There are a lot of creative Jack-O-Lanterns around Halloween, but this year Ray Villafane takes the cake!
Taking oddly shaped pumpkins of all sizes, Villafane discovered his talent for carving out intricate, creepy and gorey characters by accidentally when he worked as an art teacher. He’s since quit teaching to become a professional sculptor and landed himself a job making wax prototypes of action figures for DC Comics. He’s also competed on and won the Food Network’s OUTRAGEOUS PUMPKIN CHALLENGE two different times!
Pumpkin carving remains his favourite fall-time hobby, though and he has come to be known as the “Michelangelo of pumpkin carvers.”
This year Villafane and his team surprised and titillated visitors to the New York Botanical Gardens with a life-size zombie carved from an over sized pumpkin. This zombie pumpkin along with other, smaller, zombie pumpkins are all on display at the Botanical Gardens until Halloween.
Check out some of Ray’s other amazing pumpkin creations below:
You can check out the full collection of Ray’s spectacular pumpkin characters here!