Hi everyone Melanie here from Balloon Artworks and today i've got another really easy balloon
animal for you i'm going to be showing you how to make a balloon fish for your balloon fish
you're going to need a 260. i'm using orange and i've inflated to a tail of approximately
four fingers so this is nice and soft twist a bubble of two to two and a half fingers
and then twist another bubble that is very similar in size bend the two i'll bend the first balloon
over the first bubble over take hold of that knot and nozzle and twist the two bubbles together
okay we're now going to make a pinch twist we're going to pinch twist these two bubbles
and there are different ways to do that but i'm going to show you a very quick and easy
way to do that when the two bubbles are at the start of your balloon so just take hold of that
knot and nozzle pull it through the center of those two bubbles wrap it around
and just let it go there okay so you've got two pinch twisted bubbles so give your balloon
a squeeze send a little bit of air further down the balloon and then we want to make
a bubble that is approximately three to four fingers okay and then sorry three to four inches
and then make another bubble to match okay doesn't have to be exact close is good enough
bend the balloons over and twist those together okay again give your balloon a bit of a squeeze
bend the balloon over we want to make another bubble to match this one again very close in size
okay and then we're going to pass this bubble through the center
of these two bubbles and this is called a roll through okay so just part these bubbles slightly
at the same time as you push that bubble through the center and then just lock
everything together here give your balloon a bit of a squeeze
and next make a loop that is approximately four fingers and then twist that around give your
balloon a bit of a squeeze and make another bubble to match this one okay again close is good enough
wrap those around okay i'm fully inflated here so i want to let some air out but the the balloon is
feeling really quite tight here and there is a good chance if i'm not careful that it will pop
so i need to just twist off a little bit of latex at the end okay i'm going to just snip the end
with my scissors and make a small hole and then very slowly i'm going to let the air out okay
so i just want a little bubble here so i'm now going to tie a knot
in the end here take hold of the the on the end here pull the bubble upwards okay and i'm taking
hold of that knot i'm keeping hold of that and as i twist that bubble around and pinch twist it
twist it round a few times and then i can let go of that knot so this is a great one balloon
animal design for line work but if you've got a bit more time there is something else that you
can do just to enhance this design so take a piece of 260. so we all keep our little bits of scraps
so this is a great use for a 260 white scrap and then twist off a bubble of about two and a
half fingers and then twist off another bubble of a couple of fingers bring the two together
hold on to that knot and nozzle and twist okay and this time i'm going to take the body of the
balloon and wrap that through the center and i'm doing that this way rather than using the knot and
nozzle purely because i've just got a little bit more to play with here snip off the end
and just tie okay so that's what you've got there just part these bubbles and wedge the eyes into
the front of the fish's face okay and then you can just position them
however you want them to look and then take a sharpie pen i really like these brush tip
sharpies because they're really quick to use and i'm just going to draw an eye
okay and do the same thing on the other side so there's your balloon fish
i'll see you again in the next lesson