Just for Till...

My friend Serge's son Till is a real dragon and a true fighter. So when Till wasn't doing so well, I was more than happy to try to make some dragons to cheer him and his parents up, even just a little.

The results, however, were mixed.

I have seen that face somewhere before.

Materials: 1 Qualatex 260 (lime) and 1 Qualatex 160 (light blue here, I bet this would be cute in clear, but not great on pictures)
Difficulty: Easy
Source: Michael Floyd's 2-balloon dragon

I love Michael Floyd, I really do. But sometimes I find his balloons too simple, almost like he is losing cuteness for the sake of simplicity. They are often also deceptively simple looking, and harder to twist than they appear. This wasn't a case of that, but considering I had learned Michael's alligator already, I quickly realized that this is basically an alligator with wings. But it gets the job done, and I appreciate Michael for being the first balloon source I had. He is approachable and one of the first stops for new twisters.

She sure is selling this one.

Materials: 3 Qualatex 260s (2 lime green, 1 yellow), yellow scrap for the eyes, Qualatex 160 for the tongue
Difficulty: Wowza. (for me, so probably lower intermediate)
Source: Amazing Balloon Guy

Thank goodness for my assistant, Rebecca. In this case, she is actually holding the back of this balloon together in the rear. I am not accepting all the blame though, I was following  a tutorial where the guy said, "Well, I made a mistake. So the dragon will only have one leg in the back." WHAT???!!?? So I untwisted some of the body to make it work out, leaving this dragon with an AMAZING face and a mess of a retwisted body. Ugh.

My husband Christoph decided to let the dragons fight it out. Can you tell we have too many balloon animals laying around here?

Boys will be boys.