origami squirrel
My model for Day 2 of World Origami Days! Designed and folded by me, from one uncut 10″ square of typical origami paper, white on one side and gray on the other. I’m still trying to nail down the design for the head. I want to be sure I have it right, before I use the sheet of exquisite and expensive paper I bought from Origamido to fold one of these… The color change on the stomach was suggested by Michael LaFosse.
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About Fr Matthew Green
Currently parochial vicar at Holy Family Parish, on Cape Ann (serving the churches of St. Ann, St. Joachim, and St. Anthony). I moved to the area in early August '11, and am very happy to be in such a welcoming community and beautiful location!
One of my hobbies is photography. You can see my photos
on Flickr and buy prints of some of them
on Fine Art America.
I am a daily contributor to
GoodMorningGloucester (GMG for short), a blog by and about the community of Gloucester specifically and Cape Ann in general. The content is diverse, ranging from the beautiful and sublime to the earthy and occasionally offensive. I hope my contributions are of the former kind, not the latter. So, while I cannot endorse all the content that is posted there, I am grateful to Joey (the founder and admin of the blog) for giving me space to make my contribution.
I also have my own blog,
Perpetual Learner, which mostly includes my homilies and some re-posts from GMG, but also sometimes has other content, such as my personal reflections, videos I like, etc.
I’m pretty impressed.
Thanks!
Wow, I’m always so jealous of people able to make their own designs so easily. How did you learn to be able to design your own origami? I’ve always wanted to be able to myself, but can never quite wrap my mind around the folds of the paper to be able to understand how to create what I want without instructions.
It looks great by the way.
Thanks! Creating one’s own designs is often NOT easy. How did I learn? Largely by experimentation, and by imitation of techniques used in existing models. Robert Lang also has a great book on “Origami Design Secrets” that has helped me with some of my models. (I have the first edition, but I hope to get the second edition eventually.)