Plus some of the designs I will be sharing at the days, weaved Ball, Rose and Vase.

Ooops... just realised I have not updated this.
The Mystery star lecturer is Patrick Van de Ven, we have 30 people booked in at the moment with 5 spaces left if anyone would like to join us?

Booking details, https://balloonartwholesale.co.uk/balloons/workshops/

Some of the designs Patrick will be sharing at the days.

I did some filming Monday night and got four designs in the can... as they say, he he. Then it's editing, but that will
have to wait a week as we are off to two conventions this weekend. Punch-Up on Sunday for the Punch and Judy
festival in Birmingham, then Monday drive up to Stoke for the Trix children's magic convention that is on Tuesday and Wednesday.
I also found a line work Dolphin that we filmed/edited and somehow forgot to post, so that will also be posted sometime soon as well 😁

So it was an interesting experiment, which I enjoyed as was a bit of a challenge.

I decided to alternate the outer rings to hide the fact we could not get the Sun flower smooth.
We also added a slightly larger inner, inner ring so it filled the space better.

We then went to try and make similar to the original picture and went for 12 outer rings and 6 inner for proportions.

6 of the outer rings are held with 6 of the inner rings on one side and then the alternating bubbles on the reverse side.
That's why the outer rings do not sit all square as half are being pulled from either side.

In the original picture it has 11 outer rings and 7 inner rings, that was the first problem and I never even tried to re-create that.
But I did try the 11 outer, for me you'd need proportions, 8/10/12 outer to 4/5/6 inner.

So the outer inner has 11 bubbles the same as the outer ring but the inner inner has 6 bubbles... which throws it off... for me.

The Sun flowers came about as a friend sent me this picture asking how it was made.
After looking at it for a while and then getting the balloons out to try and re-create I think it's AI.
Others have said its not but there is something about it that does not sit right for me...

And so I started to have a play with the latex.

The second picture is too formal with two, two and two all the way down.

I changed the centre section a little.