16th July - Singin' In The Rain

Its Jenny's Birthday today and she is a big musicals fan and a huge fan of Singin' in the Rain (its one of my favourites too), Here is Gene Kelly singin' in the sunshine today. Happy Birthday Jenny xxx

This sculpture is made from 23 balloons, The Lamp post is made from 11 and the rest make up Gene, I started with the lamp post on this model, making the main stem and base first, there is a hidden weighted balloon weighing it all down and then I added all the rings and the lamp at the top, next came Gene, he is similar to my other people models but I shrank him in size a little as I wanted the lamp post to tower over him.

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17th May - Gizmo

Its Film Friday here in balloon land and here is Gizmo, the little Mogwai from the film Gremlins.

He is made from 8 balloons, first I used half a Mocha brown 260 and a whole white 260 for the head with a blush 260 for the nose and mouth. Then I added in the arms with the other half of the brown 260, the body and legs are another white 260 with the feet and hands from a blush 260, I used a 160 for the little wristlets and then another 160 for the ears, Next I used another blush 260 and a black 160 for the eyes. Finally I sat him on an 11" red round balloon.

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9th May - E.T.

Long time ago, in a galaxy far far away . . . . . Oh, no, that is the wrong film, let me start again.  A couple of months ago and not that far away at all I was set a challenge by Keith to make a few sculptures, the first idea he had will take some more thinking but will come up in the near future, the other idea was to make E.T. 

Its taken me so long to get around to making this sculpture, I am such a big fan of E.T. I wanted to get it just right. This sculpture is totally my own design and is made from 15 balloons, the head is mainly made from 260s and the body is mainly made from 350s, the feet and hands are made from 160s and 260s, the only non brown balloons are for the eyes, these are a tiny bit of black 160 and a white 260.

Thanks for the challenge Keith, I shall get around to make the other sculpture very soon, although I am somewhat worried it will open a whole new can of worms as I will be getting requests for all kinds of things from that hexalogy of films (thats a clue).

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