"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

In origami there are several designers who design tulips. I can imagine why, it is lovely flower. This is Origami Tulip (in a pot) by Ryoichi Moro.

Diagrams in NOA magazine #356.

"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 athletic rabbit is training for the 'World Rabbits Biggest Jump'. He is very ambitious and super talented as you can see… ;-))

Besides practicing, he has another job to take care of: hiding the eggs. But before that happens the eggs have to pass a final test, lying in the sunshine to see they don't melt and that they shine enough so they can be found ;-)).

Meanwhile the youngest jumps and jumps"""" ;-))

Model: origami Jumping Rabbit

Design: Andrew Hudson

Diagrams in OUSA Convention book 2014

Folded from one piece of Japanese paper 30x30cm. Final size: about 18cm width and 10cm height. It is a flat model.

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

ƒ/2.0

3.5 mm

1/33 Sec

ISO 3.98

I folded the first three stars from the model "Etoile" by Lydia Diard and I decide to stop now and fold a whole field of stars from an other thicker kind of paper. Two reasons: first, I like the model as it looks now; second, this paper, glassine, is too thin and slippery to fold these stars. But it is very nice paper to take pictures because of its transparency, as you can also see in this very early stage of collapsing the first star.

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

Adding more creases to the origami 'Owl-base' (see first comment box) and an Owl is folded ;-))

Folded from 15x15cm white tant paper.

Final height 8cm.

Model: origami Owl

Design: James Sakoda

Diagrams in the book "Modern Origami" by James Sakoda

If you are interested to see more of his 'modern origami-models', you are invited to visit my origami-album James Sakoda. Enjoy ;-)

Stamp commemorating Tommy Cooer, UK comedian and magician

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

"Just sitting and dream away, waiting for the next moment, which is inviting enough to get back into action! Wouldn't it nice to be a cat? " ;-)))

I used a 20x20cm sheet of very thin handmade paper. Final height is about 8cm.

Model: origami Cat

Design: Jeong Jae IL

Diagrams in the origami Tanteidan Convention Book #24

I made a lot of photos of this little origami King Dragon, because of the various expressions it got, depending on the position of the head, besides that it was fun folding it ;-))

In this shot one can see a figure like mythological person instead of a dragon. That's the reason I show you this last version of this lovely origami model. I processed the photo to give it a more magical look.

In the first comment box you can see two previous photos of the same model.

Enjoy your Sunday and stay safe ;-)

HSS

Model: Origami King Dragon

Design: Yoshihisha Kimura

Diagrams in Origami Tanteidan Magazine 18 (part one) and 19 (part two)

Paper:

- Body: 30x30cm tissue foil

- Wings: 22,5x22,5cm tissue foil

- Head: 11,25x11,25cm tissue foil

Final size: about 16cm height

For Macro Mondays theme " Paper-Art "

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

"When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today."

Quote - Anthony de Mello

This little wise origami owl came to visit me and decided to stay here. It's such a sweetie, doesn't need much care, just a bit reshaping now and then ;-))

It was designed in 2006 by Yoshio Tsuda, he has created more origami owls, so I decided to make a series.

I used gold foil, 24x24cm.

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

Model: origami Scops Owl

Design: Yoshio Tsuda

Diagrams in Tanteidan Magazine #98

“The outside doesn't always match the inside.”

Quote ― Rebekah Crane

I thought it might be interesting to show you how just one unit from the origami 'Diamond Bridge 90' and also how the 3 units connection looks like from the outside (see photo on the left) and from the the inside( see photo on the right)

In the first comment box you see all the variations made with this unit.

Have a wonderful Wednesday!!!

Model: origami "Diamond Bridge 90"

Design: Miyuki Kawamura

Diagrams in Tanteidan Magazine #99

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

Layered handmade paper

Another origami-cat by Fred Rohm, also folded from just one piece of paper. It reminds me of one my own cats, who likes to hide himself in shopping bags ;-))

Model: origami 'Puss in Boots'

Design: Fred Rohm

Diagrams

- in the BOS-booklet #50

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

Folded from handmade paper with pattern 19,5x19,5xm.

Final size: width 9cm, height 11cm

****The older you are, the more you know about Santa Claus," she said. "You are so big now, you know he can't be just one man, don't you? You know he is everywhere on Christmas Eve. He is in the Big Woods, and in Indian Territory, and far away in York State, and here. He comes down all the chimneys at the same time. You know that, don't you?"

"Yes, Ma," said Mary and Laura.

"Well," said Ma. "Then you see--"

"I guess he is like angels," Mary said, slowly. And Laura could see that, just as well as Mary could.

Then Ma told them something else about Santa Claus. He was everywhere, and besides that, he was all the time.

Whenever anyone was unselfish, that was Santa Claus.

Christmas Eve was the time when everybody was unselfish. On that one night, Santa Claus was everywhere, because everybody, all together, stopped being selfish and wanted other people to be happy. And in the morning you saw what that had done.

"If everybody wanted everybody else to be happy all the time, then would it be Christmas all the time?" Laura asked, and Ma said, "Yes, Laura.” ****

Quote ― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Some of us still believe there is a Santa Claus...somewhere”

Quote ― Will Leamon

Have a very lovely X-mas !!! Enjoy ;-))

Model: origami Zabukoto Santa

Design: Hideo Komatsu

Diagrams in Tanteidan Convention Book #28

There is also a tutorial by Mariano Zavala

Paper: one sheet of red kami paper 24x24cm

Final size: height 13,5cm

We both, the origami Monk and me, wish you a very inspiring and creative weekend! Stay safe and healthy.

This Model is last creation made from the origami Owl-base by James Sakoda.

Model: origami Monk

Design: James Sakoda

Diagrams in the book "Modern Origami" by James Sakoda

Paper: one piece of 15x15cm tant paper

Final size: 5,5cm width and 9,5cm height

If you are interested to see more of his 'modern origami-models', you are invited to visit my origami-album James Sakoda. Enjoy ;-)

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

I have two black cats, called Lady and Dubh. It's hard to see the difference, because they are black and their behavior is almost identical. I also folded twice this lovely origami cat and made a different photo. Now you can guess who is who ;-))

Model: origami Cat

Design: Fred Rohm

Diagrams:

- in the booklet 'The world of Fred Rohm #49' by Pete Ford

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

Paper: one piece of black tant paper, 15x15cm.

Final size: height 14cm

For Macro Mondays : Paper art - HMM

Paper bird made to stick on a card

Another look at the lovely design by Miyuki Kawamura. I turned them on to another side and then they look different than the first photo here.

The name origami "Dualo" came from the polyhedron of the center of the model. Here you can see two modules.

You can make several variations with this nice module:

-The little ones are made from 6 modules each.

-The middle ones made from 12 modules each and you can choose for a 3 or 4 unit of modules, which gives different results.

-For the bigger ones you need 30 modules each and also here the choice is 3 or 5 unit.

I used these 60 modules also for an other pattern.

Each module is folded from 7,5x7,5 cm, duo-colered paper.

Diagrams can be found in the Tanteidan 16th Convention Book.

Two origami-fish abstracts. I folded them both from 20x20cm hand shaped paper.

Model: Fish object

Design by Takashi Hojyo

Diagrams in Tanteidan 7th Convention Book.

Taken for the the Macro Monday's theme "Paper Art".

-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. :)

This is a paper flower which is about 5 cm.

As you can see, my photo is not origami, but as a Japanese, I am very happy many people choose Origami as an object for this week's theme♡

Small paper crane on chopsticks sleeve. A cherished gift from Japan. Cropped to 3 in x 3in

#MacroMondays #paperart

The last model in the origami Star-Flower recovered series. Actually this one is made out of two: a small blue (8 units, each 2x2cm, blue kami paper) stuck on a larger one (also 8 units, each 4x4cm, green kamipaper).

In the first comment box, you see the two previous variations.

(I really don't know anymore on what occasion I folded it and if there are any diagrams. Sorry for that.)

As background I used a patterned origami-paper and added a texture.

Have a lovely weekend ahead ;-)

Macro Monday

Theme: Paper Art

Size: Less than 3x3 inches

The subject is a piece of tissue paper. I sprinkle some water drops on the paper and crunched it randomly to create these shapes.

With a bit of imagination it looks like hills and crumbling icebergs.

There are 2 sources of light , an overhead incandescent table lamp light and a LED torch under neath the tissue paper.

Many thanks for your visit, comments and faves...it is always

appreciated.

HMM

.. happy Friday :)

... for Macro Mondays theme "Paper art"

Another idea of altering my origami-tessellation 'Flower-Star' is to move the pattern and create a new centre, which gives new possibilities, using the same pattern. Hope it makes sense what I write….;-)

This is just a little tessellation to see if my idea would work. I call this molecule "Interweave".

This is how the other side, called "Arrow" looks like.

Folded from a hexagon 15x15cm, 'Anett-Paper', grid 1:32

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

Macro Mondays - hearts measure 1.5 x 1.5 cm.

Spiral Paper. Wound a strip of A4 paper around a Biro, Then lit it with Adaptalux Studio lighting arms from behind, on a black perspex sheet.

A short interruption of my ice-series, because it also Carnival this weekend. And for those who celebrate it, I folded these a pair of twin witch-ladies, a day and a night version ;-))

Model: origami Witch Mask

Design by Komatsu Hideo

Diagrams in Tanteidan Magazin 148.

I used red/black duo-color paper, 18x18cm.

Final height 9cm.