May 27 - Owl

Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road
~ Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

This owl is the last design in Eric Weinstein's Live Balloon's Volume 6.  This Birds and Beaks pdf was a nice initial foray in to world of distortion.  Each is a simple self-contained wrapper around a structure - and are a relatively low "weird" balloon commitment, a few beak colored 646s.   I can't wait ... and I'm terrified to reach Volume #8!

This design in particular hearkens back to that classic Weinstein chubby-cheek style, it's probably the easiest/cheapest of the beak distortions in the set, so I'm not sure why it's included last in the book.  Eric draws on feathers, but I'm not sure I like the look of a fully scribbled on balloon or that it's necessary.  I improvised on the feet a little, but I was able to get them to stand on their own fairly easily.

Seriously, what is Hu's last name?	We are the original angry birds!
I believe it's called irritable owl syndrome

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Other posts with Eric's designs:

• October 19 - Eric's Pumpkin
• October 3 - Eric's Alligators
• October 2 - Eric's Trolls
• August 30 - Eric's Mario
• May 28 - Cupid
• April 30 - Mordecai
• April 29 - Ostrich
• April 28 - Peacock
• April 27 - Sneetches
• April 26 - Sweet Cheeks Pig
• April 25 - Sweet Big Cats
• April 22 - Skunk
• April 21 - Ursula (Sweet Chicks #2)
• April 20 - Sweet Cheeks Fish
• April 19 - Sweet Cheeks Fox
• April 18 - Sweet Cheeks Hermit Crab
• April 17 - Sweet Cheek Husky
• December 29 - Celebrity Faces
• December 28 - Baseball Face
• December 27 - Redneck Face
• December 26 - Jack's Face
• September 27 - Sweet Beaver
• September 24 - Sweet Lion
• September 22 - Sweet Bunny
• September 15 - Sweet Angry Bird

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