Kayla Harren Illustrator

My dad grew all these weird and beautiful little pumpkins and gourds in his garden.

It’s wild to be in my studio with the door and windows open in the middle of October in Minnesota on this nearly 90 degree day.🥵😬 Hot dog!

This lil’ gourd was calling to me. It needed to be turned into a lil’ guy.

Let’s look more closely at these colorful pumpkins. This is how they grew! I didn’t paint them at all. I swear they came out of the ground just like this!😲😍

I love how this one looks like a flower.

Happy lil’ guy surrounded by his lil’ punkin pals.