While we all are on quarantine, there is a surge in origami book demand. Especially origami for kids. As I am also staying at home I decided to write (finally) about the kids’ books. Thing is… half of origami for children books on amazon are either fake or pirated. But let’s have a closer look! If …
Or rather to say dark secrets of the people who teach you how to grow instagram. Many of us do wonderful art. And many of us reasonably ask why we (some of us) don’t get following we deserve. And that is a valid question. At the same time I am bombarded by lots of ads …
This origami exhibition is happening now (and is open till 18th of May) in Lotusland, Montecito CA. Lotusland Lotusland is an amazing botanic garden, established by Ganna Walska in Montecito CA. The garden has gorgeous Cactus, Succulent and Lotus collections. When I say gorgeous, I mean that. It’s the most impressive collection of cactuses I’ve ever …
I am very happy to present you the new book about… yay! curved folding by Jun Mitani that was recently published in English(yay!) by CRC-press. The Curved-Folding Origami design. You can buy it on CRC-press website or at amazon. This book was first published in Japanese. Finally we can enjoy the English version! Because the …
I am really happy to recommend you the new origami tessellationbook by Ilan Garibi. – this was the short version, so if you are already convinced to buy it, read no further 🙂 There are several origami tessellation books out there. However some of the books, are not for everyone. Ilan’s book is intended for …
As you know I just published my fourth origami book: Floral Origami (buy the book at amazon) recently. I have so much to say, that I can’t limit myself with short social media posts 🙂 Here I am with my wall of text. What is in this origami book? I included the whole range of …
My PhD mentor always encouraged me to pursue mathematical studies even after I finish the PhD. He meant differential equations of course. Until he has seen my spiral paper foldings. Once he told me my origami is cooler than differential equations. I hope he’s proud of me, since I’ve got Honorable mention award at American …
I recently started posting to instagram (@ekaterina.lukasheva). You’re invited 🙂 And I hope to have more short videos of origami tessellations compared to photographs. Because I finally understood that people do not perceive how cool it is when only given one frontal image of origami. Technology finally approached me 😉 New #origami #tessellation with a …
Along with pre painting origami paper with acrylic paint, I use spray post painting. Usually after the model is done. I like this technique for many reasons: It allows to completely change the color of the origami paper. Sometimes I fold some test fold from some bright colored origami paper and it comes out so …
You may heard about people using some very complex tools for their origami. While they would tell you their methods in general, there are still a lot of obscurity around the topic. Let’s talk about vinyl cutters, also known as CNC-cutters or even as novel scrapbooking tools. How does vinyl cutter or scrapbooking correspond to …