Ducks and Drakes usually are different – apart from gender, the drake is usually the pretty one, a quite common convention in the bird world:
![Shiri Daniel's Ducks](https://i0.wp.com/www.wonko.info/365origami/wp-content/uploads/1033ShiriDucks.jpg?resize=764%2C437)
Each model is folded from a sheet of the same paper, one the reverse of the other to create the different plumage patterns.
![Shiri Daniel's Ducks view](https://i0.wp.com/www.wonko.info/365origami/wp-content/uploads/1033ShiriDucksView.jpg?resize=764%2C646)
A lovely fold sequence is really efficient, so entirely achievable using 15cm origami paper (I have so much of this, and rarely use it). I decided on some teal-ish Yuzen, and the results are lovely.
![Shiri Daniel's Ducks development](https://i0.wp.com/www.wonko.info/365origami/wp-content/uploads/1033ShiriDucksDev-scaled.jpg?resize=455%2C2560)
I know I need to fold this more – the volume of body and head are lovely and take gentle treatment that I am only a little way across so far, but I can see how it works. The central flap either becomes a curled tail feather or the feet of the standing duck – I must experiment more with the postures of both to make them more natural.
![Shiri Daniel's Ducks scale](https://i0.wp.com/www.wonko.info/365origami/wp-content/uploads/1033ShiriDucksScale.jpg?resize=764%2C573)
Designed by Shiri Daniel, the diagrams are sort of clear, but have Israeli annotations, meaning I have to guess at some of the shaping – a fun exercise none the less.
Lovely Peter, preeety… 😀
Just Lovely!