I recently completed a commission for some origami elephants for a client in Germany. They asked for a series of models in various stages of completion and asked that I use white textured paper. I used 12′ Canson paper and they came out quite nice. Should be interesting to how they photograph them. Meanwhile here are my own snapshots, taken prior to boxing ’em up.
And in case you were wondering, there’s an historical connection between Germans and White Elephants. The Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne had an albino war elephant a named Abul-Abbas. It was a gift from the Caliph of Baghdad. King Charlemagne rode the beast in battle against the Danes. Badass!
hello Mr. zingman , my name is Nicolas Gajardo, I’m from Chile in South America a few years ago I do origami and always remember that the first models that were bent I found on your website, I am creative too and often fold models of other people for relaxing, I folded all your models which track I found , your last elephant I fold too and I feel fantastic, I fold from the proportion of a kite base and I loved its simplicity and elegance, also tried your bear, I was not so well (using the same base with little changes) it would be interesting to do something progressive with his bear as with the elephant …
I also have blog and http://www.novalecortar.blogspot.com is in Spanish, explaining why different ways of creating models, I hope you enjoy it the same way you enjoy your blog …
a warm greeting from this corner of the world
happy foldings …
Nicolás Gajardo Henríquez (origamichile)
hello Mr. zingman , my name is Nicolas Gajardo, I’m from Chile in South America a few years ago I do origami and always remember that the first models that were bent I found on your website, I am creative too and often fold models of other people for relaxing, I folded all your models which track I found , your last elephant I fold too and I feel fantastic, I fold from the proportion of a kite base and I loved its simplicity and elegance, also tried your bear, I was not so well (using the same base with little changes) it would be interesting to do something progressive with his bear as with the elephant …
I also have blog and http://www.novalecortar.blogspot.com is in Spanish, explaining why different ways of creating models, I hope you enjoy it the same way you enjoy your blog …
a warm greeting from this corner of the world
happy foldings …
Nicolás Gajardo Henríquez (origamichile)