We visited Cape Otway Lighthouse, there in the underbrush was a small, wet rabbit – very cute, so I thought it would be a good model to make. Difficult (and I had to cheat with a cut to make the 2 lobes of the ears) – might search out another rabbit model that does not […]
Francesco Massimo sent me a diagram, out of the blue, for me to try – such an honour: I have labelled it a “Danger Noodle” – it is an Eastern Dragon, but it looks way too playful to be dangerous. Folded as a set of nested rabbit-ears straddling a central pleated gusset, the structure is […]
Insects seem to be a fascination among origami designers – at the height of “bug wars” when designers were competing for the most intricate designs that were complex, had lots of legs, were thin and realistic renderings and really pushed the boundaries of existing techniques: This astonishing model starts as a frog base. Through a […]
I went looking for something reptilian to fold today (not sure why) and found this little charmer designed by Marc Vigo: Using a series of rabbit ears on a 2×1 rectangle, you isolate legs, head and tail rather cleverly.
Old-school origami can still be fun, and this model is no exception: Eduardo Clemente’s book “Papiroflexia” contains a plethora of old-style 60’s origami, before the boxpleating, tree-maker days.
