Are you a pumpkin Picasso? A gourd Gaugin? If you love creating your carved or painted jack-o’-lantern every Halloween, a contest now underway, sponsored by the Pennsylvania agriculture department, ...

It’s a good idea to do some background reading on preparing gourd surfaces for decoration before you start.

A painted gourd by Li Wenxing from Rizhao city in Shandong province on July 7, 2018. [Photo/IC] Gourd has a similar pronunciation as the Chinese word fulu, which means "happiness", and is regarded as ...

Niu Chengguo's creations of fire-painted bottle gourd.[Photo provided to China Daily] Niu Chengguo has carried a flame for the craft of gourd pyrography since childhood and is trying to help the ...