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.

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.

Feathered Crane

October 24, 2018

Feathered Crane

Created by Riccardo Foschi

Folded by Michael Sanders

Elephant hide

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I finally get to ✔ this one off my bucket list! A little messy; but that's me.

Methyl Cellulose and lots of clamps were applied as the paper layers got a bit thick

Star Puff Box

Since doing Beth Johnson's acorn, I'm starting to like folding hexagons.  I've avoided it because I'm a bit lazy at cutting out hexagon shapes from squares- I don't know why, but I feel like I'm wasting paper by cutting away the unessentials.  :-P

Anyway, I folded this last week:

Tutorial by Sara Adams:




This one by Ilan Garibi:

Sunday Funnies

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Hello, Cute Origami!

So....

I am cool and secure enough in my masculinity to post and share this.

Yes, I folded Hello Kitty. What’cha gonna do about it, huh?

Cutie Cat
Designed by Marc Kirschenbaum
Folded by Michael Sanders
10” x 10” square of tissue/Japanese foil paper
Source: Tanteidan convention book 15

Ribbon Kitty 

Designed by Michelle Fung

Folded by Michael Sanders

10” x 10” square of Japanese foil paper backed with some sort of mulberry paper?

Source: Tanteidan book 22

Happy Mail!

This arrived for me last Tuesday:

It took me a while to renew my subscription; but the good thing about Tanteidan is that you can subscribe anytime and receive all the magazines within the year's volume. 

NOA, on the other hand, I have yet to renew, and am kind of bummed I've let so many issues elapse.

Sometimes you feel like a nut...

Acorn
Created by Beth Johnson
Folded by Michael Sanders
Approximately 7-8” hexagon (lid) and circle (body). Elephant hide.

Folded just over a week ago. I don’t have a whole lot of experience folding from atypical shapes (hexagons, circles) nor in folding tessellations. So this was kind of a new challenge for me. I did enjoy the process of folding the hex tessellation (Eric Gjerde) portion of the model. The underside in particular looks beautiful to me.

This has been on my bucket list since at least 2013. I’m happy to finally check it off. But I’m not satisfied with this first effort and may fold it again someday.

David Brill Horse

October 6, 2018

Horse

Created by David Brill

Folded by Michael Sanders

Folded from (almost) 25” equilateral triangle

Not sure what kind of paper

Diagrams: BRILLiant Origami

This is probably only the third Brill horse I’ve folded. The first one many moons ago was a mess and became an origami basketball for the waste basket. The second one was my Sea Biscuit composition (Brill’s horse and rider for the fox hunt. See here. I decided to fold this one for my Brill St. George and the Dragon. I’ve been using a cheat by incorporating Montroll’s classic horse for the knight’s war steed. But yesterday decided I wanted a full Brill composition.

The Montroll horse remains my favorite mostly because it’s quick and easy for me with a good shaping look to it for the amount of work involved. It was the model that inspired me, when I saw Terry Hall fold one for a girl at my first Westcoast Origami meeting. But along with that, was Brill’s horse. That too inspired me to pursue origami as a little bit more than just a casual pastime when I saw his book, Brilliant Origami along with Montroll and Lang, at the Borders bookstore. This was around 2001-2002. Before that, I had never seen modern origami or anything so much more complex than traditional models. And the cover on Brill’s book of St George and the Dragon was whoa-inspiring.

I love the look of the Brill horse (especially the other classic horse of his for which I don’t believe there are diagrams made available); but I’m one of those origamists that’s been a bit lazy to cut and fold from anything other than squares and rectangles. Plus I think the Brill horse is a bit challenging to get the shaping just right. I had to refold the hind legs on this one a couple of times as the body looked a bit too short; then I overcompensated and made the body too long. Finally, I hit the Goldilocks zone and am satisfied with this model.

Now to go unearth my St George and the Dragon from storage boxes in the garage somewhere and retire the Montroll warhorse.

My fear is that I may have to redo a new knight because I think he may be too large to sit atop this Brill horse.

Old composition

V'Ann Cornelius' Right Angle Support Shelf

November 3, 2007 at the Aquarium of the Pacific

Need display shelves for your origami?  And want to make them yourself out of paper? 

V'Ann Cornelius created quite a number of display stands and shelves (if you attend PCOC or OUSA conventions, the model menu displays are more than likely V'Ann's designs; and sometimes also found in the exhibition room to help highlight model displays). 

These are shelves I folded and used 11 years ago, using poster tape to hang them up on the wall.  Diagrams are found in OUSA's The Paper, issue #92.

Sunday Funnies

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Standing Jack