MOMA Origami Doves...

i love origami.

i love the paper...the colour, designs, geometry,

i am fascinated by the style

and the art.

i bought this book

last year at the MOMA shop

at the gold coast while on holiday...

the doves...



this is a reproduction japanese woodblock print called 'rock doves and tree sparrows'.

this has inspired the authors steve & megumi biddle

to create these origami doves...

here is how i made my dove...

you will need one square piece of paper

for a large dove like this 6"x 6"

small (like on mondays post) about 2"x 2"

right side up

fold diagonally in half...

then in half again.

unfold the second fold, so it is just half of the square.

valley fold the top points two thirds of the way down.

fold the front flap up again by half of the bottom third...

open out the top of the triangle to form a small square.

showing the back of the paper.

fold in half

{the small square is folding in on itself}

to make the wings.

you can see that this forms the wings on both sides of the body...

do a small (inside reverse) fold to form the head and beak of the dove

seen at the bottom of the picture above.



valley fold the wing up over the body on one side...



then on the other side...and it will look like...

this.





& this.

fold the wing tips over to form bird wings

and you have a georgeous dove.!

the book says you can change the angle of the head or wings

to create different doves each time.

'may the peace of God,

fill your hearts and minds

this weekend....

and have lotsa fun making origami doves'

naturally Carol xox

p.s. a big thank you for the lovely comments made about me on 'gwenny-penny's' blog...cheers gwen!