Origami Creations - Grizzly Bear Versus Alien

Another fun and playful day today ... it's the Grizzly Bear against Aliens.

I have had this wonderful Grizzly Bear origami for a long while now.  It's another Quentin Trollip model which fascinates me because of its outstanding head and body shaping.  And more importantly, the details of the paws on both hands and feet.  Awesome!

Who will win this match?

Again I scrounge my daughters toys and check what I can use for photo taking.  Aha, this cool wired alien bought from a HK anime event.  Just the right paring.

Have a great weekend guys!

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Origami Creations - Growling Tyrannosaurus (T-Rex)

Saw an interesting video by the famous Hong Kong origamist Kade Chan on his T-Rex model.  I couldn't help myself to try making it sans the MC, wet folding and the special tissue foil paper.  I would really love to learn how to use those things to make my foldings alive though ... in due time.

Here is my rendition of this cool model.

Cool T-Rex with my prehistoric background

It's an interesting fold and I dare you try it.  There are 3 parts of the video and below is part 1.  The rest you should be able to easily search it.

Did the more famous dragon by Kade long before - Click here.  You should be able to find the tutorial for this model in youtube.  It's a highly recommended piece.

Have a great weekend!

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Origami Creations - Endangered White Rhinoceros

The white rhino is the largest among the rhinoceros family.  It also has the best posture/stance among the wild beast in the animal kingdom.

This is one of my best loved design by Quentin .... here it is.

Scared Stick Figure Airmen

Time to dig out my daughters small toys collection for a bit of fun.  Got me just the right props - the airmen and the coconut tree.  

Hope you liked it!

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Other info:

White Rhino Wikipedia

Origami Creations - Japanese Tree Frog

In search of a challenging fold, I chance upon the Tree Frog by the great Satoshi Kamiya.  I had the opportunity to make a lot of his designs and so happy with the outcome on the Little Bird and the Lion.

This one is surely another cool project!

Shaping is tough but a rewarding fold

Really enjoyed this fold a lot but I would love to do it again with better paper for perfect shaping of the fingers and toes.

Surely want to try this soon!

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Origami Creations - Teddy Bear & Border Collie

It's been a long while since my last post.  Had a wonderful holiday with family but I still had the time to do some folding of Quentin Trollip's model - the color change expert.

The first one is the Teddy Bear which was a special request.  It is indeed a cool design and enjoyed making it.  

Cute and cuddly Teddy Bear

The next one is the Border Collie.  Not quite satisfied with my shaping yet again still quite impressed with its color change for the snout, mane and tail. 

Added to my Doggie fold Collection

Lovely weekend to all!

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Origami Creations - The Great Master Neil Elias

I have long wished to fold a Neal Elias origami design and was quite fortunate enough to get hold of one of  his famous work - the Boy on a Rocking Horse.

Super cool

This model is from an uncut square sheet of paper which was a little bit difficult to shape due to its thickness in some areas.  

Overall result is just pure beauty!

Have a wonderful week!

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More Info:

Neil Elias Wikipedia

Origami Creations - Cube Art Origami

I've read about Cube Art Origami from the book of Mr. Kunihiko Kasahara titled "The Art and Wonder of Origami".  Quite interesting as this technique is described as akin to painting on a square canvas.

I tried it and it is such a challenge to work within the square boundary.  Here below is my fold on one of the models in the book.

Owl among the the birds

Noticed the pigeons in the background?  Well, a surprising thing happened as I was sitting on the ground to take a photo of my fold, a huge flock of pigeons gathered around  me.  One even took a lot of interest and went really near my owl captured in my short video here:

Have a great weekend!  

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More Info:

The Art and Wonder of Origami Book Review

Origami Designs/Creations - Simple Wind swept tree

A challenging origami theme competition titled "it's a windy day" has just started. This is a tough one ... google images to the rescue!

Most photos are showing trees swaying from the wind.   The "swaying" part would be hard because I've only done dry folding i.e. hard straight crisp folding.    Other than the theme, there is also another important rule to contend with - fold must be less than 15 steps.

So without further ado, I came up with this - a 7 step model using color change for trunk and leaves.

Wind swept tree

It's a very easy piece using no base fold but just creative (trial and error) ingenuity (heavily leaning on my nuclear science background).  :o))))).

Finally the finished model was born:

Curling using a pen and made the trunk 3D

The back side view of the model.

Crease Pattern (CP) - Really easy!

Quite interesting.  I may try to do one or two more.  Onward to Google images!

Have a nice day!

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