A couple of weeks ago I played around a bit with carving watermelon faces. I wanted to see how well techniques for carving 3D faces in pumpkins would work for carving faces in watermelon. Here is my result. I was aiming to make friendly looking guy. Because I was using my own face in the […]
It’s been a crazy busy week! One of the highlights is that two days ago I made my first live TV appearance. San Diego Living asked me to come and do a segment on fruit decorating. On Monday, July 3rd i spoke to the segment producer and the very next day, I was on TV. […]
The Competitions Season is here for Food carvers and sculptors, both professional and aspiring! If you enjoy vegetable and fruit carving as a hobby, there’s no better way to challenge yourself than to test out your skills at a few carving competitions. Competitions Push You to Challenge Yourself I know for some people just hearing […]
Today, I’d like to show you a few vegetable bouquets of carved radish flowers that people have made after watching my free radish bouquet video lesson. People who visit my blog are usually impressed by the carvings of fruit flowers or vegetable roses they see and want to know how to make their own edible […]
With Christmas fast approaching, I have an unusual pumpkin carving to share with you. I’ll bet you’ve never seen a baby Jesus in the manger carved from a huge 750 pound pumpkin! That is exactly what Executive Chef and pumpkin carver Jim Morgan carved. It all started with a Pumpkin Carving Class (more…)
I’m preparing to have family over for Thanksgiving dinner later today. I took a minute to check my email and found that Jim Morgan who is an Executive Chef in Pennsylvania sent me this marvelous carving of a turkey carved from pumpkin. I had to take a moment to post this photo so that you […]
At this time of year, you might be looking for some great ideas for Thanksgiving centerpieces. In this article, I’ve compiled some of the ideas for fall and Thanksgiving centerpieces that I have posted in previous years. I hope that these photos and 2 short video ideas give you some inspiration for your own Thanksgiving […]
It’s been a very busy fall this year with introducing Ray Villafane’s 3D Pumpkin Carving Tutorials on DVD and with my carving at the White House. I hope that you had a very Happy Halloween. People Learn how to Carve Expressive Pumpkins in the style of Ray Villafane Lots of my customer/students have been having […]
What a blast! What a memorable experience! I had the honor of carving pumpkins at the White House for the first family’s Halloween trick or treat event. The White House hosted a Halloween party with trick or treating for military families. The trick-or-treating was done on the front portico and drive way of the White […]
I recently posted an article about carved pumpkin lanterns made to celebrate Halloween. In it, I show a bunch of carved pumpkins with movie and cartoon themes. One thing that these carved pumpkin lanterns all have in common is that they use varying thickness of the pumpkin to create varying shades of light and dark. […]
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