Saturday, August 2, 2025

August 2 - Baby Bling Bluey Buddy

"The horror!  The horror!"

~ Kurtz - Apocalypse Now (1979)

The tone is gone now. Or maybe it's everywhere. I don't know anymore.

Everything a shade of that color...

It's not blue. It's not ... anything. I shut my eyes tight but it's ... inside already.

I can't explain it.  I should tell .. I should... No. No, it doesn't matter now.

... Blueyyyyy...

--

In one of Cecilia's classes at Bling Bling Jam she taught a technique/concept for making one-balloon four-leg animals.   .. and for just a few more balloons, you can descend into the warm embrace of Bluey madness.   



(view other Bluey)

Other balloons by and inspired by Cecilia Ladyballoons:



Friday, August 1, 2025

August 1 - Chub Chub Bling Bluey

"It was only a colour out of space - a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes."

~ H.P. Lovecraft - The Colour Out of Space

Did I black out?

No.  I remember going to sleep, despite the whispers growing louder.   

They're gone now, but in their place is a ... a tone I can't describe.  It glows somehow - a sound you don't just hear, you .. see.  Or at least ... can't unsee.

It was JUST a blue dog.

It's out there.  I feel it behind my eyelids.   

I don't open them.

--- 

A "Chub Chub" is a balloon concept from Joe Mock of Balloon Brothers fame, and is a decor-style basic body shape with a bit of a short column stack look, one would imagine is perfect for a tables or tying into most decor really.

Bluey wasn't a design taught at Bling Bling Jam (thankfully?) - I'm just playing with the concept and being a silly goose.  (Honk!)  I tried adapting the faces from both Darren and Sam(my?)s Blueys  - this balloon design has a lot of "play" in how much detail you choose put into accessories, I suppose in this instance the face is an accessory.

(view other Bluey)

Other balloons by and inspired by the Balloon Brothers: