I love to play with balloons. It is incredibly rewarding to succesfully create a scupture that not only lights up a child's eyes but also truly resembles the animal or object they asked you to produce.

I have always tried to take on the challenge of creating whatever I am asked to produce even if I have never attempted it before. Occasionally I have had to steer a child down a different route but many of my favourite creations have been done for the first time right in front of my audience.

I suppose that I go about coming up with new sculptures the hard way. I don't own very many books and I don't often study the creations of others but it is for these reasons I try not to claim to be the inventor of the sculptures that I do. I do however try to put my own touch into everything that I do, especially if I am repeating a sculpture that I know others do.

Anyway below you will find some sculptures that are either favorites of mine or new things I am working on and just want to show off.

Ballerina

For several years I was making a much simpler version of this balloon but then I decided to add hair.
When I made a sample of this balloon at home and showed it to my eldest son he pointed out that she looked topless, so I rearranged the tutu a little and this is the result.

Isn't she pretty?

T-Rex

This guy came as a result of trying to teach somebody else twisting methods.

I was demonstrating ear twists and roll throughs and suddenly had a vision of a T-Rex which was far more detailed than what I had been making up until then.

Yellow Duck

This sculpture is a variation on a parody sculpture of Daffy Duck.


Motorcycle

Not my own invention but one of my favorites.


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