LaFosse & Alexander’s Essential Book of Origami: The Complete Guide for Everyone: Origami Book With 16 Lessons and Downloadable Instructional Video PDF
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Contents Origami as Expressive Art The Global Origami Movement An Inspirational “LaFossophy” of Origami Folding Socially It’s All About the Art Practical Considerations Choosing and Preparing Your Origami Paper Origami Preservation Showing Your Origami Pieces in Public Selling Your Origami Art Achieving Elegance in Your Folded Art A Guide to Origami Diagrams and Symbols The Projects The Japanese Crane Lessons from the Heart Anne LaVin’s Squirrel The Great White Shark The Elegant - Simple Hummingbird The Dim Sum Bun Ambrose the Skunk A Seahorse for Al Miyatake Humuhumunukunukuapua‘a Yellow Tang for Mariko Foley (or FOALie) the Pony The Happy Good-Luck Bat The Alexander Aztec Swallowtail Butterfly The Wedding Orchid Enough of this Cat! The Leatherback Sea Turtle Acknowledgments How to Download the Bonus Material of this Book. 1. You must have an internet connection. 2. Click the link below or copy paste the URL to your web browser. http://www.tuttlepublishing.com/lafosse-alexanders-essential- book-of-origami-downloadable-cd-content For support email us at [email protected]. Contents - Video Files (.mp4) Disclaimer: "Please check the audio and video specifications of your ebook reader before downloading any additional content." Dedication We lovingly dedicate this collection of origami lessons to our dear friends and mentors, Mrs. Kyoko Kondo and Dr. Shigeo Kondo. Kyoko has been a lifelong, enthusiastic, international ambassador of origami, having served the national organization OrigamiUSA in many capacities for decades. She and Shigeo have personally nurtured countless folders and artists by attending their events and purchasing their art and publications. This unwavering support was essential to our becoming professional origami designers, authors and teachers. As a former Suzuki Method violin teacher, Kyoko knows well the importance and effectiveness of guided practice in any art. We hope you enjoy sharing these origami lessons with your students, just as Kyoko and Shigeo have shared so much with so many for so long! Origami as Expressive Art FOREWORD BY ORIGAMIDO STUDIO COFOUNDER RICHARD L. ALEXANDER O rigami as an expressive art form is relatively new, and in the last few decades has been marked by astounding innovation. This excitement is why Michael LaFosse and I founded Origamido Studio in 1996. There, we have been able to share our joy of designing and folding origami art through publishing, teaching and hosting hand-paper making workshops with other folding colleagues and artists. Michael named our studio “Origamido,” which is Japanese for “fold – paper – school.” The “do” suffix implies a long-term, dedicated study. Michael was familiar with this because his father learned Judo in the US Air Force (and later became an instructor himself), and Michael has also studied Taekwondo for over forty years. Many of our paper-folding students and customers share the “do” — that lifelong passion for origami. To us, it is much more than a hobby, and we have dozens of friends who use their annual vacation time to attend folding conventions now held all around the world. What is origami art, and why might you want to study it? Although the invention of paper was documented in China about two thousand years ago, paper folding as a pastime seems to be only a few hundred years old. Until the last century, only a handful of objects were realized. It was (and still is) often dismissed as a trivial amusement for children. At best it was considered a folk craft. Only since about the middle of the twentieth century has origami exploded in popularity, and there is now a class of paper folding that clearly rises above the craft level. We define origami art as folded paper that expresses the human spirit. So many artists now express emotions so elegantly through folded paper that major museums are booking origami masterworks presented
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