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I’ve got a bunch of origami masks available on Etsy Click on image to go to my Etsy store Click on image to go to my Etsy store Click on image to go to my Etsy store Some are older designs and some new but all feature finishes with enamels that create some interesting surfaces. It is almost impossible to capture the effects in photographs unfortunately since the iridescent glazes change in different lighting and angles ..read more

Just posted some new masks on Etsy, featuring new variations on warrior faces with crested Hellenic helmets, corrugations and curlicue beards. Menelaus Gold Dragoon ..read more

I’m always looking for new ways to finish my origami. Lately I’ve been playing around with some solvent-based paints which I’ve used to create effects that make the paper look more like glazed ceramic. I’ve never worked with these type of enamel paints before and I’ve gone through a lot of trial and error (mostly error) to figure out how I can use them to their best effect. I’ve had at least three that I think worked pretty well, and they are available for sale on my Etsy site click on image to go to my Etsy store Click on image to go to my Etsy store   Click on image to go to my Ets ..read more

The Origami House is a new museum of origami in the works in historic Colonia del Sacramento in southern Uruguay, just across the mouth of the Rio de la Plata from Buenos Aires. Maybe not the first place you’d think of when you think of origami, but a more beautiful site you would be hard pressed to find. And besides, Japan already has an origami museum; Spain has the EMOZ , Escuela Museo Origami Zaragoza – but this may be the first museum in the Americas dedicated solely to paperfolding. The fledgling endeavor has an Indiegogo account set up to accept donations ..read more

click on image to go to my Etsy shop I’ve got some new masks available for sale in my Etsy shop. There are three that have just returned from the Masqalors show in Quebec (those would be the aforementioned “not so new masks” although they are only a little more worldly for their recent trip across the border). You may also find three new variations that I’ve been working in the last month or two. The new masks feature techniques of “origami corrugation” to create interesting decorative patterns. new Helios mask I’ve used a band of corrugation as a decorative motif across the top of th ..read more

  If you happen to be around Saint-Camille, Quebec, next week drop by the biennial Masq’alors! festival. It’s a festival of masks going on from May 28 through June 7. Traditional masks, exotic masks, fantastical masks, theatrical masks and even a few origami masks. Yes, some of my own masks will be there too. If you have an opportunity, don’t miss it! The festival is an event started by the Productions des paysages éclatés, a group of creative people dedicated to promoting and celebrating artistic expression and culture in everyday life through events like Masq’alors! (the exclamation ..read more

Click on image to see Etsy shop I’ve been working on something new lately. These are small origami tessellations, 10-12 cm. wide, folded from hexagons of simple bond-weight colored paper. The difference is in the finishing. After they’re folded, I saturate the paper with a one to one mix of melted beeswax and damar resin. This is a traditional basis for encaustic painting, but without pigments it makes the  the paper translucent. The mix also makes the origami rigid and durable. The beeswax keeps the object from becoming too brittle and the damar resin raises the melting point of the wa ..read more

I’ve spent most of the last month working out the kinks in a particular new mask design. Once I get an idea in my head I tend go over it again and again until I’m either satisfied I’ve found the best solution or I’ve at least exhausted all the possibilities I can think of. That usually means a slew of masks representing variations on the same theme, so that I can see which ideas work and which do not. The latest idea has been rather fruitful, and so far I’ve made three variations that I think came out pretty well: Constantine click on image to go to my Etsy store Neptune Click on image to g ..read more

A tessellation is a pattern of repeating geometric forms that can interlock to fill a space infinitely. In origami tessellation, a discrete unit of folded shapes that can be repeated to make a tessellation is sometimes called a “molecule”. This molecule is an example of a style of tessellations I started folding almost a decade ago that I took to calling “flagstones”. Combining shapes like rhombus twists and open backed hex twists on the front with triangle and closed hex twists in the back allows the shapes in front to sit right next to each other with only a sort of “grout line” separating t ..read more