Happy Chinese New Year!

I folded this for my mom on Christmas Day (2018).

Created by Ronald Koh
Folded from 10” square of elephant hide
Diagrams: AEP Convention 2011

Year of the Bacon

Happy Chinese New Year!

This was a quick fold this afternoon:

Did not get the proportions right; nor am I satisfied with the plate (design is by Stefan Delecat).  I will fold this again properly with eggs sunnyside up and a full set of silverware.

My Mother

Masae Sanders (on the right) engaged in the traditional Japanese art of folding cranes

My dad brought photo albums from their Colorado home to their home in Penn Valley so that I could go through and scan them into digital form (I drove up here for Thanksgiving).

I found this one of my mom (on the right) doing origami! We don't know the year, location, or why she was doing it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But there she goes.

My first introduction to origami was when I was 8 years old, vacationing in Japan, as I occasionally did during the summertime.  My cousins started me off with simple sonobe cube box, masu box (I was really into folding nesting boxes- about 50 packed into one!), cranes, and other traditional models.

I folded those on-and-off all through my life into adulthood.  I only discovered modern origami around 1999/2000.

Stefan Delecat's Crane Box

Crane Box

Designed by Stefan Delecat

Folded by Michael Sanders 

Lid and bottom container each folded from 19.5” x 19.5” square of Chiyogami or Washi paper bonded to foil paper (the lid got really thick on the lip portion).

Source: Tanteidan convention book volume 10

Happy Thanksgiving!

Holiday Roast
Created by Michael Assis
Folded by Michael Sanders
6” x 6” square of Japanese foil paper bonded onto...I don’t know what kind of paper

Source: https://www.facebook.com/michael.p.assis/posts/10100300908370803

Tray designed by Mr. Satoshi TAKAGI
4” square of kami
Source: NOA Kessakusen2

Traditional Models

Some of these models I've never folded before.  I got a call requesting 5-10 traditional models for some fashion ad last Thursday, originally to be due Friday; but they ended up being picked up on Saturday.

Petty Samurai

Samurai
Designed by Dave Petty
Folded by Michael Sanders 
6” x 1.5” rectangle (1:4)
Source: BOS Convention 2000

Thank you, Andrew Hans.

Giveaways!

Folded by Joe Hamamoto

The swan-shaped receptacles were folded by me years ago- found in the 2002 May issue #321 of NOA.  Designed by Mr. Kazukuni ENDO. 

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.

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

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

Source

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)

Source

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

Source

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.