In today’s bear-illiant new workshop, artist Paul Mulgrew shows you how to design, draw, create and colour your very own smiling Origami Bear!
WHAT YOU NEED:
- One square sheet of white paper. (Plus one extra scrap sheet to protect the table.)
- Crayons: Brown, Red, Black.
- One black marker.
Origami is the traditional Japanese art of creating mini-sculptures by folding a flat, square sheet of paper – no scissors or glue required. The crane is one of the most famous designs, and one of the oldest known books about origami from 1797, called Hiden senbazuru origata (The Secret of Folding 1,000 Paper Cranes), contains instructions for making 49 different kinds of crane.
But origami is still being taken to new levels by contemporary artists – like this incredible life-size elephant created by artist Sipho Mabona from a single sheet of paper!
Or these elaborate paper sculptures designed using computational origami created by Professor Jun Mitani.
So, you can see that once you master the basics with our Origami Bear, the potential for new ideas from a historic tradition is vast and exciting.
Have fun folding, and please send us pictures of your creations!
Funded by Community Foundation NI
