Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 06:32:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Larry Moss <moss@balloonhq.com>
To: Balloon Decorator List <balloondeco@balloonhq.com>
Subject: Balloonicature

On Sat, 11 Nov 2000 Baloonery@aol.com wrote:

> I am very fortunate to live in Upstate New York, where the incredible
> Larry  Moss is available to network with (smile-hi Larry!).  Larry has
> been doing  balloon charactures with Royal Sorell for a while now out of
> the 260's and  other non round balloons which are amazingly realistic. 
> I primarily am a  decorator myself but have learned so much on how to
> incorporate both  nonrounds and rounds into faces for more realism. 
> Larry has a poster out now  which has some of the faces displayed on it,
> and has a cd which will soon be  available too (trying to wait very
> patiently.. :o)  )  This is a fantastic  way to combine twisting with
> other round decor work.  

Gee, with that endorsement, I don't think I can keep my mouth shut.  You
can learn more about the poster Linda is talking about and see a few
samples of faces here:
	http://www.parmapublishing.com/book/BHQPoster.html

The faces pictured there are made from 260s, but they can also be made from
350s to get the scale you're looking for.

The poster has actually been out for about a year now, and the faces have
evolved quite a bit since then.  If you're going to be at the All Star
Revue this week, stop by the BHQ booth and I'll be sure to show off the
newer stuff.  Balloonicature is not one of the classes I'll be teaching at
ASR, but I'll be happy to show things to anyone that asks.  I will be
teaching a balloonicature class at IBAC.  The CD-ROM that Linda mentioned
will be available at ASR.  (It should be available from a few distributors
within a week or so.  Ask your distributor if you'd like to see it.)

> Larry's balloon  eyeballs are especially cool. 

Patrick Brown is actually responsible for the eyeballs Linda is talking
about. An example of the eyes can be seen at:
	http://www.balloonhq.com/mjam00/jams/wallwizard.jpg
It's a bit hard to get the full impact of those eyes from a photo.

For other ideas of faces on large sculptures, take a look at a couple of
the entries in the current BHQ photo contest.  one of them uses distortion.
another uses a decorated round balloon.
	http://www.balloonhq.com/photos/contest And dont' forget to vote on
your favorites while you're there.  Voting will only be going on until the
end of this month.  We don't want this to end like the US presidential
election.  We don't want the vote to be too close to call. Make sure to
cast your vote.

Larry Moss
BalloonHQ.com