I am thinking about balloon twisting.

koolkatkiwi wrote:I love your new avatar, Suzy. It rocks!

Kat

I too the lovely lady bug.

*Emily

Me too! The ladybug is adorable!

SuzySparkles wrote:okay i placed my first order!! I just got a little red pump and a bag of 100 balloons... we shall see where this takes me!!! I also ordered the metallic powder and a button that says "Yes, I really do this for a living" HA!!

I LOVE their buttons! I also have one that says Tipping isn't a city in China... and one that says my art studio's motto: Normal is boring.

Love LaRocks!

Personally, I am a big fan of Qualitex. I like the feel of their balloons better, and I've never had a problem with them. But I do have to respectfully disagree that there is no 'wow' factor in single balloons. Any balloon can have a 'wow' factor, it is simply how you make the balloon. I actually find it much more amazing when an artist pulls off an impossible sculpture using only one balloon and leave everyone standing there scratching their heads thinking "how in the heck did they do that?!" I do a t-rex with one balloon that people are crazy over. Sure, anyone can do a dog, but when the artist goes beyond that in making single balloon sculptures, I find that to be just about as amazing and 'wowing' as a multiple balloon scupture.

I've got a pretty cool one balloon motorcycle too.... when the pop twist works right LOL

My 15 yr old can do the 1 balloon motorcycle(not me... it pops every time or I run out of balloon).
Punky, will you post a pic of your dino? We do a 2 balloon dino.

sure! this one I came up with on my own several years ago and took to competition in 2007 and won 1st place with in the MCA single balloon comp.

Are you twisting ALL of your bubbles in the same direction? That is KEY. For example, when I twist, I hold the balloons steady in my left hand (I am right handed) and twist with my right, and I ALWAYS twist the balloon away from me directionally. If I were (for example) to twist the balloon away form me first, then on the next twist twist towards me, then I end up with a candy wrapper effect and it will come undone. This take practice, but soon, it will become natural. OH! and never let go of the front of the sculpture until you have twisted the series of bubbles to be twisted. I'm sure there are plenty of youTube vids to show you this.

Have you watched some videos online? try www.balloon-animals.com and do some of the one balloon things along with the video.

The t-rex is cool! I think it looks a little like Alien too!

I can do a one balloon guitar... that plays!! My only really cool balloon. It ALWAYS impressed the kids.

I only knew/know how to do about 10 things (sword, worm, snake, dog - which was also any 4-legged animal requested!, horse with bubble mane, swan, 2 balloon flower, guitar, wings, and hats of assorted styles)

I don't do balloons at all - and I only did them on an "if time permits" basis for my birthday package which meant usually NOT!!

I presume you mean moving the bubble to the end of the tail? Try twisting off the portion you want to move to the end and just squeezing that bubble hard, it'll go. A large percentage of my one and two balloon sculptures come from that site. Once you get the main ones down, you'll be able to start figuring out things on your own and eventually you can make almost everything they ask you for.... and if they ask for something you don't even want to attempt, you say, "Sure! As long as it's ok if it looks like a poodle!"