A colleague recently spent an extended time back home on Kythera, a lovely island in Greece:
Returning to work is never easy after such time away, but I can feel and understand her longing to return. This shell is meant to evoke dream memories of Kythera. Continue reading
When you are sitting, you have a bunch of time to think. When you have cylindrical media on hand, you start to think about what you can do with it:
Having previously dabbled in loo-roll faces, I began wondering if there was some geometric beauty in cylinder wrangling and happened across a scalable technique that allows a twist without completely breaking the cylindrical form. Continue reading
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it probably is a duck:
This is an intense little model that eats paper like few others. The body is heavy and shaping I found difficult because of the many layers. Continue reading
Pressed for time, I folded a model I had meant to fold a month ago:
This is Oriol Esteve’s “Nosy Cat” – a lovely little cat that in my first fold looks more like a kitten. Continue reading
Le Papillon de Nuit translates, roughly as “The Night Butterfly” – a charming fold with a lovely detailed abdomen:
Unlike the other La Fosse butterflies, this one works and then re-works layers on the wings, making the finished model smaller but unique in shape. Continue reading
Catching up, finally, and continuing exploration of the form, this is a luna moth: apparently the main difference between a moth and a butterfly is that moths typically do not have winds that meet above the body – I may have just made that up:
I like the slight “swallowtail” formation here – lots of work pre butterfly formation in getting proportions right makes this seem graceful. Continue reading
Yes, I know, it is a day late, but i have been busy marking, so, yeah:
This is another Michael LaFosse butterfly – more fancy than most with the pleaty zig zags adding decorative touches. Continue reading
Continuing my exploration of the butterfly form, where better to look than a lovely papillon from Michael LaFosse’s “Butterflies” bible:
This lovely little flapper again uses bicolour paper cleverly, has a nice efficiency of final model size for starting paper size and was fun to fold. Continue reading
Scrumbling through my “must fold list” I came across a curious hand-drawn diagram set from Spain and decided to give it a whirl:
After much torturing (I started with a 35cm square) the result is a rather lovely goat. I think this is my favourite farmyard animal so far – lovely proportions, fantastic modelling potential. Continue reading
Dragons are an origami staple (although using staples is cheating!):
I am always on the lookout for a nice design and Hojyo Takashi’s Dragon is no exception. Continue reading
Cruising teh interwebs for today’s fold, a butterfly design was shared on the Sydney Origami Society’s Fakebook feed:
This is Rikki Donachie’s Butterfly, a lovely simple but effective butterfly design. Continue reading
The internet is an amazing thing, it affords connections between mortals and luminaries in the field:
I noticed Sara Adams (a living legend in the Origami World) was asking for test folders to test diagrams she was drawing and I immediately put my hand up. Continue reading
I am nothing if not determined at times. This model has beaten me many times but, due to a perfect storm it seemed to just happen in my hands:
This is Satoshi Kamiya’s “Tsuru Rose” – an odd but beautiful combination of a Kawasaki rose twist in the body segment of a traditional Tsuru. Continue reading
When I was in Japan, I bought 2 origami books and have not really folded much from them to date:
The books are totally in Japanese, no English at all so I have NO idea who the designer of this model is.
Made from 4 squares of paper (back legs, front legs, head, tusks) and this is a little beauty. Continue reading
Browsing a BOS convention booklet, I came across a rather nice butterfly designed by Ronald Koh:
This is the Tumasek butterfly, I folded it in duo yellow/green paper making it a little like a cabbage white butterfly. Continue reading
