As I have been making the Roses lately I then thought we should perhaps incorporate them into a design.

The Roses thread is here if you'd like to see how they evolved,
https://www.balloonchat.co.uk/balloon-chit-chat/roses-11791/

I started off making a guy design and changed it about a little, the first one he is top heavy and too chunky.
I prefer the jacket on the taller one but his arms are too short so will make a little longer next time 

I have been having a tidy up of my balloon photo collection and taking a look at some
designs we would like to have a go at for the challenge thread for this year.

We are back to our old friend, Masayoshi Matsumoto for the Poodle design,
his Instagram page is, https://www.instagram.com/isopresso_balloon/
and on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/masayoshi.matsumoto.5

I sent the Poodle to Danielle this afternoon and we both agreed we liked the design and would like to attempt to re-create it 

This is the thread to look at the challenge for 2020, https://www.balloonchat.co.uk/balloon-chit-chat/challenge-2020/

This is the thread to look at the challenge for 2019, https://balloonchat.co.uk/balloon-chit-chat/challenge/

We were discussing Roses the other day and I mentioned I don't really have a go to Rose that I use.
So there was the next day and a half making Roses, ended up with over 15 variations on a theme.
Some had potential and some went straight to the bin 

As I made so many I'm not sure in what order they were made to get to the final design.

I have gone with the Jet as the model of the month. I first made the design way back in December 2016.
Not sue how its missed out this long on being model of the month.
I might have tweaked it a little since then but looking back at the pictures it looks very similar.

If anyone would like to help out then we have started up the "Buy Me A Coffee"
page where you can buy a coffee or two or even more if you would like.
It will all help to keep the forum running....Thanks XXxx

This is the link, https://www.buymeacoffee.com/myballoonart
at the moment 14 people have kindly donated which is appreciated.

I keep changing the size of the wings, these ones here are 9 and 6 finger bubbles.
I will post some pictures at the end where they are 12 and 6 and then 8 and 5.
You have to choose the look you prefer.

I was thinking what would we have as Model of the Month for January and a Train came to mind.
So trying to make a simple'ish line work train that some might use.

This is how the trains came about.

Sally sent me a picture of the star so we made it in 160, 260 and 350.
The 160 and 260 were both made in Red so you have to look closely.

I made a Santa head design that would fit OK on a candy cup.

It was Zakh my grandsons 14th birthday in the week and he is heavily into skateboarding, it used to be scootering
but he changed a little while back and goes skating for a couple of hours every day.

So I was asked to make a design of Zakh himself and this is what I came up with.
Version one was a little on the small size so we tried a larger looking face but
decided on keeping with the smaller design and adding to it.

The body was a little to long to leg ratio so we changed this in pictures to come.