) Count Pumpkin Vampire, The Crate Pumpkin,(didn't really fit in the crate) and of course the Amish Vampiric Pufferfish Pumpkin (oh that Pufferfish is legendary). They settled on the Great Pumpkin God (presumably of Art) and then made it a Great Pumpkin King. Since they were not going to cut the pumpkin, but paint it, then they had to decide what kind of face this GPK would have. I had my Art History book with me and we looked at the old south pacific type gods and because at this time the Pumpkin was sitting on top of a pillar with a Hawaiian straw hat on and looked like Jimmy Buffet who had been stung by a pufferfish.
This somehow translated into a Tiki type god, and it needed minions to worship it. So many little pumpkins would be sitting at the bottom in veneration of the GPK, but we didn't have many little pumpkins, but we did have pears. Well since we didn't like the pears we let them be the enemy and gave the decoration of the pears to the Computer Graphics class. They would create masks for the pears to wear on the computer and carry little toothpick spears to fight the little pumpkins and overthrow the GPK.
Our legend was complete and I wrote the following for our GPK:
Every year at Harvest time the little known group call the Illustnation elect a new Great Pumpkin King. They enshrine the king and do battle with the Compuartis rivals. Who will win this years battle and will precious juice and pulp be spilled in honor of GPK?
After all this creative thought was complete it was on to painting the GPK. They used bits and pieces of every ones individual designs and everyone took a turn at adding their particular style to the GPK. We lost the hat and did straw and feathers and curly cue pipe cleaners for his headdress. The computer class found awesome pictures to use for their masks and altered them appropriately to be used on their pears.
When the scene is complete we will have pears and pumpkins fighting each other below the GPK in all his splendor. Pictures will be coming then~