Ray Villafane Pumpkins

But this time of year he spends his nights carving and scraping away at orange flesh until something gruesome emer.

Ray villafane pumpkins. You can use these skills at times other than halloween you can still get ray s pumpkin carving tutorial in my shop on this website. Ray villafane an american artist began carving pumpkins seriously in 2007 when the food network contacted him about participating in a pumpkin carving challenge called outrageous pumpkins. See more ideas about pumpkin pumpkin carving ray villafane. Ray saw it as any another piece of clay.

His pumpkin carving career started back at michigan school called bellaire where he used to be an art teacher. Judges terri hardin and ray villafane decide which monster is the life of the pumpkin. As things got worse he was forced to give up using wood to create his toys and eventually had to make them out of pumpkins as the precious wood was needed to heat the small farm house. Last year we showed you some terrifyingly cool carved pumpkins by american sculptor ray villafane and now he s back with some new pumpkin faces.

Ray anthony villafane born march 5 1969 is an american artist based in arizona who specializes in sculpting most famously known for his 3 d style pumpkin carvings villafane also sculpts action figures and collectibles sand and snow. Ray villafane s relationship with pumpkins began rather early in his life. Watch clips and full episodes of outrageous pumpkins from food network. Born in a poor farming family he found himself having to whittle his own toys out of wood as times were very hard for pa villafane.

Up against three other professional pumpkin sculptors ray won every competition and went on to win the grand prize. Once he was asked to help out with halloween decorations at school and given a pumpkin to carve. Sep 20 2019 pumpkin carvings.