My Other Obsession: Balloon Art to Blow Your Mind

Wow, that's pretty impressive. I thought your avatar might be balloon art, so I enlarged it to check. Now you have a new project to work on.

Good point. It's time to update it.

All of the above. I started one day with a basic bok of the 10 easiest one balloon animals. I wanted to do more. I am a member of a magician's site where I hooked up with better artists, and that led me to the people who make the best DVDs, and then actual conventions. Clubs are few and far between, more like jam sessions for twisters.

Hah! Nice job.

Is 'Missing Baby' a reference to the breastfeeding by the childless Lady Macbeth?

That's a deep cut, but no, my attempt at "obscure Shakespeare reference" was Love's Labor's Lost.

What's really funny, is that now everyone that saw Wedding Crashers makes the same joke "make me a bicycle clown!" Actually, look at a bike, and look at our 2 inch long tube balloons. Making a bike is about as easy as it gets. I plan to do a fully tricked out tri bike soon.

Ahh, very good!

Sadly no. It's not a major play. I only knew it from being in it in college.

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How do you make the flower? That isn't even in the shape of a balloon. Mind blasting!

That was uninflated. The owl, the desk set and the flower, the ants at a picnic, those were all a new sub-genre, uninflated.

One of my favorite parts of the jam room was having other people teach my daughter to blow up and tie her own balloons, which will speed up our working together for groups of lots of kids. Now my 7 year old son can tie off balloons too.

So... time..... yeah, everything I posted was a competition piece, meaning many many hours. I don't know if the big bird costume made it into my gallery, but Glen said he put about 20 hours into it. The first place Aladdin and Genie with the distorted face and body methods, that guy worked probably more than 24 hours on the piece. He has some secret methodology not many know about.

My thrown together minion costumes were a few hours. My scarf for Gru was under 3 hours. Actually probably under 90 minutes if I focus.

I have no idea how many hours go into the uninflated pieces. I never get to watch them work. Those folks don't work on them in the jam room.

The zombie is a blend of uninflated and inflated. That artist put most of a day into the tiny details of that thing. She's in med school.

I'm working on a motorcycle I learned from a guy there. I hope to be able to do it in under 2 hours, but my first build will probably take four.

Just for the record - the gallery stuff is almost all other people's work. I'm learning from some of them. The small minions and gru, that's me and my kids. The current profile pic of tiny hat with rabbit, I did make that.

My personal gallery which is woefully outdated and needs new material, is at airweaver.balloonhq.com - I'll be adding a lot over the next couple weeks.

Very interesting and different! Thanks for sharing! 

And Lady Gaga NEEDS one of those balloon dresses! 

 

Edited by KSH 2014-02-19 1:25 PM