Learn Balloon Twisting From Scratch
The ambition of this tutorials series on balloon modelling is to enable a total beginner to engage in this fun activity, and to help him progress rapidly while building a veritable technical and artistic mastery.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch A - Which Balloons To Use?
This question comes up quite regularly in the comments sections of my YouTube channel.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 1 - The Doggy
Balloon modeling is easy!
And the little doggy embodies the very basics of balloon sculpture!
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 2 - The Sword
A real winner with most children, this is another very easy figure to make.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 3 - The Frog
Here is a slightly more complex figure, however, all the techniques used have all been already covered in the doggy and sword tutorials
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 5 - Tux The Penguin
Now here is the tutorial for Tux, the penguin that took the Solutions Linux of Paris by storm in 2012.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 6 - Skill 1: Knots
This is a very basic tutorial about making balloon knots which a number of (early) beginners often find challenging.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 7 - Skill 2: Bubbles
The absolute basic skill for balloon twisting: how to make bubbles.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 8 - Skill 3: How To Curve A Balloon
This is a review of a very simple technique: how to give a curve to a segment of balloon.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 9 - Skill 4: Make Angles With Balloons
We briefly went over this idea of folding balloons recently, during the penguin tutorial, and earlier during the sword tutorial.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 11 - Skill 6: Air Pressure Control
This is probably the most important basic technique that a twister should know and master.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 12 - Skill 7: The Loop
Short video on a very simple technique: the loop.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 13 - Skill 8: Tulip Twist
Here is the last basic technique a beginner should master in the course of this primer series on balloon twisting: the tulip twist.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 14 - The Flower
This is the regular version of the flower done by most ballooners, however regular does not necessarily rimes with easy.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 15 - The Giraffe
Here is another simple model for beginners: the giraffe with only 1 balloon.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 16 - The Love Heart
And here is a great new model for beginners: the love heart.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 17 - The ladybug
Here is one version of the ladybug model that is both very simple... and very popular!
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 18 - The Butterfly
This is a version of the butterfly which I particularly like.
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 21 - The Unicorn and the Horse
It's been such a long time since last time I published, that to make up for it... here is a twin tutorial!!
Balloon Twisting From Scratch 22 - The Lion
As we discovered with the horse sculpture and the unicorn sculpture, some balloon figures have common bases and, in a way, are fraternal twins.
And that... is very practical!