"There are many possible directions to go from here. The current structure is folded only once. Like paper origami, it is possible to fold multiple times."

Quote —Ming Wu

Macro Mondays: Paper Art

My first origami :)

Not perfect, but for me it's ok

I hope you like it

The frontside of "Woven rings" by Joel Cooper is very nice, but I also like the backside, especially when it is backlit. Here you see two different view of that backside ;-)

I folded a little version, I don't have the right paper (yet) to make a bigger one. Here I used thin paper. I folded also another one from thicker paper, you can see the frontside and backside here.

Big thanks to Monika Hanková, who reverse-engineered this lovely model and showed us the backside.

Folded from wrapping paper, hexagon out of A4, grid 1:28.

Final size about 9 cm.

"Have you heard the good news...? Spring has arrives in this part of the world....so cheer up, my dearest. Winterwonderland will just be a memory of a cold dream."

Happy Sliders Sunday ;-))

""""This young Santa is very excited. He was playing in the attic under the guise of tidying up....... and look what he found! It it could come in handy during this festive time of December, don't you think so too? It will be his very first Xmas ;-)))""""

Model: origami Santa Claus

Design: Teiichiro Terui

Diagrams in Tanteidan 14th Convention Book

I used a 18x18cm red kami to fold this Santa Claus.

Final size: Height 10cm, width 5,5cm

A tiny book of handmade art paper.

Macro of a small folded triangle paper giftbox in the shape of a pyramide

(2.5" x 2,5" x 1.5")

Taken 10.08.2021 and

uploaded for the group

Macro Mondays #PaperArt

[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]

😄 Happy Macro Monday 😄

Gigaset GS 290

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

Wishing you and your beloved ones all the best in good health and mood. Enjoy 2023!! And let's hope that the wish that there will be peace may come true this year!!!

Model: Origami Happy New Year Crane or Kadoma Tsuru

Design: Arisawa Yuga

Diagrams in Tanteidan Convention Book #22

I folded it with a 20x20cm double colored paper with a little dot.

Final size: height 8xm, lengt 7cm, width betwee the wings 4cm.

I love to fold and then make a nice picture of it, so I can share my love, the joy and beauty of origami with others. And maybe you get inspired to try it too!

So this time I a folded a trombone, as I like music too. Hope it makes you smile.

Wishing you lots of smiles this weekend ;-))

For the Smile on Saturday! :-) theme: "I love to…"

Model: origami Trombone

Design: Arisawa Yuga

Diagrams in the book Incredible Skills Origami

Paper: gold foil with a pattern 24x24cm. Final size: length 14cm, height 6cm

“Macro Mondays” ,

“Paper Art” ,

Macro,

Folded Paper,

Fan Fold,

Side Lit,

Prism Illumination,

Reflection,

United States,

Pennsylvania,

Summer.

Stamp commemorating Tommy Cooer, UK comedian and magician

This is a paper case of the type used to make muffins. it's been cut in half and rolled into a small flower only a few cm across.

Macro Mondays - Paper Art

An older origami Buddha design, more abstract, but…. folded from just one piece of paper! It is a very ingenious design, I like it a lot.

I had to wait for the perfect sunlight to make the photo and this morning that moment was there;-))

Model: origami 'Seated Buddha'

Design: Fred Rohm

Diagrams:

- in the BOS-booklet #51: "The World of Fred Rohm" by Pete Ford

- - on the CD: 'The Origami World of Neal Elias' by Dave Venables and Marc Cooman

Paper: one piece of gold foil, 24x24cm.

Final size: height 10cm, size of one side of the 'table' 6cm

For Macro Mondays theme " Paper-Art "

One can recognize Rohm's origami 'cat-designs' by the way the eyes are shaped. This model is folded from only one piece of paper and it can stand by itself.

Model: origami 'Togetherness', also called 'Me and my Shadow'

Design: Fred Rohm

Diagrams:

- in Pajarita magazine #38

- in the BOS-booklet #49 "The World of Fred Rohm" by Pete Ford

- on the CD: 'The Origami World of Neal Elias' by Dave Venables and Marc Cooman

Paper: one sheet of double colored kamipaper 24x24cm. Final size: height about 10cm, width (from tail to tail) 11cm

A more closer look of "Pattern" (see first comment box). The texture reminds me of stone, so I did some processing to emphasize that.

The paper I used is 'glassine', which is great photogenic paper because of its translucency.

A last different shot of the origami Hedgehog, now playing in the garden with his leaf ;-))

Happy Monochrome Thursday ;-))

if you want to see more photos of this origami model, please visit my Origami - Kouji Nakagawa album.

Model: origami Hedgehog

Design: Kouji Nakagawa

Diagrams in Tanteidan Convention Book #8

Paper: 35x35cm brownish elephant-hide paper.

Final size: height 5cm, width 12cm, length 12cm

"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."

Quote - Victor Hugo

I guess a little bit infected by the spring fever ;-)), but when I found this joyful origami model, I just knew I had to fold it and show it to you. I made a kind of top view photo so you can see the other color inside too. Enjoy!!

I used three pieces of double colored dotted paper (15x15cm for the pot and leaf; 12,5x12,5cm for the flower).

Final hight 14cm.

Model: origami Potted Flower

Design: Takako Ogura

Diagrams in origami NOA-magazine #452

Because of the title of this model: "R-DECO" by Miyuki Kawamura, I decided to do mirror-art, so you see the two different sides in one photo. It's a real SOOC.

It's folded from 6 rectangle pieces, 7,5x15cm. The modules are easy and for the assembling thicker paper is recommended, so I used Freudenberger paper.

Diagrams in 21th Origami Tanteidan Convention 2015.

I wanted to fold this Rose model for a long time and I finally did, as you can see. It feels good to have the time again to fold without being disturbed :-))

It is an older origami model, but still worthwhile folding it. I used for the rose a square of red glassine, 21x21cm. Final size about 8cm. And for the leaf, silver foil with a kind of paint spray-dots (12,5x12,5cm).

Model: origami Rose Medallion

Design: Shuzo Fujimoto

Diagrams in NOA Magazine #458

Have a guess....What is it or better what will it be?

We are halfway a folding process....... ;-))

Update: It is an in-between-step, folding the origami Hedgehog by John Richardson. The finished model look like this.

Model: origami Hedgehog

Design: John Richardson

Diagrams: BOS magazine #75

Folded from a rectangle (2:3) German wrapping-paper 27x40,5cm

Final size: length about 10cm, width about 9cm, height about 5cm

"Planting a Japanese maple tree in your garden traditionally symbolizes the welcoming of autumn as a friend. The Japanese phrase "momiki-gari" translates to "maple viewing" or "maple hunting," which refers to the ritual visitation to the mountains each fall to view the brilliance of wild maple trees. In Asian art, star-shaped leaves of the Japanese maple trees are often paired with deer, as both are common symbols of the arrival of autumn."

info - WiKi

In case you like autumn a lot and you do have a garden and no maple yet, you might consider to plant one. There are many species to choose from.

This folded 'Maple Leaf' looks also different than the previous ones I showed you and also a more complex one to fold.

If you are interested to see those other origami 'maple leaves', visit my album 'Flowers and Leaves'. (and scroll down to the bottom)

I folded this 'Full-Moon Maple Leaf' from a red-brown kamipaper (24x24cm). Final size height 12,5cm, width 10,5cm.

Model: origami Full-Moon Maple Ver.18.0

Design: Kasumi Seishi

Diagrams in Tanteidan 24th Convention Book

Here you see twice the same origami modular by Isa Klein, called 'Bromelias', that I folded recently. On the left the flower is still closed and on the right it has openend ;-)

You need 30 easy to fold elements and then you have to glue them together. That is the only way to make this modular.

Model: origami Bromelias

Design: Isa Klein

Diagrams in Origami USA Convention Book 2014

Paper: 30 pieces of double colored paper with little dots (7,5x7,5cm) Final size: diameter about 9cm

"These origami daffodils are having a little conversation."

I used thin white Japanse paper, so I decided to present this model in monochrome.

Happy Thursday ;-))

Name: Daffodil

Design: Toshie Takahama

Diagrams in the book: Creative Life With Creative Origami 3

Each daffodil is folded from two pieces of paper:

- flower: a hexagon 14,5cm

- stem + leaves: one rectangle 50x9cm: first you have to cut a rhombus and then fold it

Final height of complete flower: about 25cm height, of which 10cm for the flower (point to point)

Folded from six sheets of shiny paper(15x15cm) with an irregular color pattern, which makes this polyhedron even more intriguing ;-).

You see it from different sides, in this triptych. I didn't fold it three times though, just made the photos smaller.

Final size: diameter about 16 cm

Name: origami Polyhedron including Hyperboloid:6

Design: Aoto Morisawa

Diagrams: Tainteidan Convention Book #24

"The train is a small world moving through a larger world."

Quote - Elisha Cooper

This is also a 3D train, and stand by itself, but is rather flat ;-))

I folded both parts from a 21x21cm double colored kami-paper. Trains can have a fancy color too, right?, especially in Origami-land ;-))

Happy a joyful start of your weekend!!

Final size:

Locomotive: height 8cm, width 9cm

Passenger car: height 5cm, width 12cm, but it includes the coupling part.

Length of the whole train once connected is about 18cm.

Model: origami Locomotive and Passenger Car

Design: Katsuhia Tamada

Diagrams in the NOA-magazine #362

for MACRO MONDAYS

Theme : "Paper Art" - August 16, 2021

"I must have flowers, always and always."

Quote - Claude Monet

And when they are (not yet ) visible in the garden, I just fold them ;-)) Like these little happy tulips, greeting us enthusiastic and saying: "Happy Monday and a lovey week ahead! "

Model: origami Tulip

Design: Taiko Niwa

Diagrams in the origami NOA-magazine #296

Paper:

Red tulip:

- flower: 6,25x6,25cm red foil; final size 3,75cm

- leaf: 7,5x7,5cm green Japanese paper; final size 7cm

Together final size about 10cm

Both yellow tulips:

- flower: 5x5cm, final size 3cm

- leaf: made from a triangle, diving a square 7,5x7,5cm by a diagonal; final size 7cm

Together final size about 9cm

Layered handmade paper

“Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring”.

Quote ― Richard L. Ratliff

For the 3d daffodils I used kamipaper. They are folded from a hexagon. The leaves are flat and folded from green copy paper, all different sizes. I had to glue them on a piece of paper, kind of 'painting' ;-))

Final size (only measuring the flowers ): height 25cm, width 26cm

Wishing everyone a joyful weekend ahead ;-))

Model: Origami Daffodils

Design: Tomoko Tanaka

Diagrams in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #77

Paper Art made from a Book

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HMM!! Happy Macro Mondays, Paper beads, on a paper music covered mannequin, and paper scarf I knitted. Three types of paper art!

""" Surely you've all heard the sensational news, that Santa Claus is on his way and here he is spotted once more.

This Santa prefers to travel over the water at night. His silver reindeer look small, but they can produce such a super speed,

that the human eye cannot perceive them, as they pass by. Fortunately, a collage of Santa Claus was able to take a photo."""

Model: origami Santa Claus, Reindeer and Sleigh

Design: Kunihiko Kasahara

Diagrams in the book 'All Cute Origami' by Kunihiko Kasahara

Paper:

- Santa: on sheet of 15x15cm red kamipaper

Final size: height 7,5cm. width 5cm

-The two reindeer are folded each from a rectangle of silver foil, 7,5x15cm.

Final size: height 4,5cm, length 4,5cm, width 2cm

- Sleigh: one sheet of patterned foil 15x15cm

Final size: height 4 cm, length 10,5cm, width 4cm

This is how my origami tessellation "Sea of Flowers" looks like with sunlight.

You can see the 'blue backlit version' in the first comment box.

In the second comment box you see the backlit version of the other side, called 'Origami Tessellation 'E-safflowers' (backlit)

It is a large extension of the 'Face 3', but now it looks more now like a "Sea of Flowers".

Folded from a hexagon 43cm, grid 1:128, 'Anett'-paper.

If you are interested to see more, have a look at my tessellation album Origami - Tessellation Progression".

For Macro Mondays : Paper art - HMM

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

Quote ― James Baldwin

Before I start folding all the elements of an origami modular,( in this case 30 pieces) I always ensemble a few of them together to see if the paper is the right choice.

I must admit that this paper was very sturdy and not really pleasant to fold with, but its translucency did it., as I love backlighting paper.

Here you see 3 elements (10,5x10,5cm) joined, backlight and you are looking inside. I see a face, hope you see it too ;-))

Enjoy your Wednesday !!

Model: origami Star Ball (3 elements joined)

Design: Jeannine Mosely

Diagrams in origami Tanteidan Convention Book 8

Paper bird made to stick on a card

During the assembling proces of this origami modular "Ginger Torch" you can also see nice patterns inside (top photo left) and just before the closing (photo below left).

The finished version on the right.

This Kusudama is folded from 30 pieces (7,5x7,5cm) of double colored kami paper. Final diameter: about 14cm

A 12-piece version is also possible. I folded that too and you can see that Kusudama here, together with the 30 pieces version and just one module/element.

Model: Origami Ginger Torch Kusudama

Design: Aldo Marcell

There is a tutorial by Judith Magen.

A lovely little tulip garden for on your desk ;-))

Isa Klein created this, using the traditional models 'Tulip' and 'Leaf' and put them together in an ingenious box, but not difficult to fold and ensemble. You can choose between a square or pentagon box and so you can created you own garden with respectively 4 or 5 tulips.

I folded the 5-tulip-garden pentagon box ;-)

Paper:

5 red squares 7,5x7,5cm for the tulips

5 green squares 7,5x7,5cm for the leaves

5 green squares 7,5x7,5cm for the box

Final height about 8,5cm

Of course you can use bigger paper.

Model: Origami Jardim de Tulipas - Tulip Garden

Design: Isa Klein

There is a tutorial, made by herself.

Once more the same origami daffodil-trio, but in a blue version and different angle. It was the first photo I made actually, but I wasn't happy about it because the stems/leaves were too short (although I used the recommend size), so I folded longer stems/leaves and made a different photo, as you can see in the first comment box.

But I still like this photo, so I decided to show it to you.

Interesting to know your opinion.

Name: origami Daffodil

Design: Toshie Takahama

Diagrams in the book: Creative Life With Creative Origami 3

Each daffodil is folded from two pieces of thin Japanese paper:

- flower: a hexagon 14,5cm

- stem + leaves: one rectangle 30x10cm: first you have to cut a rhombus and then fold it

Final height of complete flower: about 19cm height of which 10cm for the flower (point to point)

-Lauren Beukes

Of course I had to create a new critter for my origami collection. This is a little whale. Super easy to do and cute! I now have made a bear, a fox, a kitty (which I will post later), a boat, a sombrero, and a dress. I wonder what else I can make. :)

Almost done……

All the creases are done, now the shaping part begins. Tomorrow I show you the final model.

There were some guesses already, but not yet the right one.

What you see here is a ….???

I made a little series about the in-between-steps: 'Paper Art':

- Paper Art 1

- Paper Art 2

- Paper Art 3

- Paper Art 4

Have a lovely Tuesday ;-))

Update:

Model: origami Hedgehog

Design: Kouji Nakagawa

Diagrams in Tanteidan Convention Book 8

Paper: 35x35cm brownish elephant-hide paper.

Final size: height 5cm, width 12cm, length 12cm

if you want to see more photos of this origami model, please visit my Origami - Kouji Nakagawa album.