New Origami Designs

     Recently, I designed two more origami models, a dragon and a statue of liberty. I plan to submit these to OrigamiUSA's Origami by Children (OBC) gallery, which you can check out here. I've written about OBC quite a bit in the past, so I won't be going on extensively here. Basically, OBC is a gallery of origami models folded by children of 18 years or younger. They usually select around 50 models from worldwide. It is all in all a great gallery, and I encourage you to check it out, be it online or at an exhibition.

     The first model I folded was a dragon of my own design. It's similar to another dragon I made before, but I made a few changes. The first version was created from a bird base that had been strip grafted down the diagonal. The second version was still made from a strip grafted bird base, but this time, two sides of the paper had been strip grafted as well.

Dragon 1.0

Dragon 2.0

     The result of the extra strip grafting is the second version has large wings, and a longer tail, which allows for more details.

    The other model I designed, a statue of liberty, is made from box pleats. It has a color change effect in it's design, but unfortunately, I don't have double backed paper of the colors I want right now. So that's why the entire model is green. When I was folded it for the first time (and only) time, I screwed up the proportions, so the pedestal is larger than it should be.

Statue of Liberty

    That's it for today, see you next time!