What a wonderful bird is a Pelican, whose beak can hold more than it’s belly can:
This elegant model by Ligia Montoya comes from “Secrets of Origami” by Robert Harbin. Relatively few folds, indicitave of form, nice and simple.
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77: Robin
Robins and Wrens are lovely little birds, stickey-uppey tail, tiny and delicate:
Quite happy with this model, taken from “More Origami” by Robert Harbin, a book I bought years ago.
This is a fairly manageable manipulation of the bird base but the legs are so tortuously thin that I had to help it stand up with a couple of blutac blobs under the feet, soz.
56: Wise Owl
I like this fold, the eyes, winds, body shape all work, not bad for a first fold:
Why an Owl? Well, being surrounded by so many wonderful (and wise) QSITE members past, present and future reminded me of the wisdom we all rely on – to me, wisdom is an owl (tissue thin justification I know but there you go). Also, against all wisdom, QSITE have me on their board again, editor of their Journal – silly fools, surely they have learned better by now?
53: A Duck
I have lots of designs for birds, but up until now not one that I was happy enough to call a duck – this one is lovely:
It has a nice plump (roastable) body, cute tail, nicely mallard-y head and bill.
You can try it too: duck
37: A Kiwi
New Zealand has a national day celebrated variously but often on the 6th February called “Waitangi Day”. One of the species endemic to that place is a small, nocturnal and alltogether odd flightless bird called a Kiwi:
A very difficult model on a bunch of levels, designed by Roman Diaz. The feet were fascinating, and made from straight edges crumped into 3 toes each (curiously a Kiwi has 3 toes/claws on each foot it uses for digging with). Amazed with this first time fold as I was convinced it was going pear-shaped at a number of junctures.
I had to cheat with a couple of blobs of blutac under the feet to get it to stay upright for the photo, the balance is a bit out of whack. I would prefer the models to be free-standing but you get that sometimes; very happy with the body shape (morphology) however, clever.
You can have a go yourself (good luck understanding the person doing the tut, swarthy Latino accent and directions are unclear) kiwi
34: A Bantam Rooster
When I was a kid, we had chooks – poulets that were egg layers in a pen in the back yard of our country farmhouse. It was decided that we needed a Rooster to keep the chickens happy so we bought a black Bantam for the job (later nicknamed Mussolini because he turned out to be a control freak psychook*):
This Model reminds me of the stature of young, brave, cock-sure Mussolini. His incessant crowing was the reason that he became a quite decent casserole not too far into his hen-servicing career.
*Chooks that are tiny seem to have inflated opinions of their own ability – Mussolini would charge and fly at your face, scare the dogs and generally terrorize all other forms of life (including alienating himself from the hens he was supposed to be special friends to).
Why a chook? Well, in choir today the choir master asked us to do all manner of coordinated movements and vocalisations (including crowing of a cockerel) all of which I more or less completely failed to do correctly, yay me!
25: Chook
Many contemporary folders have changed the face of Origami – Florence Temko is one such paper artist – this remarkably simple model is very chook-like and contains very few folds
Thanks @ackygirl for the lend of the book with this design in it – it is labelled “Rooster” but I have other models that are more “cock-a-doodle-doo” than this one, so I have labelled it a chook for now.
Arrgh, should know better than to edit a published post, the DATE of this post was yesterday, had to recreate it because wordpress plunged this post into “scheduled” mode and therefore it was not visible in the timeline – I did not cheat, you can trust me
18: Twitter Bird
…so you gotta imagine this is blue (an unimagined limitation to my original white rule, doh!), the shape is fairly faithfully the twitter logo – tricky to get the head and feet angles/proportions right, and some thick folding through the body here
You too can fold your own twitter bird: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r38S8fjDUN0 … you know you want to
9: Pigeon
An interesting fold and the bird has a posture as in flight, difficult to photograph, soz.
Folded whilst in Victoria, on the Great Ocean Road.
8: Seagull
A nice model (particularly pleased with the body/tail) that is difficult to photograph, as someone pointed out to me the proportions are more Albatross-like than seagullish, but there you go.
Folded whilst in Victoria, on the Great Ocean Road.
1: Peacock
One sheet of paper, rectangle 2×1, folded prior to this project started but the inspiration for it so it is a fitting first
I like this model as the tail is fully articulated – it stands up as a display for the male peacock. Folded during a particularly boring exam supervision (whilst still being vigilant)