Time Lapse carve of a realistic portrait of Michael Keaton as Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice on a Fun-kin foam pumpkin using a dremel. This carve took about 7 hours and was completed over the course of 3 days. This was filmed using the time lapse function on my iPhone 7 plus and then edited in iMovie where I increased the speed to x2.

This music video was a collaboration with my good friend Jessica Heackel, Ryan Sellick, and myself. I helped film a lot of the video (all of the close up shots and non-aerial footage), helped set things on fire, and assited with consulting. 

This is a reaction video I made of myself getting EnChroma Glasses and checking out some of my paintings in color for the first time. I have moderate to strong Protanopia. These fancy glasses help me fix it a bunch. 

Everything you need to know about customer service is right here. New video work from 2016

Made in 2008, a different take on the genre of Film Noir by using the standard elements of the genre and artistically heightening them to new levels. Featuring the music of nine inch nails: GHOSTS I-IV. This was first uploaded to YouTube prior to the site allowing videos longer than 10 minutes so for quality retention I split the film into 3 sections. You can find a direct link to Vol.2 here, and Vol.3 here.  

This was a video art project I competed in 2005. A goth and Industrial take on the format of the morning talk show. Full of terrible humor and black puns that will make you a worse person for watching it. May it dampen your spirit. 

A video project I made in 2007. This short was an project I had for a typography class. The assignment was to use any media to make an example of moving/animated type. I chose video.

A time lapse instructional video on how to carve a portrait of Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter onto a pumpkin for Halloween... and yes, I did make the stencil.

A digital video project I made in 2007. An experiment in abstract and melodic piece combining cropped and overlaying imagery and remixed with music from Team Sleep and Dido.

A video project I made in 2007. This was an experiment in sound editing using solely clips from filmed video. In this video I recreate the auditory sensation of working at a movie theater.

Posted on Feb 4, 2024. I was invited to be a guest on the horror supernatural horror and comedy podcast Haunts, Graves, & Omens

“This week: We have a special guest in the studio with us! The pumpkin and spooky man himself, Joey Edwards. With him being here with us, we are presented with the perfect time to talk about the most haunted places in the silver state of Nevada. Mining accidents, fires, an the mafia.”

Posted on 1/07/2023, DesignStack wrote:

“Out of season pumpkin drawings and carvings.

American Artist Joey Edwards (Edwards Pumpkins) has this to say about his work: "I make weird and wonderful things. Wire sculpture, hyper realistic carved pumpkin portraits, painting and more." And: "When I was a kid I would make many of my own toys out of wire, clay, and tinfoil. Anything I wanted to play with was limited only by my own imagination."

Posted in November 2022, Bored Panda posted a very thoughtful write up on, by Hidrėlėy, and shared a TON of my work!

“Joey Edwards, also known as Edwards Pumpkins, is a Portland-based artist who focuses on painting lifelike portraits on intriguing canvases. Edwards displays his talent by carving beautiful representations of various fictional characters and well-known figures out of pumpkins.

He manipulates the lighting to make it appear as though viewers are viewing a 3D portrait while carving the details into the pumpkins with rotary blades and drill bits. The artist can work from photographs or creative compositions and accepts commissions…”

Published: Oct. 18, 2022 at 9:59 AM PDT on KPTV by Ayo Elise. The link to the original article and it’s video interview segment can be found here.

Sometime the best coverage is the ones you didn’t even know about! I just discovered this very kind piece posted on Spooky Daily written by Sodiumnami about my pumpkin carving.

“Now, this is scarily good!

Meet Joey Edwards AKA Edwards Pumpkins, a Portland-based artist that specializes in creating realistic portraits on a very interesting canvas. True to his chosen moniker, he uses foam pumpkins to showcase his talent for creating stunning portraits of different fictional characters and famous celebrities.

Edwards uses knives and rotary bits to carve the details into the pumpkins and plays with the lighting to make it seem like viewers are looking at a 3D portrait. The artist accepts commissions and can create masterpieces based on photos or original compositions… “

Thanks Spooky Daily!

Archival copy of my Interview with DeviantArt originally posted to their TikTok on 10/26/2022. That original post can be found here.

This is my April 29th 2021 guest appearance on Carvers & Creators – Episode 40. This is an archival copy for my own records. The original video can be found here.

“In this episode, I talk with my good friend Joey Edwards. Joey is an incredible artist who makes weird and wonderful things. In this episode, we talk about how Covid-19 affected both his day job in IT and his artistic career. We also talk about his custom-built PC and his Twitch channel. “

This Interview was released on 02/22/2021

On July 21st 2020 I had the pleasure of being interviewed on the Forging Flame Podcast!
”This episode of Forging Flame features Joey Edwards—maker of weird and wonderful things! From wire sculptures to award winning photo-realistic pumpkin carvings, to paintings and mixed media visual art—Joey’s work exudes his affinity for all things spooky and dark, but with a refreshing air of absolute delight and joy. Think Tim Burton meets Jim Carrey.”

Follow the link above for more details!

07/14/2019 This mini documentary introducing my art work and background was made by my good friends Josh and Joe Gray over at Fractal Focus Video + Photography whom are based in Portland Oregon. I speak about my earlier influences and my current series CRYPTODERMIA, a collection of dark surrealist wire sculpture fantasy taxidermy.

05/22/2019 My Show CRYPTODERMIA II at Horsehead in Downtown Eugene was featured in the local news paper the Register Guard.

This is a portion of a project for the University of Oregon about funding for the arts that I was interviewed for by student journalist Emily Cline. The video features me talking about working as a colorblind artist, my process, and carving pumpkins. The full story can be found here.

10/26/17 A feature story about my use of reusable craft foam pumpkins, and my PORTRAIT PUMPKINS III art show in downtown Eugene Oregon. *Update 5/24/18* Original story relocated without video to here. but a copy of the video can be seen on my Instagram account here

06/16/2017 "'It blew my mind!' Special glasses allow artist to see true color for the first time" Feature interview story about working as an artist with colorblindness and my experience with EnChroma glasses. My show of paintings at the Horsehead and my recent video "Colorblind" are also featured.

10/31/2016: I was invited onto the TV show Graveyard Carz for a little pumpkin carving hi-jinx. This bit is currently available as a web extra, but will possibly be featured in their current season finale. You can watch the clip here.

***The original video has since been taken down. I have reposted the video here. ***

10/27/16: For the second straight year I won the Eugene Weekly pumpkin carving contest.

They were also nice enough to say some kind words on their site for me.   

Portrait Pumpkins write up featured as lead article in Arts section of Register Guard. Additionally, a photo preview of the piece made the front page of the whole paper! You can find that article here. 

2015 Local periodical The Eugene Weekly cover contest winner coverage

This was a pumpkin carving contest I entered where the winner would be featured on the cover of the publication. Although this was unrelated to the Portrait Pumpkin art show up at the same time they did mention my show in the featured article. 

2015 local news station KEZI coverage of PORTRAIT PUMPKINS art show and live demo. *Unfortunately the video and for this has been taken down by KEZI. The storage of the internet is not infinite. That said, I’m using this loss as a reminder to back up and save my media experiences! See below for the text of the article.