Leigh Henderson 10/24/22 Leigh Henderson 10/24/22

Outrageous Pumpkins

Good news - I’m back on Food Network! This time, I’m carving pumpkins on Outrageous Pumpkins!

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Creepy Clown Pumpkin

I carved this pumpkins for an interview on local television, as a way of demonstrating how to use other fruits and vegetables in a pumpkin carve.

Leigh Henderson 10/3/21 Leigh Henderson 10/3/21

Bat Pumpkin

I had some challenges with carving the wings because the inside of the pumpkin was very stringy, but I’m extremely pleased with the stem for the nose.

Leigh Henderson 10/3/21 Leigh Henderson 10/3/21

Spider Pumpkin

This is my first multi-pumpkin carve.

Leigh Henderson 10/2/21 Leigh Henderson 10/2/21

Jellyfish Pumpkin

I thought it would be fun to carve a jellyfish pumpkin using the goop inside the pumpkin. I was hoping for a little more goop, honestly, but I still think it’s pretty fun.

Leigh Henderson 10/2/21 Leigh Henderson 10/2/21

Clown Pumpkin

I got some new carving tools and wanted to try them out. Once I had carved it, I thought it needed some painted on clown makeup.

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D20 Pumpkin

We're all about Dungeons and Dragons around here these days and I didn't have much time for pumpkin carving this year, so here's my quick D20 pumpkin.

Leigh Henderson 10/31/16 Leigh Henderson 10/31/16

Lord Voldemort Pumpkin

I wanted to practice my 3-d pumpkin sculpting, so I made this little Lord Volde-pumpkin.

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Sculpted Face Pumpkin

I took a pumpkin carving class from Shawn Feeney, the winning pumpkin carver of Halloween Wars Season 1.

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Axe Cop Pumpkin

Wexter and Axe Cop are off to fight bad guys on the moon.

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Banshee Pumpkin

To match the Banshee Cake, here’s my Banshee Pumpkin.

Leigh Henderson 10/29/10 Leigh Henderson 10/29/10

Mater and the Ghostlight Pumpkin

I was looking for things to carve into a pumpkin that my niece would appreciate. So naturally I turned to Mater’s Tall Tales for inspiration.

Leigh Henderson 10/31/08 Leigh Henderson 10/31/08

Raven Pumpkin

In my 11th consecutive year of entering the Pumpkinmasters carving contest, this is the pumpkin that finally won me the Grand Prize! Inspired by the ravens at the Tower of London, I think it represented my most effective use of textures to date.

Leigh Henderson 10/31/08 Leigh Henderson 10/31/08

Edgar Allan Poe Pumpkin

"Faces" is the only Pumkinmasters category in which I have never won a prize. This pumpkin was my latest unsuccessful attempt to rectify that situation.

Leigh Henderson 10/31/07 Leigh Henderson 10/31/07

Owl Pumpkin

I only carved one pumpkin this year (but I still won the Pumpkinmasters "Animals" category! Woohoo!) I created the pattern by tracing over a photo of an owl.

Leigh Henderson 10/31/06 Leigh Henderson 10/31/06

Musical Pumpkin

Every now and then I try to go in an uncharacteristic direction with a simple, yet compelling design. Simple isn't really my strong suit, so they're generally not all that good. This one is no exception.

Leigh Henderson 10/31/06 Leigh Henderson 10/31/06

Howling Wolves Pumpkin

Generally, I'm not a big fan of the pumpkins that define an object by silhouetting it against the moon. I think it's overdone and simplistic enough that it usually indicates a poor command of the medium. But I did it anyway.

Leigh Henderson 10/31/06 Leigh Henderson 10/31/06

Danse Macabre Pumpkin

I actually bought the sheet music to Dance Macabre in the interests of verisimilitude. Unfortunately, the first several measures (which is about all I could fit on a pumpkin) are really quite boring.

Leigh Henderson 10/31/06 Leigh Henderson 10/31/06

Carnival of Horrors Pumpkin

This is my second attempt to create a circus-based pumpkin. I was trying to create a dynamic composition, juxtaposing the undulating curve of the roller coaster with the self-contained unity of the circular, be-skulled ferris wheel. It didn't really work, though.

Leigh Henderson 10/31/05 Leigh Henderson 10/31/05

Epitaphs Pumpkin

I didn't come up with the epitaphs. I copied them off the internet. I think I expended too much effort of the legibility of the text and not enough on the atmosphere of the graveyard.