BLOGGING IS WORK...
Yes, I've come to the conclusion...though it has been very delayed...that blogging is a lot of work. Unfortunately, because of work and school and everything else, I'm not working on origami as frequently as in the past. I normally post when I've finished a commission or worked on something new.
I still haven't posted the picture of Sara's last commission. I couldn't find my camera, used the work camera to take a photo and uploaded it onto my work computer. Alas, I cannot locate it and I've deleted it off the camera. Teaches me not to erase things until I double check that it has properly been saved. Booo...I'll have to ask if I can take another photo!!
ROSE MAKING WITH FOLD
I finally attended a FOLD meeting/workshop! With my hectic schedule, I haven't been able to come to any meetings. I took a half day from work to do some school stuff and also to meet FOLD member and make roses.
They are organizing the rose project. The goal being to make origami roses and sell them to raise money and donate leftover origami roses to SickKids. It's a worthwhile cause and I donate to SickKids and the Herbie Fund as well. I have a soft spot for that hospital as my younger sister spent several Easters there with bad cases of asthma and my young ten-year-old cousin had a brain tumor and was treated at SickKids. He is in remission now! The staff is amazing and really took care of my family, so I am happy to help them out.
I finally learned how to make an origami rose. I have been trying to learn for years, but I always managed to psych myself out. Thanks to the very helpful instructors and patience, I managed to make a half decent one...more with practice. Roses take a lot of material and time, so I don't know if I can say I'd make them on a regular basis! Kudos to the origami rose makers of the world!
Good night!
-Sam
Friday, February 4, 2011
Sunday, December 12, 2010
COMMISSIONS!!
Yesterday I managed to finish 3 commissions and received another request! I'm so happy that people are appreciating the origami art! Here are photos of the latest pieces on their way to their new homes!
all of these commissions are untitled...
Two commissions for Sara!! :)
one commission for Jenny!
all of these commissions are untitled...
Two commissions for Sara!! :)
one commission for Jenny!
posting this a bit late, but...
Dear Friends,
Its that time of year again...holiday shopping time. I will be participating in the following Artisan Gift Fair and Kensington Market Art Shows, showcasing my pop-up & decorated holiday cards, framed origami art and origami ornaments. Please come out and support (even if you're just coming to chat and catch up)! You'll also find loads of interesting (and one-of-a-kind) stuff at both venues.
The Artisans' Gift Fair @ the Tranzac FREE ADMISSION!!
http://www.artisansgiftfair.com/
Sat. Dec 18/10
Sun. Dec 19/10
Show time: 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
I will be there on these dates from open to close.
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Holiday POPUP Art Shop Project 2010 FREE ADMISSION!
http://www.methinkspresents.org/project165/?page_id=936
Shop Hours: December 10 – 27, 12 – 6pm daily
Closed: December 25, 26
My work is displayed, but I will not be there.
I hope this message finds you well and wishing you all the best, this holiday season!
Sam o^__^o
Dear Friends,
Its that time of year again...holiday shopping time. I will be participating in the following Artisan Gift Fair and Kensington Market Art Shows, showcasing my pop-up & decorated holiday cards, framed origami art and origami ornaments. Please come out and support (even if you're just coming to chat and catch up)! You'll also find loads of interesting (and one-of-a-kind) stuff at both venues.
The Artisans' Gift Fair @ the Tranzac FREE ADMISSION!!
http://www.artisansgiftfair.com/
Sat. Dec 18/10
Sun. Dec 19/10
Show time: 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
I will be there on these dates from open to close.
===========================================
Holiday POPUP Art Shop Project 2010 FREE ADMISSION!
http://www.methinkspresents.org/project165/?page_id=936
Shop Hours: December 10 – 27, 12 – 6pm daily
Closed: December 25, 26
My work is displayed, but I will not be there.
I hope this message finds you well and wishing you all the best, this holiday season!
Sam o^__^o
Sunday, November 7, 2010
The Japanese Paper Place's Washi Sale 2010
Please support amateur me and professional artists at The Japanese Paper Place's Washi Sale 2010!
After seeing my work at Ambiance, a very nice artist told Nancy about my work. I had a meeting with her and showed her my work. After discussing a few things, Nancy invited me to take part in their washi sale. I'm honoured to be presenting some of my work along professional artists! My main goal is to spread the love of paper art and I hope more people will acknowledge origami as a type of art that should be taken seriously.
Hope to see you there!
After seeing my work at Ambiance, a very nice artist told Nancy about my work. I had a meeting with her and showed her my work. After discussing a few things, Nancy invited me to take part in their washi sale. I'm honoured to be presenting some of my work along professional artists! My main goal is to spread the love of paper art and I hope more people will acknowledge origami as a type of art that should be taken seriously.
Hope to see you there!
Charity Commission
I am a big supporter of the South Riverdale Child Parent Centre at 765 Queen St. E. and so when I heard that they have an annual auction to raise funds for their non-profit organization, I offered to make a special art piece for them to auction off.
Title: Bliss (picture #1)
(picture #2)
I created this work with the intention of placing a family in nature. Originally I had planned to have a family of three, but then I added the new addition. The title encompasses the dual bliss of life in nature and in families.
This piece was especially created for the South Riverdale Child Parent Centre's Annual Auction to raise funds for their non-profit organization.
17.5cm x 17.5cm x 4cm
shadow box, chiyogami paper, origami paper,
card stock
04/11/10
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Here are the details of the auction:
Book Your Babysitters!
Saturday, November 13th The South Riverdale Parent Child Centre will be hosting our
Annual Auction Fundraiser.
Our major fundraiser of the year, this annual event is an opportunity for participants
and friends of the Centre to get together and have a great evening out while
supporting our amazing community resource.
There will be scrumptious food, a cash bar, and a plethora of silent & live
auction items to bid on.
There is truly something for everybody, so invite your friends & family &
bring your cheque books!
Tickets are $5 in advance / $10 At the door.
Other than my art piece, these are other items up for grabs:
Body Blitz Spa
Little Peeps
Pheylonian
Production Kohr (the original 100% pure beeswax candles)
Progressive Nutritional Therapies
SpinMaster Toys
Tennis Canada Tickets
Blue Jays Tickets & Awesome Autographed Merchandise!
Ontario Science Centre
2 prs of Maple Leafs tickets from McCague Borlack LLP
ROM Passes
Sushi Bar Gift Certificate
Coyote Willie
Bob & Paige
Salon Studio We!
Mastermind Toys
Rainbow Songs
Professional Hair Care Products
Sportplay
Stars on Ice Tickets (IMG Canada)
Black Creek Pioneer Village Passes
Name Your Tune Personalized Kids CD's
Ed’s Real Scoop Ice Cream Cake
Mercury Coffee gift pack
Leslieville Cheese Night School Class
Title: Bliss (picture #1)
(picture #2)
I created this work with the intention of placing a family in nature. Originally I had planned to have a family of three, but then I added the new addition. The title encompasses the dual bliss of life in nature and in families.
This piece was especially created for the South Riverdale Child Parent Centre's Annual Auction to raise funds for their non-profit organization.
17.5cm x 17.5cm x 4cm
shadow box, chiyogami paper, origami paper,
card stock
04/11/10
------
Here are the details of the auction:
Book Your Babysitters!
Saturday, November 13th The South Riverdale Parent Child Centre will be hosting our
Annual Auction Fundraiser.
Our major fundraiser of the year, this annual event is an opportunity for participants
and friends of the Centre to get together and have a great evening out while
supporting our amazing community resource.
There will be scrumptious food, a cash bar, and a plethora of silent & live
auction items to bid on.
There is truly something for everybody, so invite your friends & family &
bring your cheque books!
Tickets are $5 in advance / $10 At the door.
Other than my art piece, these are other items up for grabs:
Body Blitz Spa
Little Peeps
Pheylonian
Production Kohr (the original 100% pure beeswax candles)
Progressive Nutritional Therapies
SpinMaster Toys
Tennis Canada Tickets
Blue Jays Tickets & Awesome Autographed Merchandise!
Ontario Science Centre
2 prs of Maple Leafs tickets from McCague Borlack LLP
ROM Passes
Sushi Bar Gift Certificate
Coyote Willie
Bob & Paige
Salon Studio We!
Mastermind Toys
Rainbow Songs
Professional Hair Care Products
Sportplay
Stars on Ice Tickets (IMG Canada)
Black Creek Pioneer Village Passes
Name Your Tune Personalized Kids CD's
Ed’s Real Scoop Ice Cream Cake
Mercury Coffee gift pack
Leslieville Cheese Night School Class
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
UPDATED - HOWL-o-ween!...a little off-topic, but still working with paper!
This one's a bit off-topic, but Halloween is just to fun! I have a number of kids programs coming up and so I've come up with some really fun ideas for Halloween tricks and treats!!
-GHOST POPS-
Its been done before, but it's way too fun!
materials: round lollipops like tootsie pops or chupa chups (not the flat ones), facial tissue/kleenex, clear tape, marker
1. Get a Tootsie Pop or Chupa Chup and wrap it in white tissue.
2. Use a piece of scotch tape and wrap it around the neck.
3. Use a marker to draw a face on it. The weirder or scarier the facial expression, the better!
-PUMPKIN POPS-
I ended up buying the regular flat lollipops too. You know, the kind that they give you after you pay the bill for your lunch or got as a treat when you were young. The flat kind of lollipop doesn't really give off a ghosty feeling. I decided to try something different! They turned out pretty well!
materials: flat rounded lollipops, orange tissue paper, clear tape, marker, green pipecleaner
1. Use a square piece of orange tissue paper (big enough to wrap your lollipop)
2. Use the lollipop stick to poke a whole right in the centre of the tissue paper.
3. Slide the lollipop through the whole until the candy part is just touching the paper
4. Fold the two bottom corners of the plastic on the lollipop to the centre and gently pull the tissue paper from all the ends upwards. Sometimes, the plastic will rip through. If it does, you can either leave it as is, or use some tape to fix it up
5. Use the green pipe cleaner to bring all of the tissue paper together at the top, so it looks like a pumpkin
6. Draw your pumpkin face with a marker
-GHOST POPS with ROCKET ARMS-
I decided to do something with some of the other ghosts and I had a bag of boring rockets, so I thought it would be interesting to use them as arms.
1. Follow the same instructions for ghost pops (see above)
2. Use clear tape to attach the rocket arms.
I have one or two more things I'm working on, so I'll post those once I finish.
UPDATE!! ZOMBIE GHOST POP MOB!!
I did do majority of the treats, but I must also give credit to the staff that helped me make these SUPERAWESOME treats! Thanks!!
Have a HAPPY HOWL-o-ween!
-GHOST POPS-
Its been done before, but it's way too fun!
materials: round lollipops like tootsie pops or chupa chups (not the flat ones), facial tissue/kleenex, clear tape, marker
1. Get a Tootsie Pop or Chupa Chup and wrap it in white tissue.
2. Use a piece of scotch tape and wrap it around the neck.
3. Use a marker to draw a face on it. The weirder or scarier the facial expression, the better!
-PUMPKIN POPS-
I ended up buying the regular flat lollipops too. You know, the kind that they give you after you pay the bill for your lunch or got as a treat when you were young. The flat kind of lollipop doesn't really give off a ghosty feeling. I decided to try something different! They turned out pretty well!
materials: flat rounded lollipops, orange tissue paper, clear tape, marker, green pipecleaner
1. Use a square piece of orange tissue paper (big enough to wrap your lollipop)
2. Use the lollipop stick to poke a whole right in the centre of the tissue paper.
3. Slide the lollipop through the whole until the candy part is just touching the paper
4. Fold the two bottom corners of the plastic on the lollipop to the centre and gently pull the tissue paper from all the ends upwards. Sometimes, the plastic will rip through. If it does, you can either leave it as is, or use some tape to fix it up
5. Use the green pipe cleaner to bring all of the tissue paper together at the top, so it looks like a pumpkin
6. Draw your pumpkin face with a marker
-GHOST POPS with ROCKET ARMS-
I decided to do something with some of the other ghosts and I had a bag of boring rockets, so I thought it would be interesting to use them as arms.
1. Follow the same instructions for ghost pops (see above)
2. Use clear tape to attach the rocket arms.
I have one or two more things I'm working on, so I'll post those once I finish.
UPDATE!! ZOMBIE GHOST POP MOB!!
I did do majority of the treats, but I must also give credit to the staff that helped me make these SUPERAWESOME treats! Thanks!!
Have a HAPPY HOWL-o-ween!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
[recent work] Chocolat, Je T'aime I
This work was actually is one of a two part series. I gave the owners of Ambiance Chocolat the other art piece, because they allowed me to display my work there and the chocolates I made in the frames were based on their signature ones. Plus, they are SUPERAWESOME, so I don't mind giving them one! I will post the picture of that one sometime this week (hopefully!)
pictures of the work in progress
Title: Chocolat, Je T'aime I (final version)
kitchen: I thought it should have black floor and be all white, but I chose sparkly off-white cardstock for the wall so it wouldn't look too plain. I used cardstock for the table and couldn't imagine it being just black or white, so I chose a beige marble-like design. The kitchen was beginning to take shape, but after I added Chef, I still felt that it wasn't enough. There was too much white space and didn't seem visually balanced, so I added the patterned chiyogami on the table's exterior and a black and white clock, slightly to the right.
chocolate: I love Ambiance Chocolat's chocolate designs. I really wanted to make similar chocolate for the piece. I went on their web site and looked at which chocolates I could try to copy. I purchased various clay - though, the packages didn't have brown clay. I could have just bought brown clay, but that would be boring and what would I do with an abundance of one colour? I thought it would be fun to mix the clay to make brown and experiment with different colours. I managed to replicate a few of their chocolates in extreme mini versions. It was a lot of fun, but it took a long time to figure out the size proportions, shapes and designs. I wanted the tray to look somewhat similar to what one actually looks like. After trying different things, I ended up using medicine packaging and I think it worked out.
Chef: Chef is wearing a yukata. I chose a checkered design, as it seemed the one she would wear in the kitchen. Are you surprised? All of my origami figures wear kimonos and this would be no exception. Yes, I know, normally the sleeves would be pulled up, but I took liberties. I had fun making Chef's hat. I fanned the top and then covered the bottom part with another strip of cardstock. I put a black line across the rim of the hat and on part of the apron, just to make them stand out.
pictures of the work in progress
Title: Chocolat, Je T'aime I (final version)
kitchen: I thought it should have black floor and be all white, but I chose sparkly off-white cardstock for the wall so it wouldn't look too plain. I used cardstock for the table and couldn't imagine it being just black or white, so I chose a beige marble-like design. The kitchen was beginning to take shape, but after I added Chef, I still felt that it wasn't enough. There was too much white space and didn't seem visually balanced, so I added the patterned chiyogami on the table's exterior and a black and white clock, slightly to the right.
chocolate: I love Ambiance Chocolat's chocolate designs. I really wanted to make similar chocolate for the piece. I went on their web site and looked at which chocolates I could try to copy. I purchased various clay - though, the packages didn't have brown clay. I could have just bought brown clay, but that would be boring and what would I do with an abundance of one colour? I thought it would be fun to mix the clay to make brown and experiment with different colours. I managed to replicate a few of their chocolates in extreme mini versions. It was a lot of fun, but it took a long time to figure out the size proportions, shapes and designs. I wanted the tray to look somewhat similar to what one actually looks like. After trying different things, I ended up using medicine packaging and I think it worked out.
Chef: Chef is wearing a yukata. I chose a checkered design, as it seemed the one she would wear in the kitchen. Are you surprised? All of my origami figures wear kimonos and this would be no exception. Yes, I know, normally the sleeves would be pulled up, but I took liberties. I had fun making Chef's hat. I fanned the top and then covered the bottom part with another strip of cardstock. I put a black line across the rim of the hat and on part of the apron, just to make them stand out.
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