On the the pleasures (there are many) of visiting Japan at the moment is the onset of spring, and the flowering of cherry blossom trees:
I remember vividly the glorious show, in colours from deep red to white/lemon, trees around Kyoto and Miyajima being particularly lovely. Continue reading
Now I must admit for model 100 of the current 365, to starting this mode before we went on holidays, but left it barely started as it has taken me an age to decrypt the directions for folding it:
This lovely, plucky little dragon needs much bigger paper. Teasing the details and final shaping at this scale is torture. Continue reading
I am such a fan of David Brill’s work:
His command of seemingly impossible geometry is complimented by the works of Francis Ow, the designer of the other “Double Cube” I have folded – a torturous skeletal structure. Continue reading
It is rare that a simple bit of geometry is so lovely but this floral pot combines glorious proportion and an efficient use of the sheet:
A simple(ish) twirl causes the vase shape. I must work out how to fold this without the pre-creasing scars as I think this would look beautiful in large format hand-made paper. Continue reading
Small, delicious crustaceans abound all over the world, in Australia we have the Yabbie:
Found in freshwater dams, billabongs and rivers, yabbies are treasured as an Australian bush tucker. Continue reading
Artists would be familiar with the the following model:
This is Guillome Denis’ “Paint Tube”, a lovely bicolour model that has a style and movement to it. Continue reading
A model I had mastered as a child was the only Peacock I had seen folded until fairly recently:
This is Edwin Corrie’s Peacock, a magic little model that makes a tight efficient little body out of one corner of the square leaving lots of paper for the fan-shaped tail. Continue reading
While in regional Victoria, in the vicinity of the Macedon Ranges, it seemed wrong to leave Hanging Rock off our agenda. Back in the 70’s, there was an important Australian movie made called “Picnic at Hanging Rock”:
A fiction/mystery, it involved the mysterious disappearance of some school girls at the rock, after they had a picnic. We visited, climbed and were not lost, thankfully, but by sheer coincidence we visited on the 50th anniversary of the book, and also by good chance they were filming a mini-serialisation of the same story in the woods we walked through.
Australia do not really have bears, well, nothing that is actually a bear but this charming model needed to be folded so folded it I did:
This is Edwin Corrie’s Square Bear, a charming model that is relatively simple but demonstrative of form. Continue reading
This fold was folded on our 34th wedding anniversary, chosen because a long and happy relationship is not reliant on luck:
This dice is clever is a little obscure – rather than traditional dots each face has a partial coverage of colour.
I recently was on holiday in regional Victoria, and have a few models as “catch-up”:
Our holiday digs were near a lake, rich in bird life. Continue reading
Now I for one like stellated geometry – taking regular solids and adding pointy things is very satisfying:
The pointy things on this solid are rhomboid – so not strictly regular pyramidal but 4-sided none the less. Continue reading
I am sure dinosaurs were not cute – not even baby ones as they were snappy wild beasts:
The little purple beauty is designed by Issei Yoshino and is a lovely exercise in colour management. Continue reading
Can’t fold, busy:
Remarkably I have never blogged this model. Continue reading
Currently, North Queensland is being beaten up by Cyclone “Debbie”:
Australian cyclones are huge. As weather systems go, we do them big down under and “Debbie” was once a category 4 (which is nearly Category 5, for the folks at home) which on a scale of “is that a cloud” to “fuck, most of my town is missing” is right up there. I hope all in the storm zone are safe, having lived through some pretty harrowing cyclones in my time it is not fun. Continue reading
