Ducks and Drakes usually are different – apart from gender, the drake is usually the pretty one, a quite common convention in the bird world:
Each model is folded from a sheet of the same paper, one the reverse of the other to create the different plumage patterns.
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.
Continue readingNow I stumbled across this recipe for a snail, only problem was all the instructions were in Thai:
Quite by coincidence, we are having home-cooked Thai tonight (I make a mean beef and basil) but NOT cooked with snails
So I gave it a whirl – in the end I had to work from the way diagrams looked, think I nailed it, difficult to tell – this snail has a lovely shell, head/feelers and foot – quite my favorite mollusc so far
I really like how the shell becomes 3d, with some tweaking and some textured paper this would be really beautiful (well, as beautiful as a snail can be at least)
