August 29 - Darry Potter

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

~ Professor McGonagall (Sorcerer's Stone)

Gryffindor, if you're brave and noble.

Slytherin, if you're ambitious and cunning.

Ravenclaw, if you're brilliant and studious.

Hufflepuff, if you're into chocolate and big floofy pillows.

... I'm good with my choice. 

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Professor Darren Mortibus taught us these Harry Potter inspired young lads in one of his classes this Bling Bling Jam.   The cartoonish head has a great shape, and I could see this body/jacket style used in a bunch of ways as well.   He didn't draw any faces at the time, but I kind of like the abstract head since it has enough detail.

I was going for "polyjuice'd pig", but now that I look at the images I can't unsee Big Hero 6 flexing.   .. or maybe I just don't want to unsee.

(view other Harry Potter balloons)

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Other balloons by and inspired by Darren Mortiboy:

February 19 - Book Fair 2018

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."

~ Orson Welles

I enjoyed a little time off since the last post and did some thinking about the state of this blog.

I have a number of big plans for how I want things to evolve this year, but without the ever-present engine of a daily entry, I'm finding it difficult to feel like things are "good enough" to post about.  The goal was to force evolution and progression by removing what were considered obstacles, but I've gone to prove today's quote true.

So in an effort to get past the idea that this is supposed to be something more than it is, I'm going to still keep focused on the big plans - but not to the exclusion of all else.

This year's book fair was right around the time of the Oscars, so they asked for a couple Oscar columns, but with the available space we just went with the one.   I love working with these chrome balloons, last month this column would not have looked as nice.   I would have liked to get a better taper towards the top, but this was my prototype and everything was measured precisely by eyeball on site ...