COcon 2024 Class Descriptions/Advisories

Come celebrate the Year of the Dragon as per the lunar calendar.

Make four horses fly in carousel formation.
Made from two sheets of paper, four horses emerge.
Great birthday gift where live candles are not allowed. Just blow and make a wish.

This wonderful model by Pasquale d’Auria shows a bear and her catch from one sheet of paper!

The goal of this class is to fold some of the basic traditional models and talk you through the basics of origami. I’ll throw out some of the basic terminology and we’ll walk through each fold step by step.
Whether you’re a beginner or advanced, you’re welcome to join in on the class. I plan to make this a full participation event where everyone shares their experiences. Do you have some tips to share? Well I’m all ears and would love for you to share it with the class. Do you have questions, again let’s hear it. I’d love to share what I know with you, and hear from others as well. This class will be a shared experience.

I learned this at the New York convention and always thought how cool the pattern repeats around the model. It requires 8 units total to create 1 model and kami works fine. Miyuki taught a small group post convention after visiting the mineral hall at the American Museum of Natural History.

This class is a low intermediate, but very cute, goldfish. The folding sequence is relatively simple, but there are a few steps without references.

This is a stretchy, 30-unit ball made with my "Super Nobu Unit." The photo shows two balls but you make only one (your choice) in the class. Each unit is very simple but the assembly requires experience with 3D modular models.

This clever model allows you to have a rabbit pop up out of a hat. It is folded out of one dollar bill --- or a bigger denomination is you have money to throw around :). You need a fairly crisp bill, which you need to supply. I will not supply money. It's not so hard to fold, but some patience is required to work with the model to get it to pop up correctly and to learn how to hold it for best effect. Robert Neale, the designer of this model, is perhaps better known as a magician than an origami artist, but he has designed some great origami models. If you are a bit less than an intermediate folder, but you have a lot of patience, please join us! You can read more about Robert Neale here: https://www.britishorigami.org/cp-lister-list/neales-bunny-bill/

This is an eight-piece modular ring. (the photos show the front side and back of the model.) Folding units and assembly are both fairly simple but need to be precise.

This workshop will be teaching Hideo Komatsu's Fox! Komatsu is an amazing creator and adherent to the Genuine Origami school of design pioneered by Jun Maekawa in his 1983 book Viva! Origami authored with Kunihiko Kasahara. The Genuine style is about precise folds at every step, creating models with a mix of angular and shaped features, aiming not entirely for precision but artistic interpretation of the subject, with folding instructions purposefully meant to fold, creating models that not only are marvelous to see for their unique interpretation, they aspire to be a joy to fold at every step!

This fox is Komatsu's first ever model! Created back in his highschool days in 1993 and revised multiple times in the years since, it is a beautiful testament to the beliefs and successes of the Genuine origami school.
The model artistically balances pointed legs and shaped neck, with a tail that is a almost completely unmodified raw corner of the paper, with a flatter back and rounded tube-like body rare-to-see in animal origami, with a head made of almost no actual folds! Instead leveraging creative and simple shaping to produce a wonderful model.

This model features an open sink, many inside reverse folds, and two unconventional and important swivel folds. The tolerance for failure is high and no individual step is overwhelmingly challenging.
Written in only 75 steps, this model is a very good engagement for folders pushing the high-intermediate category, and a joy to fold for more comfortable folders.

here's a video made by NOT ME showing the fox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcBzJAc5Ay4

The dragon bookmark is an origami that is used as a bookmark and is used to display as a dragon sitting on top of your book. It is an origami you can use whenever you read a book.

This red kangaroo, which is presented in John Montroll's Origami Symphony No. 9 from 2023 was carefully designed to include a closed back design while removing unnecessary bulk with the paper. It incorporates a beautiful set of ears, which is an important part of the design for mammals, while also incorporating an essence of artistry. With only 21 steps to fold, this is one of the best models in the book! Folders should come prepared understanding squash folds, reverse folds, rabbit-ear folds and crimp folds.

This classic twist fold will amaze your friends. Folded from a rectangle using copy paper, the result is a cool action model. Wendy will teach a method to get good clean folds that make the twisting easier. Students will need to fold into thirds and make precise sharp creases.

I will teach my favorite bird model, the Warbler.