Can’t fold, busy:
Remarkably I have never blogged this model. Continue reading
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635: (85/365) Earth Hour
Last night (25th March) was Earth Hour. Between 8:30 and 9:30pm we turned off our lights:
I decided to try and fold something by torchlight … great plan Einstein. Continue reading
632: (82/365) Spiral Snail
Inspired by the work of Tomoko Fuse, I began experimenting with a square and using most of it to do a spiral. Initially I tried even divisions but found a more logarithmic progression from wide to narrow worked best:
Using alternating mountains and valleys, a lovely spiral emerged and there was enough paper to fashion a head, antennae and foot. Continue reading
628: (78/365) Little Plane
Another paper plane – this one a lot like a single propeller Cesna:
An interesting fold, thankfully executed with thin paper (a sheet of purple hand-made washi from Daiso) Continue reading
626: (76/365) Little Snail
Spirals have most recently been explored by Tomoko Fuse, but lovely spiral shail shells have existed in traditional origami for a long while before that:
This is Eduardo Clemente’s snail, well, one of them. As a bi-colour model it cleverly manages the 2 colours ensuring the soft slippy bit of the snail is one colour and the rounded spiral of the shell is the reverse. Continue reading