Pentagonal Rose

Name	Pentagonal Rose
Designer	Naomiki Sato (さと  なおみき)
Level of Difficulty (5x ☻= hardest)	☻☻☻☻
Type (According to Number of Sheets Used)	Single-sheet
Type (According to Object being Presented)	Flower
Diagrams	Something about Naomiki Sato + link to diagram
Video Tutorial	Part 1 (Tutorial by Kade Chan)  Part 2 (Tutorial by Kade Chan) Part 3 (Tutorial by Kade Chan) Calyx (Tutorial by Kade Chan)  Tutorial by Tadashi Mori)

I must say...this model really destroyed my fingers before I totally got the hang of it. It took me a thousand tries before I noticed that the mistake I keep on making that led to disasters is actually very obvious and dumb. But, once I was able to get the hang of it, I could not help but make more.

This origami rose really captivated my attention because this model looks more realistic than most of the other rose models (though there might be something more realistic out there). It even comes with this five-point calyx with a conical tab which fits into a hole at the bottom of the flower.

(Did you make this flower? Post it on Yey!Origami's Facebook page!)

-ABonymous

Asian Elephant

Name	Asian Elephant
Designer	John Szinger
Level of Difficulty (5x ☻= hardest)	☻☻☻
Type (According to Number of Sheets Used)	Singular Sheet
Type (According to Object being Presented)	Animal
Diagrams	Origami Animal Sculptures (John Szinger)
Video Tutorial	Origami Animal Sculptures (Free CD with book by John Szinger)

Represented here is the Asian Elephant, the less majestic cousin of the African Elephant (kidding). This is designed by John Szinger, an amazing artist and the author of the lovely yet horribly expensive book (for me) stated above. (I sacrificed my last allowance from school to buy that book!)

The Asian or Asiatic Elephant (Elephas maximus) is distributed from India to Borneo. It is slightly smaller than the African Elephant. The species, the only species in the genus Elephans is considered endangered.

If you have folded this model, do not hesitate posting a photo of your work to the blog's Facebook page!

-ABonymous

Leafy Dance

Name	Leafy Dance
Designer	Alexander Kurth
Level of Difficulty (5x ☻= hardest)	☻☻☻☻
Type (According to Number of Sheets Used)	Singular Sheet
Type (According to Object being Presented)	Plant (Leaves), Probably more Abstract
Diagrams	Crease Pattern by Alexander Kurth
Video Tutorial	Tutorial by Alexander Kurth

This origami model, representing two leaves swirling around each other, is shaped usually with a paper clip or something to hold the little strip of paper in the middle. However, if you do not want anything holding the paper during presentation (like me pfft) is to use paper made for "wetfolding" wherein you use water to shape the model. (I have not tried it yet since the diversity of the paper industry here is ridiculous.) You could also do the thing I did: use a paper clip and then leave the paper clip attached to it so that the model will be held in place over storage time, and then the clip can be removed during presentation. (It will slowly lose form though once nothing holds it.)

This model uses a certain crease pattern (see link above) which, when sculpted, the paper naturally falls into the supposed shape you see above. This can be kind of tricky since some parts of the paper can be a bit (?) stubborn. Therefore, you should be really accurate in folding the crease pattern.

Good luck in creating this! d(^ _ ^)b
Post it on Yey! Origami's Facebook page once you make it! I'll be looking forward to see it! (For the meantime let me vomit for seeing the old posts I made on this blog.)

-ABonymous