Looking for a nice, rich, challenging fold for the day, I knew I needed to try a model from Robert Lang:
This is his model “Jackson’s Chameleon” – a deliciously complicated model with all the chameleonic bits you expect.
Working with a slightly un-square square of light green washi, the pre-folding is fascinating, layer management and seemingly impossible moves abound – there were many times I thought I had screwed up, only to find out that it worked. Continue reading
I for one think collectors of fossils need to be really careful piecing together extinct animals from scant remains.
Many a time illogical collections of bones have been cobbled together to bamboozle the public and, at first glance, a Pteranodon seems about illogical as a platypus. Continue reading
It is a full moon, 24 miles south of the OKish Corral, and the local Coyotes are howling:
This rather cute wolf/dog/coyote…thing is a rather nicely structured quadruped that I think is a useful base for modelling other such critters.
It is part of a collection of wolves/howling things I looked out for when a particular house at school decided to use a howling wolf as their mascot this year. Continue reading
I know, I am behind, but have been inexplicably tired of late, time to catch up:
This is a swallow, or more correctly a mud lark, but is a fun fold from DOT1 that I was going to try. Continue reading
It is interesting how things sometimes just work themselves out:
Here was me, panicking because I had nothing ready or in mind for today’s fold, came home and the latest Tanteidan Magazine was in my mailbox. Continue reading
Apparently there is an Origami Olympiad – an annual internet competition where folders are pitted against a collection of challenging folds for points:
This model is the first one from the IVth International Origami Internet Olympiad, a publication that contains other things I will try also. Continue reading
Perusing my copy of Tanteidan Magazine #163, I came across a cute 2-part model that I thought I should try:
Using orange for the fish and blue for the waves seemed to make sense at the time. Continue reading
Exploring Drawing Origami Tome 2, I found this lovely little crab:
Designed by Fernando Castellano, it cleverly divides up a waterbomb base into legs and nippers, isolating them from the body. Continue reading
Leafing through my copy of Drawing Origami Tome 2, I noticed a spectacular modular designed by Francesco Mancini that I knew I had to try:
Modules folded from 2×1 rectangles lock together really nicely, creating clusters of 3 and 5, forcing the megastructure to curve gently into a spikey ball. Continue reading
Busy week, nearly at the weekend, this lovely little fold is a perfectly adorable spaniel:
Designed by Patricia Kunz Tomic, in DOT1, I like the use of paper, general proportions and general spanielity. Continue reading
Few things can compare to the biological miracle that allows a caterpillar to become a chrysalis, inside of which it’s body chemistry and morphology transitions from grub to soup to butterfly:
Few models try to capture the whole journey. This set, designed by Fernando Gilgado is an exception. Continue reading
What a wonderful bird is a Pelican, whose beak can hold more than it’s belly can:
We saw lots of pelicans when on holiday up the mid-north coast in the holidays just ended. Majestic gregarious birds that seem to be an odd sum of parts. Continue reading
For some reason the republic of Australia still has ties to a monarchy that is completely irrelevant to us but somehow, ultimately, still controls aspects of our government:
I decided to celebrate the public holiday (yay, I accept the holiday, just reject the reason) by folding a crown. Continue reading
First day of the new month, one superstition seems to be to say “White Rabbits” as the first thing you say that day – not sure why:
This is Fernando Castellanos’ rabbit, taken from DOT2, and it seems, designed to be folded on a MUCH larger sheet of paper than this. Continue reading
Cruising through my copy of Drawing Origami (Tome 1), I noticed a bunch of folds from there that I had not yet tried:
This little fellow is a bi-colour owl designed by Juan Hibou. Owls seem popular in origami design and this one cleverly manages layers and colours. Continue reading
