Origami Creations - The Eye-catching Butterfly Fish

I was so enamoured by the Butterfly fish as designed by the japanese origamist Yoshimasa Tsuruta. This fish is named as the most attractive fish in the ocean.  At times it is called the longfin bannerfish or pennant coral fish.

Cool color change and Shaping

A closer look

Isn't it a cool model?  The photo diagram tutorial can be found here.

Enjoy and have a great week.

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Origami Creations - The Beautfiul Butterfly Fish

In my search for another fish ori-adventure, I came upon this video of the Butterfly fish.

It's a beautiful tropical marine fish and I was immediately attracted by its shape and pointed mouth. 

Here is my ori-fold of the butterfly fish designed by Seo Won Seon aka Redpaper.

Adorable 

You may find the diagram for this model in his book "Creative Origami". 

Wishing everyone a great week!

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Origami Creations - Whales Unlimited

I have set my sights on bigger fishes for bigger blessings.  Yes, I am doing whales and more whales this time :-).

First up is the Gray (instead of Blue) Whale (opus 258) by the origami master Robert J. Lang.  The diagram can be found in his book - Origami Animals.

Great yet simple looking design

Next is the color change Whale by Fuchimoto Muneji. The diagram for this model can be found in his book Origami Pet Island.

And the cutest of them all and my most favourite is the Box Whale by Saku Saku.

Here is the tutorial to make this model.

Enjoy!

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Origami Creations - The Perfect Yellowtail Fish

After my post on the Goldfish, I finally decided to proceed and channel my energies to making more folds on fishes.  This is for abundance of blessings for the New Year!

This awesome model which I have chosen is by another japanese origamist named Katsuta Kyohei.  

Color change at its Best!

It's a very interesting and expressive piece with complete fins, eyes and gills.  The diagram for this model can be found in the Origami Tanteidan Magazine No. 116.

Have a great week!

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Origami Creations - Gold fish for Good Luck

The word for Fish in chinese is a homophone for "abundance" and "affluence".  Quite fitting for my first post for the year 2016!  

An even more appropriate fish to fold is the GOLD fish which is a symbol for wealth and good luck!

Perfect shaping

This beautiful model is designed by the japanese origamist Fuchimoto Muneji.  Despite not having any color changes, it shaping strikingly resembles the goldfish.  You may find the diagram in his book below:

Here's wishing and praying for heaps of happiness, prosperity, good health and success for everyone in the New Year!

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Origami Creations - The Smart Puffer/Balloon Fish

I just saw an interesting national geographic video of a puffer/balloon fish and how it evades a predator.  Check out the video below:

Such an amazing and cool animal.  

Here below is my origami fold rendition designed by Fuchimoto Muneji.

Puffer Fish in its environment

Quite an intriguing subject ... will try my hand on designing one for my collection.

Hopefully I get to make one soon!

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Origami Creations - Who loves Tuna?

In spite of not having any color change technique, I was so impressed with this Tuna fish model by the Japanese origamist Fuchimoto Muneji. 

Perfect proportions

Reminds me of the Tuna Tornado video I saw months ago ...

An amazing video for a wonderful week!

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Origami Creations - Cool Sea Bream Fish

In spite missing the color change effect on the fish model by Kaede Nakamura, it's detailing was impressive enough to convince me to try and make it. 

Perfect for BBQ :-)

This is my first try and will surely make a bigger one with better paper soon.  

If you want to try this, you can check out the photo diagram here.  It is a chinese website but I believe you can easily follow the instructions.

A great week to all!

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Origami Creations - Swimming Fish

Quite attracted with this action origami model called Swimming Fish designed by Ng Boon Choon.  It does not follow any specific origami base but you will surely enjoy the steps to fold it as it is super smooth.

Whale among the fishes?

Here is how to make one...

You should have a great time making this and impressing your friends.

Enjoy!

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Origami Creations - Beautiful Ryukin Goldfish

One of my favorite asian origami designer is Master Ronald Koh.  He has created a lot of famous designs but what impressed me most are his goldfish models.  

To learn more about Mr. Koh as well as his creations, click here.

Below is his Ryukin Goldfish that I have folded recently.

Perfectly shaped

I encountered some difficulty during the folding as the model paid a lot of attention to details on the shaping (from its eyes to the tail fins) to mimic the real thing.  Nevertheless, the resulting piece is a great joy to behold!

Hope you liked it too and have a great week ahead!

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Origami Creations - Prehistoric Fishbone

An interesting model shared by an Indonesian ori-friend by the name of Hadi Tahir.  I have created one of his works before and blogged here.

Again, I am very much impressed with the smart color changing technique in his designs and this is one of them.

Cool stuff, huh?

Impressive, huh?  My fold look more like a prehistoric fish ... a bit scary but to me quite realistic.  Diagram is available in his flickr account here.

Hope you liked it and have a wonderful week!

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Origami Creations - Folding Nemo the Clownfish (小丑魚)

Just re-watched "Finding Nemo" the other day which led me to dig out my origami box for the clown fishes which I have folded long before.

I am a big fan of origami models with color changes and one of this challenge can be encountered with the clown fish.

First catch is Roman Diaz's clownfish.

Lovely

Next catch is Katrin Shumakov's (Oriland) design. 

Clown on Clown

I remember making one by a famous Korean origamist Seo Won Seon (redpaper) but couldn't find it now.  Guess that is the one that got away :-(.

Hope you enjoyed these models and have a wonderful week!

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Healthy Steam Fish Meal for the Family

Spring is here and it's time to cook my wife's favorite food - Chinese steam fish.  It's very simple, healthy and flavorful complete with the garnishing and top with rice wine and the special sea food soy sauce.

Here's the mouth watering meal that I have prepared.

  

I made a short photo video here for those who maybe interested to see how easily it's done.

Enjoy your meal and have a great day!

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Origami Creations - Siamese Fighting Fish (暹羅鬥魚)

I have always wanted to try and fold a Robert J. Lang origami model.  This famous master is an American physicist who is also one of the foremost origami artists and theorists in the world.

He has designed and folded so many models from the simple to mostly highly complex pieces so it is a bit of a challenge for me to decide which one to do.

Finally, I got to see his Siamese Fighting Fish design and decided to make one for me.

It's a real fighter!
 

I chose foil paper to fold this design which makes a bit shiny on the photos but the actual piece is really beautiful and can stand by itself.

Hope you like it too!

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More info:

Robert J. Lang Wiki

Robert J. Lang Website