Rose

Uses color-change and curved folds. An article is available on OrigamiUSA’s website. Also, a video tutorial on YouTube will guide you through the folding steps.

Published in OrigamiUSA The Fold, Issue 82, May – June 2024

Playful Fish

Easy and enjoyable to fold, the Playful Fish folding sequence ends with a tail-locking step, which works by hiding three flaps in three pockets.

Published in Origami USA The Fold N80 (2024)

Perching Parrot

This parrot has strong claws. Thus, it can perch in various positions. It can perch on different types of vases. The folding sequence has some tricky steps, explained in the YouTube tutorials below.

Published in Pajarita N165 (2023) and in OrigamiUSA 2024 Origami Collection

Pumpkin Ghost

This playful model, when folded from red-black paper, yields a ghost with a Jack-O-Lantern head. Great origami play, and theater, and Halloween!

(Diagrams available)

Note to self: show other ghosts in the carousel, the elephant ghost, dracula ghost, clown ghost, and pharaoh gost

Published in:
2021 – PAJARITA (issue 155, page 45)

Pregnancy

Representational and slightly abstract, this work accentuates the delicate nature of pregnancy and celebrates women.

Published in:
2022 – ORISON (vol 28/#3, pages 14-15)
2019 – PAJARITA (issue 149, page 16)

Ladybug Owlita

This model is a ladybug on one side, owl – on the other!

When folded from red-black paper, the owl side has a black head and feet just above the folded wings. The ladybug side has a black abdomen showing between the wing shields.

Paint the spots on the ladybug!

(Diagram available)

Published in:
2022 – ORISON (vol 28/#3, page 18)

Wind

Here, I combine folded origami flowers with a tulip tree branch to generate a mixed-media artwork.