Art For Fun: 2018

23 February 2018

21 February 2018

20 February 2018

19 February 2018

Origami St. George's Cube

Designed By: Francis Ow

6 inch Origami Paper used. 6 units

Instructions by EzOrigami:

Simple to fold. Looks amazing in the end.

11 February 2018

09 February 2018

Origami Double Hearts

Origami paper, rectangle 3 inch : 6 inch used

Tutorial:

07 February 2018

Origami Cookiecutter

No of units: 30

3 inch Origami paper used.

Tutorial by Jo Nakashima:

05 February 2018

Kawasaki Electra kusudama

Kawasaki Electra Kusudama

Kawasaki Roses

Kwasaki Rose: Toshikazu Kawasaki

Electra : David Mitchell

03 February 2018

Electra Kusudama

Electra Kusudama - harmony paper

Electra Kusudama - printer paper

No of units: 30

Thinner paper is suited to assemble. I used harmony paper(3 inch square) and printer paper(about 4 inch square). With printer sheets assembly was difficult, paper would come out. I had to use glue. Origami paper is better for this model.

31 January 2018

Origami: Rhino

Origami Rhino

Tutorial:

Single Sheet: 8.5 inch and 6 inch printer paper and origami paper used.

29 January 2018

Mandarin Bird

28 January 2018

Pluto Kusudama

Tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9CawUozgRI

This one is very similar to Venus, just a one fold difference. I used 3 inch Origami papers. Totally 40 units.

Assembly

Venus and Pluto as wall decorations

27 January 2018

Venus Kusudama

Venus Kusudama units

Yet another lovely kusudama from the Kusudama Ball Origami book. The units are similar to butterfly kusudama. However folding the forth fold was slightly difficult, I got a hang of it after folding few units. The assembly is different, there are no pockets or flap or no glue to be used. Instead it has to be sewed. I wanted to try this technique.

Number of units required 36. I used color printer papers of 6 different colors, 6 units of each color.

23 January 2018

Butterfly Kusudama

Kusudama Flowers

Tutorial to make one flower: link

Number of flowers required to make kusudama is 12. Totally 60 square sheets required. Assembly in dodecahedron fashion. Glue required to assemble.

I wanted to stop doing Origami with 1000 cranes. I thought this is it and I will stop, but then that didn't happen. Origami is like meditation which gives me lot of peace and happiness and mainly a diversion from the routine. It's 5 years now since I have been folding. Earlier when I began I bought a pack of printer papers and cut the papers to squares and folded. That is lot of time consuming. Now I feel very lazy to cut the sheets and fold. However this Butterfly Kusudama is made using printer papers. The models are sturdier with printer papers. I made Morning Dew Kusudama long time back, which I felt I didn't assemble neatly. This one is from the same book by Makoto Yamaguchi and loved the kusudama. I made sure I folded neatly and assembled neatly as well!!