| Dog face
By Hans Siemons |
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I am running out of ideas on alternative peaces of latex to twist with. I tried twisting latex hot water bags but that was not the best idea of the year 😉 Condoms you can use as extra wide 350’s and stuff mini sculptures inside them.So this month a normal sculpture, a mask that covers the face. It can be changed into a lot of animals by changing the ears and mouth.So here comes a Woof woof. A doggy, who in the balloon world hasn’t made a doggy. This mask will turn your audience into a dog! Pointing the ears upwards and replacing the mouth with an 11″ heart will change it into a cow mask. Comments, as usual are more then welcome at hans@balloonhq.com |
| Balloons needed : | 1 260Q white; 1 260Q onyx black; 2 350Q coconut brown; 1 350Q white; 1 350Q diamond clear; 1 350Q ruby red; 1 160Q ruby red. |
| Make 2 balls from the 260Q black as pupils for the dog eyes. |
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| Inflate the diamond clear 350Q from the end. |  |
| Insert the 2 balls. |  |
| Like this. |  |
| Pop outter bubble. |  |
| Inflate diamond clear 350Q again, make 2 bubbles, each containing one ball, and tie bubbles together. |
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| Inflate the white 260Q leaving a short tail. Make a pinch twist at the knot end. |
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| Loop it to fit around a persons head. If you make it fairly large and squeeze the back together it will be an “one size fits all” hat. |
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| Push the pinch twist between the top of the eyes. |  |
| Make a small loop from the ruby red 160Q. |  |
| Inflate the ruby red 350Q from the back a little longer then the 160Q loop. |
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| Push the loop inside the 350Q. |  |
| Like this. |  |
| Pop outter bubble from 350Q. |
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| What you have now is a little wrinkled. Inflate 350Q again. |
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| Get the 160Q loop inside the 350Q “free”, and carefully deflate 350Q again, so the 350Q does not look wrinkled anymore. |
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| You can see here it’s now become a flat shaped balloon. This will be the tongue. |
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| Inflate 350Q leaving a tail like this. |  |
| Tie white and the tongue you made together. |  |
| Insert between the bottem of the eyes. |  |
| Make 2 large bubbles to form the top of the mouth. |  |
| And lock together. |  |
| Add 2 pinch twists as the back. |  |
| Followed by a small bubble, a loop twist, and another small bubble. |
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| Make a large stand alone hooktwist from coconut brown 350Q. I use a balloon straw to be able to do this fast and easy. |
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| Repeat this with the 2nd coconut brown 350Q. |  |
| Lock them together. |  |
| And deflate and cut of the remainder. |  |
| From the tail of one of the 350Q make a bubble to form the nose. |
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| Insert the 2 stand alone hooktwists at the top of the eyes. |
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| Tie the nose the front. |  |
| And there you have a dogface! |  |