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I would also like to thank my wonderful mother for composing and framing my fishies 🙂 This has been an amazing Christmas surprise for me after a rough week. All in all, I an happy with the results of my first foray into origami koi fish and look forward to refining my folding and colouring process. Wet folding origami creates a much more smooth product. This is again another artisan technique that I am not familiar with, so I have just been dry folding some craft paper that I have had lying around in the house. Pull the left and right flaps from the middle up and out to the sides. Fold the top and bottom edges to the center. Fold the left and right edges to the middle. Mr Mabona also wet folds his koi from paper that he has hand crafted exclusively for his origami. Fold the paper in half both ways and unfold. I am no artisan, so I slapped to some good ol’ watercolour paint to colour my fishies.

The results look like the fish have been beautifully watercoloured. Mr Mabona adds colour to his koi through an ancient Japanese technique using hand created and dyed paper. My interpretation of Sipho Mabona’s Origami Koi Design

I drew circles into the still wet sand mixture and glued on a pebble in the centre once fully dried. I painted the MDF board white before adding the gritty sand layer. The koi are resting on an MDF board painted with a mixture of sand and modelling paste.

#ORIGAMI KOI FISH TRIAL#

Sipho Mabona origami koi design folded by yours trulyĪfter much trial and error, I folded and painted enough koi to make a small piece of artwork.

#ORIGAMI KOI FISH HOW TO#

Poking around with Google linked me to a stop motion video of how to fold Sipho’s origami koi design. His koi fish and swallow origami left me picking up my jaw off the ground.

To color the paper check out this video and ideas.Once upon a short while ago, I stumbled across Sipho Mabona’s incredible origami.

To have paper of different tones, I added some red and yellow color to paper that was orange.

The layers of the tail can be curled to opposite sides or each individually to the same side.

The way the lamp pieces interlock became the bases of how the koi fish's scales interlock. Then late Jan of 2018 I suddenly got inspiration from diy Ikea lamps. I ran into a lot of design blocks and gave up for a year.

The tail can be curved to one side or the other. Since Feb of 2017, I've wanted to design poseable paper koi lanterns without using glue or tape.

This origami fish allows for some variations:.

It’s ideal to use paper with the same color on each side.

The finished fish shows both sides of the paper.

Cut a square in half to make two rectangles for two fish.

In the video, the goldfish is demonstrated using office paper –6 x 3 inches (15 x 7.5 cm).

Tips and suggestions for making the origami goldfish So, here I share the video tutorial to make this origami goldfish. At the end of all that effort I was left with my very own goldfish design. I studied the picture carefully and played with many pieces of paper trying to reproduce this terrific little model. I wasn’t successful!īut, through the effort and process of experimentation I ended up producing a fish that looked very much like a goldfish. There was neither reference to instructions for making this koi fish, nor any indication of who the author was. Give him a dollar bill and he can create just about anything and boggle your mind at the same time.

Won Park does not just specialize in koi. Take a look at his origami koi fish below and you will know why he is dedicating a career to it. I was browsing the Internet one day when my eye was taken by the photograph of an origami koi fish. And that’s what Won Park does, as a full-time profession (for real). Sometimes our creativity can be sparked simply by looking at photographs of the natural world and inspiration can be found in the most surprising places. These freshwater fish are found in Europe, North America, and Asia.

We can use several different ideas to create new origami figures. The carp or koi ( Cyprinos carpio ) has been genetically manipulated by the Japanese.

Display our models on a base or hanging in a mobile.

Apply color to the paper before folding.

Choose papers with interesting colors or textures.

There are many ways to be creative with origami as we can, for example…