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| When you think of 'balloon art,' you probably think of a birthday-party clown twisting rubber into things that are supposed to be Schnausers and giraffes but end up looking like, mostly, balloons. |
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| In truth, though, balloon art can be so much more. Check out these selections by Larry Moss and Kelly Cheatle of Airigami. |
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| They've managed to recreate everything from Vermeer's 'Girl with a |
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| Balloon modeling or balloon twisting is the shaping of special modeling balloons into almost any given shape, often a balloon animal. |
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| People who create
balloon animals and other twisted balloon sculptures are called Twisters, Balloon Benders and Balloon Artists. |
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| Two
of the primary design styles are "single balloon modeling", which restricts itself to the use of one balloon per model, and "multiple balloon modeling", which uses more than one balloon. |
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| Each
style has its own set of challenges and skills, but few twisters who have reached an intermediate or advanced skill level limit themselves to one style or another. |
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| Depending
on the needs of the moment, they might easily move between the one-balloon or multiple approaches, or they might even incorporate additional techniques such as "weaving" and "stuffing". |
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| The
balloons for twisting are too porous for helium and the designs are generally too heavy for their size for helium to lift. Source by www.yahoo.com |