Shiba by Takashi Toyomura

The details on the head are amazing!

Photo by Hiroaki Kobayashi

23th Origami Tanteidan Convention. Exhibition of Takashi Toyomura


 Even has a sniff hole:

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And the tail is impressive, too!

Penguin that can stand on its head

Kinda like the tarumpty tum tum/tumbler:

Isamu Sasagawa's Biting Skull (puppet)

I folded this a month or so ago:

Fun little puppet.  I used some leftover elephant hide to fold this (don't remember what size paper).  Because of the natural stiffness of the paper, no tape needed to stick to the fingers and keep the mouth open (as suggested by Sasagawa in his video, and due to the paper he folded with). 



If you enjoy this model, check out Isamu Sasagawa's channel for more fun and original action models.

October POP meeting

Jared in charge!

I arrived an hour into this month's POP meetup.  Joel Stern was out so Jared Needle was charged with running the meeting.   He was just finishing up with teaching Hideo Komatsu's jack-o-lantern.

Larry taught a bat that I believe (from Larry's description) is from a Tadashi Mori bat video.  Ours don't quite look like the bat in the video, as Larry had to jog his memory and reverse engineer his sample, in teaching.  But I browsed the video and am pretty sure this is the one.

Luca taught a pyramid.  (David Donahue's model?).

And Brad taught an Arnold Tubis triangle box from a hexagon- 1 of 15 models that will appear in Arnold's next book.

Also a bit of promotion for Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles' monozukuri festival showcasing their most recent exhibit, The Roots of Monozukuri: Creative Spirit in Japanese Automaking.

Jared, Joel, and Brad are participating by representing origami with large scale models. It should run for a few days beginning the first weekend in November.

Sunday Funnies

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Accordionist

Turned my first folded Joisel dwarf/gnome into an accordionist:

Accordion
Created by Hare (ru)
Elephant hide

Matthew Green's Rhombus with a Twist

Just concluded a live feed online origami class with Matthew Green teaching his Rhombase with a twist model. This is a 4-piece version that spins!

Excellent, enjoyable interactive teaching in Spanish and in English!

For future classes, like the page, Origamex.

For Rhombus twist class, tutorial is still available, post-live feed.

Pteranodon

Pteranodon
Created by Fumiaki KAWAHATA
Folded by Michael Sanders 
Square sheet of elephant hide (folded about 8 or more years ago, I don’t remember the size of the paper)
Source: New Origami by Steve and Megumi Biddle

Jang yong ik Tiger

Simply stunning!  Everything about this is perfect:

Jang Yong ik Tiger

Yoo Tae Yong's Iron Man

Very nice:

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Sea Turtle

Designed by Nguyen Ngoc Vu

Folded by Michael Sanders

15" square of elephant hide

Source:  Drawing Origami Tome 1

I'm not completely satisfied with the shell; but don't think I'll be folding this again anytime soon.  Moving on....

Yoshizawa Turtle

Turtle
Created by Akira YOSHIZAWA
Folded by Michael Sanders
6” x 6” square of Daiso store kami

Katsuhisa Yamada's turtles

Creator:  Katsuhisa Yamada
Folded by: Michael Sanders
6” x 6” square of kraft kami with printing (Daiso store)
October 22, 2018

This is such a cute design.  My thanks to Margaret Wong. 

I also discovered another turtle design by Yamada:

Turtle
Created by Katsuhisa YAMADA
Folded by Michael Sanders
6” x 6” square of Daiso kami
Source: NOA magazine issue #324 (Aug 2002)

Sea Turtle by Stephen Weiss

Sea turtle
Creator: Stephen Weiss
Folder:
Michael Sanders
Source: "Origami Zoo" by Robert Lang and Stephen Weiss
From 6” kami.

Can't remember when I folded this; but it was quite a while ago.  I've been on a turtle kick, lately. 

Neige A. Baby Sea Turtle

Baby Sea Turtle

Designed by Neige A.

Folded by Michael Sanders

10" x 10" square of elephant hide

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Enjoyable fold; pretty straight forward.  I love the pleats on the shell.  This and the other one I folded yesterday are kind of a compromise to not spending hours folding a good-looking turtle; yet have a hint of the more complex designs with the scales.

I guessing I'm warming myself up for finally tackling Kamiya's loggerhead sea turtle.  I've started on it; then lost patience and had to take a break (this was a couple months back).  When my head's right, I will sit down and pick up where I left off.

Unknown Sea Turtle

Sea Turtle
Creator: unknown
Folded by Michael Sanders
8” x 8” square of elephant hide
Source: Crease Pattern by Migue Crm 

I was taking time visiting through my blogroll last week to see what's been going on elsewhere; and while catching up on Peter Whitehouse's blog, I stumbled upon this gem.  Apparently, Migue Crm is not the creator; he found it on some Mexican site, I think; and created a CP?  If anyone can identify an author to this, it'd be greatly appreciated.

It has a good look for putting in so little work on the CP and folding. 

Moonwatcher/Dawn of Man

October 16, 2018

Moonwatcher/Dawn of Man

Created by 芦村俊一 Shunichi ASHIMURA

Folded by Michael Sanders 

8" x 8" American foil bonded to lightweight washi or unryu (2 squares)

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The ultimate sci-fi movie.

Maybe I should have folded the Monolith, too?  Haha!

Dwarf using a human-sized violin for a cello

Dwarf

Created by Eric Joisel

Folded by Michael Sanders

30 cm x 30 cm square of elephant hide

Source:  Crease Pattern

Originally, I was going to make this dwarf a violinist; however, I misjudged the size of paper And it ended up too large for a violin; but fortunately about the right size for a cello.  Perhaps a human violin used as a cello for a dwarf-sized creature?  The instrument and bow aren't glued to the hands (yet); they're just balanced for the camera shot.

Cello/violin

Designed by Eric Joisel/Alexander Kurth

Folded by Michael Sanders

5 cm x 30 cm tissue foil

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This is my third Eric Joisel dwarf (other two were folded several years ago- 2013?). 

Picaruelo's Origami was helpful, to an extent.  Collapsing the crease pattern was challenging for me (moreso than the basic dwarf cp I folded before) and eventually I abandoned trying to follow the CP and just went with what made sense.

This one will be my first musician; and I may try my hand at folding an entire orchestra. I’ve found my motivation on getting back into folding some dwarves.

I spread working on the model out over the course of 3 days, from folding the crease pattern to final shaping last night.

Sunday Funnies

Unicorn related to the Montroll classic horse

Unicorn 

Designed by: John Montroll, Terry Hall, Po-Tei, Michael Sanders

Folded by Michael Sanders 

10” x 10” square of American foil paper

This was folded about 10 years ago or more. It’s essentially the Montroll classic horse with a modification to the dog base to get extra paper to form the horn.

It’s not the most elegant of unicorn designs. Essentially, it’s something Terry Hall described to me and I developed from there, based on his remembrance of how Po-Tei achieved a base to fold a unicorn out of the Montroll horse.

Jo Nakashima's Feathered Crane

Origami Feathered Crane

Designed by Jo Nakashima

Folded by Michael Sanders

30 cm x 30 cm square of beautiful paper from Kathy Stevick (a duo-colored red-gold wrapping paper from Jillson Roberts, according to her).

Kathy was kind enough to send me a roll of paper, just out of the blue, unsolicited.  Thank you, Kathy, for your generosity!  I will make beautiful art from the paper.


You can make your own here.

Reshaping

A little makeover....

I wasn't satisfied with the neck and figured I could position the arm and bow a little better.

A Coy Koi

Carp

Designed by Robert Lang

Folded by Michael Sanders

At Westcoast Origami Guild

6” x 6” square of Japanese foil paper

Found this last week while cleaning. I folded this at WCOG when Ben Muller taught it (2005?  2006?). I’m thinking he learned it from Dr. Lang (so whatever year that may have been in which Robert taught it) and committed it to memory (this was before diagrams came out and before “Origami Design Secrets” was published).

One day, I would like to fold one and incorporate the scales. On the bucket list...

Dollar Enterprise

Does anyone recognize the designer and model?  I folded this quite a while ago and do not remember source or author; or make.

Here's one by Perry Bailey.

Here's one I folded by Won Park.  Note the special serial number on the dollar bill.

Won Park's fighter jet

This is one of the first models I folded of Won Park's, back around 2002.  I think that may have been our first OUSA convention?

Joel Bauer is the one who was responsible for putting Won in touch with the origami community and setting his sights to venture to NYC for the convention.

Joel met Won while vacation in Hawaii.  Won, at the time, was a street artist.  When Joel returned back to Los Angeles, he raved about this origami artist he had met.  I thought he might have been exaggerating, since this was a guy no one had ever heard of.  Joel brought back some of Won's amazing work.  Won was a lone folder who soon became known to the community after OUSA.  Joel helped convince both Won and myself to attend our first origami convention.


                                 From L to R: Michael Sanders, Won Park, Vernon IsaacPhoto by Susan Dugan, OUSA 2002

Venom

Venom Mask

Created by Li Lianhua

Folded by Michael Sanders

10” x 10” square of tissue/Japanese foil paper

(Nope. Haven’t seen the movie).

October Origami for Fun

Joe wasn't feeling well this weekend; so no Joe.

I arrived around 2pm (starts at 1pm) and was the last to leave, aside from Marti's friend Margot.

Brought a show-and-tell item:

I taught Marti and Jim Cowling Peter Keller's star puff box from a hexagon.  I also began working on the feathered crane (finished it at home).

Photo from Ginger

As usual, I swung through Gardena to pick up dinner- chili hot dog over rice and spam musubi. Don't know the name of the place- advertises as Hawaiian.  Their spam musubi is delicious because they sprinkle furikake on them.

More photos here.