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Balloon Artist
3/25/2022 | 1m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
After seeing the balloon recreation of the = Depot, we had to talk with Laural!
After seeing the balloon recreation of the St. Louis County Depot, we had to talk with Laural, the artist behind the massive balloon display, and find out more about her love of balloons! She also made the cutest balloon kitty! Want to learn how to make your own creation? She'll be back on The Slice next week giving us a demonstration!
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The Slice
Balloon Artist
3/25/2022 | 1m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
After seeing the balloon recreation of the St. Louis County Depot, we had to talk with Laural, the artist behind the massive balloon display, and find out more about her love of balloons! She also made the cutest balloon kitty! Want to learn how to make your own creation? She'll be back on The Slice next week giving us a demonstration!
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I'm from Rochester originally, and I started there by taking a, just an intro to Twisting Balloon twisting course I thought it was going to be like, you know, learn the one balloon dog and maybe a sword and anything you could do with, like, a long, skinny balloon.
I'd never done any of that.
And I thought it would be fun to learn just for, like, party tricks and be the cool cousin and the cool auntie.
It's a really creative medium, but it's also more immediate than a lot of art.
So I crochet, too, but it might take me weeks to finish a project where as even a really large balloon installation or a dress or something will only take me a few days.
Besides the actual balloons themselves, I use a lot of information equipment, anywhere from a hand pump to the floor pump I brought today to electric pumps that can help me inflate things for like large projects they're timed and can help me inflate a large number of balloons the exact same size or two different sizes as I set it.
And that really just helps me be able to create bigger projects quicker There is a great big world of balloons out there, and I think a lot of people don't know about it.
So this is really fun to be able to talk about it a little bit.
And I feel like I'm still scratching the surface.
I'm still learning stuff all the time.
I'm attending different projects and things like that to grow my skills because people are coming up with new stuff all the time.
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