Welcome to Al's Balloon Gallery
Over the past year Al collected a few photos of his work, or is it play? You can click on the photo for a slightly larger image or click on the download icon on the right for the full size image. We hope you enjoy these as much as Al enjoyed creating them.
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Al was trying to put together a few pictures of simple
twisted animals for this web-site. He never got past the
first couple of them. Al can do dozzens of different
animals, but he never got around to photographing them all.
Anyway, here is a Giraffe! |
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Here's a nice camel |
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This is either a dog or a squirrel? Really this is the basic four-legged figure. With minor teaks it might be a fox or a horse with various sizes of neck, tail, body and legs. So much of balloon art is in the eyes of the beholder. This is the kind of figure where Al might ask the child "What is this?" and as soon as they gave an answer He'd say "Exactly Right!". |
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The Love Monkey! This was the first of Love Monkey that Al ever made back in Feb 07. The customer wanted several twisted monkeys instead of Al's standard V-Day teddy bears. After twisting it up Al added the tulip and a new Al's Balloons Valentine classic was born. |
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This was a bouquet that Al put together for a friend of the family. Al's Friend's wife had been traveling and while she was out Al's friend and the kids had replaced their backyard bird feeder. Al's friend wanted a bouquet to brighten the house for her return. The bird feeder suggested a theme and after thinking a bit this was the bouquet that Al created. It has two foil stars and three perlized latex balloons in matching colors. There are two hummingbirds flying halfway down the bouquet. The cost on this bouquet would be about $22 |
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Here is a more detailed look at the custom weight. It is made from a half-pint mason jar filled with birdseed. |
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Here is a nice look at one of the hummingbirds. |
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Here's a detail of the other hummingbirds |
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The birdseed weight above gave me several more good ideas. Here is a bouquet weight filled with M&M's |
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Next is one of Al's personal favorites, a bouquet weight filled with JellyBelly's |
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This is a Bouquet that Al put together for another friend who was recovering from a minor auto accident. It had the get-well soon balloon as well as some foil shapes. Those were accompanied by diamond clear and sapphire blue jewel toned latex balloons. Suspended halfway down the bouquet is a pair of twisted monkeys. The weight is a half-pint mason jar filled with M&M's. The bouquet was a big hit! |
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Here is Al with his daughter who helped pick the colors and foil balloons. She was very proud of her work and wanted to pose for the picture. |
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This is Al's first helium arch. He did it as part of the decoration for a dinner party at Al's home. The arch is 10' long. He did it out of 5" latex balloons and it hung at the top of the stairs in Al's split-level home. 5" balloons aren't recommended for arches, the float time is just too short with balloons that are that small. The float time on this arch was only about 5-6 hours. Al finished it about an hour before our party started and it was falling by the time the guests went home. |
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Al's kids were terribly excited to watch the arch go together and the couldn't resist posing with Al for the picture! |
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Along with the arch, Al added some foil palm trees and hung them in the party entrance. It set just the right tone as his guests arrived. |
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Encouraged by the arch above, Next Al tried a string-of-pearls arch out of 11" helium balloons treated with Ultra Hi-Float. This arch looked great for more than three weeks when Al finally took it down. |
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For Mother's Day 2007 Al put together this "Daisy and Mouse" balloon sculpture. Everyone who saw it thought that it was adorable. The base at the bottom hides a ceramic tile inside a latex balloon. That also makes this perfect to use a a weight for a balloon bouquet. |
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In thinking about what kind of bouquet would go nicely with the daisy and mouse above Al settled on this large flower arrangement. He treated these with Ultra Hi-Float and again, they lasted for weeks. |
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Here is the whole display put together. The daisy and mouse acted as a weight for the Spring Daisy bouquet above along with Al and his daughter. |
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Al's oldest son just had to get in on the act too! Al suspects that these would also make a good valentines bouquet if they were done in different colors |
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Here is Al, all setup to do balloon twisting at a Halloween event. This night, Al twisted balloons for a few hundred kids. Since Al was going to be in a Gym he knew he had room for some balloon decor with scale. Al put together an 8 foot column out of 5" air-filled latex and kept it floating with 11" latex balloons on top. By using air in the column and treating the latex with Ultra Hi-Float the column actually stayed quite nice for a few weeks after the event. |  |
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Al finds that it helps the kids choose an balloon figure more quickly if He puts out a few samples out on the table. Here is a tiger and a monkey in Halloween colors. |  |
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Taped to the edge of the table, this balloon bee was a popular choice among the party goers that nigt. |
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