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Flowers that seem to “Glow”
Infinity Petals with Duffy’s Diamonds
Origami Bonsai, Orphans and Flowers of Belize
Origami Bonsai Electronic Magazine Volume 3 Issue 2
Table of Contents
Flowers that seem to “Glow”
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Infinity Petals with Duffy’s Diamonds
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Origami Bonsai, Orphans and Flowers of Belize
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Origami Bonsai Resources on the Web
Click on the thumbnail to be taken to the corresponding web site.
www.OrigamiBonsai.org
Origamibonsai.org has tips, books you can buy, free
folding videos, photos of Origami Bonsai created all by
people living all over the world, and lots more.
www.Scribd.com/Benagami
You'll find Origami Bonsai Electronic Magazine here along
with less expensive electronic versions of Advanced
Origami Bonsai and Origami Bonsai Accessories.
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schedules where Origami Bonsai artists will be present,
along with other announcements.
www.YouTube.com/OrigamiBonsaiForum
A lot of Origami Bonsai folding videos.
www.Etsy.com
Search "origami bonsai" and "makigami accessories" to
see lists of items for sale in these categories from artists
and craftspeople around the globe.
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Origami Bonsai Books and Instant Flowers
Click the thumbnail to order or preview.
The first book in the Origami Bonsai (2010, Tuttle
Publishing) series is available at bookstores worldwide.
This book teaches how to fold the basic flower form
from which many varieties of flower can be folded.
Comes with folding videos on DVD. 112 pages.
Advanced Origami Bonsai teaches how to make
branches from newspaper using the Makigami
technique. Also teaches how to create intricate branch
networks for Origami Bonsai sculptures. 182 pages on
DVD or through Scribd.com.
Origami Bonsai Accessories teaches how to make
durable Makigami jewelry, accessories, bangles, planters
and other items. Concepts presented can be applied to
other crafts, hobbies, and art forms. Make virtually
anything from paper. 152 pages on DVD or through
Scribd.com.
Origami Bonsai Instant Flowers are the first mass
produced origami flower in the world! They fold
instantly into 12 flower varieties with videos on YouTube
to guide you. Each package comes with 6 red, 3 blue and
3 yellow instant flowers.
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How to make Flowers that “Glow”
Do you notice anything odd about the flower pictured
at right? Look closely at one of the narrow, light
yellow petals. Notice that towards the center of the
flower, the narrow, light yellow petal changes color.
It looks a little bit blue. As if some of the blue
color from the blue flower reflects onto the
light yellow flower. It’s not a
reflection. It’s actually a layer
of paint that was added to
the light yellow flower.
Here is a really fun illusion that can
be added to just about any flower.
This glowing effect can be added to
flower assemblies, like the one
shown at lef,t to make the smaller
flower look like its glowing, or
reflecting onto the other flower in
the assembly.
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I used five of these flowers on the plant pictured above. Notice that the illusion works no
matter what the viewing angle. I think the illusion adds a complimentary complexity to an
already beautiful sculpture.
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The same illusion can be used to make
stamens look like they’re glowing. This
flower’s stamens are painted in
a darker cream
color. The center of the
smaller flower is also
painted in that color.
Not only does the
color enhance the
shape of the smaller,
inner flower, but it
also makes it look like the
stamens are glowing.
In this example the effect is subtle.
The following example is more
exaggerated.
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How to Make Stamens that Seem to Glow
In order to complete this project you’ll need a copy of Origami Bonsai (Tuttle 2010), and either
Advanced Origami Bonsai or Origami Bonsai Accessories (Benjamin John Coleman 2009, 2010).
1. Paint highlighting onto a square you
plan to fold into a flower (see page 36 in
Origami Bonsai). In this example I’m
painting the area orange. Notice that my
highlight approaches, but does not touch,
the edge of the paper.
2. Mix a color (see instructions in Advanced
Origami Bonsai page 68 or Origami Bonsai
Accessories page 65) similar to the highlight
you painted in step 1.
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3. Paint your stamen with the mixture from
step 2. (Stamen are small pieces of makigami.
Instructions for making makigami can be
found in Advanced Origami Bonsai or Origami
Bonsai Accessories.)
4. Paint your flower with two coats of paint
following the instructions on page 36 of
Origami Bonsai. I used a creamy yellow color.
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Your finished flower should look similar to
this. Notice how the orange color seems to
“glow” in the center of the flower.
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Infinity Petals with Duffy’s Diamonds
As a child, Tanya Duffy (pictured opposite page) of New South
Wales, Australia was introduced to origami but never “got into it,”
she said. She became a teacher, and now at age 46 she teaches a
high school course in computer studies. In October of 2010 Duffy
rediscovered origami when she supervised an origami-related activity at
school. Duffy said “I found myself interested in some of the samples
around the room, in particular a Kusudama.” A Kusudama is a
geometric shape which resembles a ball and is made from multiple
folded sheets of origami paper. She set out to make her own
Kusudama and began a journey into the world of folded paper; a
journey that would lead her to a discovery that would remove many
of the limitations imposed on folders by the traditional square.
Initially Duffy bought some origami paper from a
colleague who taught the Japanese language at the
high school. Research on the web, specifically into
folding flowers, soon followed. She wasn’t entirely
satisfied with the paper she had, so she traveled by train
to Sydney to a large Japanese stationery and book store.
That is where she first encountered the book,
Origami Bonsai (Tuttle 2010). “I remember being
really excited at the idea of making bonsai from
paper,” she said. She bought the book.
A six petal flower folded from a Star of David
shaped piece of paper (left).
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Duffy soon folded her first flower. “I love bonsai
plants but have been unsuccessful with them in the
past,” she said. “I have a few potted plants around
the home, but due to allergies, many are artificial
flower arrangements.” She also thought Origami
Bonsai would make good gifts for family and
friends.
About three months later she discovered
OrigamiBonsai.org, and this magazine.
Eventually she came across the June 2010
issue of Origami Bonsai Electronic Magazine
which featured a design for a five petal
flower. “I had purchased other books on
origami flowers and many were based on 5,
6, 7 or even 8 sided polygons and I
recognized the symmetry.” She obtained
the five petal designs from that issue but felt
uncomfortable scoring fold lines into the
paper. So she experimented.
“It occurred to me that if I made a star with
six points I could fold each of those points
in, just as you do with the basic flower
form.” She soon discovered that she could
create flowers with any number of petals by
following a basic rule.
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The “Duffy Diamond Rule” is:
“The basic flower form can be folded with from three to infinity petals
by distributing the petals as equally sized diamond shapes about a
center point, with each diamond shape made up of two congruent
triangles.”
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Upon making the discovery, Duffy pushed the limits of the basic flower form. She folded
flowers with as few as one and as many as eight petals. On the following page you’ll find
templates for her five petal flower in four sizes. Print the template and then cut out one of the
polygons.
Applying four petal folding diagrams to a five petal flower is merely a matter of thinking about
the folding pattern for an individual petal. Fold it following the instructions on page 51 of
Origami Bonsai, but when folding, consider only the movements of one petal at a time. This is
harder to explain than it is to do.
Due to copyright limitations, instructions for folding cannot be made available in this
publication. An intimate understanding of the basic flower form folding pattern is a
prerequisite. You will need to use a program like Adobe Illustrator to create templates for
flowers with more than five petals.
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Origami Bonsai, Orphans and Flowers of Belize
by Benjamin John Coleman
A recent trip to Belize and Guatemala by my parents, John and Annette Coleman gave them an
opportunity to photograph some flowers. Part of the trip included a visit to an orphanage in
Guatemala called “Casa Guatemala.” The trip planners asked that each guest bring something
to donate to the orphanage. Books were among the suggested donations, so my parents
brought three signed copies of Origami Bonsai for the kids.
A crewmember borrowed a book to learn the
basic flower form while en route to the
orphanage.
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Children at Casa Guatemala gather for a
meal.
A gigantic flower produced by a banana
tree.
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Red Bourgainvilliea
Unidentified
Purple Bourgainvillea
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Unidentified
Unidentified
Bromelliad
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My father made an interesting observation when he noticed this
tree (distant center in the picture above). The pattern on the
surface of the trunk is similar to those of origami bonsai I’ve been making recently.
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