The “Hare and the Tortoise” have a lot to do with what I was involved in today: Our school had their inter-house cross country run. I was the far checkpoint and saw some hares and a LOT of tortoises – you get that, they are teenage boys after all. This lovely turtle caught my eye […]
When our kids were little, we holidayed at Mon Repos near Bundaberg to watch the annual turtle egg laying and hatching. This model reminds me of the lovely little turtle hatchlings we watched, in the still of the night, emerge from their underground clutch and waddle clumsily towards the ocean. In truth they were about […]
A deceptively simple model – much work is done underneath to form the shell, legs etc. I might look for a better turtle later, but this is a worthy first reptile.
I love a good modular, and this little charmer uses a module not completely unlike “the little turtle” combined to form a rather lovely cube-like thing: I decided to use wood-grain paper, and the result looks like the work of a woodie with way more time on their hands than is healthy.
Origami cats are hard – their soft elastic ways are difficult to depict artistically with a medium as stiff and uniform as paper: This is Christophe Boudias’ “Sleepy Cat”, a lovely model that I think manages to capture the posture of a cat that is cuddling up ready to sleep, tucking it’s little pawsies under its […]
