August 4 - Vanity Smurf

"There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it."

~ Mark Twain

"Well. At least you're a nice shade of blue today. That's something."

"Look if I'm going to be in one of your silly pictures, you can't just stand there."

"Did you just oink at me?!"

"Stop squinting."

“... Okay, say 'SMURF!'"

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Again playing around with Shana Sm...errr Sharp's Smurf wand with body. I loved Vanity Smurf too much not to give him some special love.  
(view other Smurf)

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Other balloons by and inspired by Shana Sharp:

July 30 - Bling Bling Bluey

"Mom!  Dad!   Bingo!  Bluey!"

~ Bluey Theme Tune

Sometimes I make balloon art and get to investigate fun things, like fairy shrimp or axolotl.

Bluey.  Is a blue dog.

How much deeper do I really need to investigate?  I see some cutesy "booboo knee owie" kind of growing up stuff.

Certainly 45 seconds should be plenty of time to get an opinion.


Grouchy Smurf?  He's just upset when he heard this post was about "Bluey" and it wasn't him.  That was his nickname back in 'Nam.

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Bling Bling Bluey was one taught by Sam DS (@twistinsam) at Bling Bling Jam this year.   I simplified the body somewhat when trying to recover from some unfortunate pops that I don't *want* to blame on old stock ... but I can practically smell the dark blue balloon still when looking at the class picture.

I also was still playing around with Shana's Smurf wands, seemed appropriate here.

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Other balloons by and inspired by Bling Bling Jam:

July 29 - Smurf Wands

"My revenge will be terrible! You'll see! You'll see!"

~ Gargamel - The Smurfs (1981)

According to one story, they are the echoes of abandoned and unwanted children left to freeze in the woods. The white hats and pants? It's snow.

Frozen ghosts wandering the trees, pale blue, luring other children with a faint, eerie, "la la la la la laaaaaaa.."

I mean ... I haven't seen the latest movie, so I don't know which direction they're going to go with it.

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These Smurf heads were something Shana Sharp recently smurfed in a in a video, quick smurfwork, her designs are always the smurfiest practice smurfing.

I smurfed a few different smurfs, just smurfing around .. and then I sm... .. and then I *created* a Shana Smurf.  

(view other Smurf)

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Other balloons by and inspired by Shana Sharp:

April 2 - Smurfs

La la la-la la la,
Sing a happy song.
La la la-la la la,
Smurf it all day long

~ The Smurfs Theme Song

These Smurfs were not in Patrick Van de Ven's PDF, but with the new movie coming out later this week they were examples he posted of some other things you could build using his Little Guy technique.

He posted a normal Smurf and then Smurfette, and since all Smurf are only minor variations of the basic Smurf I decided to work out how to build Papa Smurf using his technique. I tried a few attempts at giving him legs, but in the end it looked much better adopting a similar style.

I think the form smurfs great without pants,  but now that I've built Papa, I might smurf the basic Smurf with pants...

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Other Little Guys:


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