When Danny Kissel first saw the “Outrageous Pumpkins” program on Food Network back in 2008, he didn’t know much about how to carve gourds. “I airbrushed before that, I did portrait drawings. Everything that was basically a flat surface,” Kissel said. “Sculpture was something new to me. So when I saw what they were doing with pumpkins, I decided to go out and buy some for the family to carve, like I normally did, and then buy some for myself to try to learn how this was done.”