Hearts and Flowers... but first a duck.

I'm just being honest with the title. Sorry if it sounds weird. I think it might be appropriate maybe to start explaining the process of how I get these sculptures done. First is the poptub fuck. I learned it from the Happy Cabbie on YouTube. I start out with a balloon that is half-inflated. (There are a lot of twists in this one.) I make two equal bubbles and join/lock them together. I then make two more bubbles the same size as the previous ones and join them to the first ones using the nozzle. The bubbles should look like a little pumpkin.

Get an orange balloon and work on the beak. First you make the cheeks with two small-ish flower twists. Then one big loop back in the middle between the two cheeks. Connect the beak to the head.

Now typically, you are supposed to carry on from the head using the same balloon, but I was using a scrap for the head, so I used a new balloon. I made a pinch twist in the back of the head to stabilize it, then a bubble for the neck. This was followed by a bird twist which is three longer equal-sized bubbles where one of the bubbles is pushed through between the other to and that holds it in place. In the bird twist was a pinch twist inserted by the neck. I also inserted a tail with three bubbles at the bottom.

A small blue balloon was partially inflated. It was attached at the pinch twist at the neck, twisted around the tail, then connected back at the neck. This was supposed to represent water, but to me it looked like an inner tube that the duck was using. I dunno. Here's the picture of the result:

I also made a few rose buds.They are made with three pinch twists at the top followed by the bird twist. Cut off the remaining balloon. To make the stem, you blow up your green balloon. Put five or six pinch twists at the nozzle end. If the balloon is not tight at the other end, you can insert leaves by making two flower twists. Voila!

Obviously in this example, I had some extra space in the green balloons, hence the leaves.

The heart is simple, but it's still necessary to be careful when making it. It is easily made lopsided. Anyway, after fully inflating a balloon, I make one-inch bubbles on either end and joined them. They made the point of the heart and I molded the point for where the two arcs meet at the top. To dress up the heart a little bit, I stuck two of the rosebuds in the heart. Here's what it looked like: