1118: Riccardo Foschi’s “Human Bust”

I virtually attended OWM4 (Origami World Marathon 4) recently – one of the classes I attended in the wee hours of the morning was a workshop run by Riccardo Foschi: Riccardo has a recognisable style and his models are a delight to fold (you will find lots of them in this blog). This stylised human […]

1092: Riccardo Foschi’s “Frog/Toad”

Few origami designers design, present and then release CPs, diagrams and tutorials for their work like Riccardo Foschi: When I saw his newly designed frog 2 days ago, I was hoping for there to be a tutorial or CO soon, his tutorial dropped yesterday and I knew I had to fold it. I used a […]

1059: Riccardo Foschi’s “Gnome on the shelf”

One of many benefits of being a member of Origami USA (OUSA) has been the “Origami Connect” online classes program. For Christmas, members were treated to a free workshop with Riccardo Foschi, who taught his delightful “Sitting Gnome”: Due to the tyranny of international timezones, their 1pm EST workshop meant I had to join them […]

Riccardo Foschi’s “Mushu” – revisited

I have discovered I a very low tolerance of boredom, I neeeeeed to be doing something most of the time. When my students are doing assignment work I make myself available for consultancy and need tasks I can drop in an instant so I can help them – origami is often my goto: This is […]

1011: Foschi’s “Gecko”

I had a 12cm square of thin crisp Kraft and decided to try the Riccardo Foschi CP for his gecko. This required a 32 square grid, making resultant pleats 4mm or less each: I figured this was a good test of my accuracy, and found it quite relaxing but fiddly with my nerve-damaged hands. I […]