Dear Jaime, Have I got you covered! Because you put your faith in me to be one of the contributing bloggers to the Paper Forest, I really wanted to bring some remarkable works that perhaps neither of us had seen before, and moreover had that certain "top drawer" PF sensibility. Tell me if I've done it.
Talented Russian designer and artist, Tatyana Stolyarova (aka; Tekuila) posted her new remarkable lotus flower paper pop-up (shown above, with a variation) to both her site and this Russian Live Journal Origamic Architecture page. She provides a pdf for download with diagrams for its construction there at the bottom of the description!
This flower is a rather nice variation on Robert Sabuda's lotus and even more feasible to construct than previous OA blooms that required a difficult thread matrix in the mechanism in order to open up. I am rabid about this flower, it may be my all time favorite pop-up to make for myself.
Also on her Live Journal page, new to me, perhaps new to you too, was a paper artist that is off the charts exciting. Dutch paper artist, Annelies Smit van Hüüksloot has been captivated by something in paper I'd not heard of, Caleidocycli, or Kaleidocycles "art that moves". She has taken Fellow Dutch artist, MC Escher's works and translated them onto this new 3D form of rotating rings of tetrahedra and the results are nothing less than spectacular! From there, click on "Escher" in her left side nav bar and don't miss seeing the steaming videos to see how they all move.
Your alter ego, Shelley Noble
PS: A friend living in Japan is hand-delivering the Harac paper cutter to my hot hands next week. A full report coming on that little treasure believe you me!
UPDATE: Erin Dillon wrote to tell us that there is a wonderful book with, as she describes, "...all of the M. C. Escher kaleidocycles models pictured in Annelies Smit van Hüüksloot's blog in full color on thick card stock with instructions." It's from the 70's, but seems to be available if one keeps their peeps open. Amazon has it, as do many smaller local shops, like Half Price Books
Thanks, Erin!
9 comments:
link to the lotus file is here:
http://r-i-w.tomsk.ru/rupopup/patterns/lotus.pdf
love your site!!!!
Thanks, Melissa. Tatyana was kind enough to lead me to this too. I don't know why I had such trouble finding it!
Have you made any yet?
Alison lead me to your blog and she is right it is wonderful!
I'm completely fond of handicrafts. Thfnk you for the link. I'm gonna learn it and develope my skills in that.
Thanks for the nice post!
nice to meet you! I'm from Hong Kong. I love your painting style very much=]
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