Rebecca Gieseking

[rgieseking]

Folded from one uncut rectangle of Elephant Hide paper, painted with gold and copper acrylic paints. Read more about this piece at http://rebecca.gieseking.us/2013/09/new ... hift-vase/

[JamesOrigami490]

Amazing vase, Rebecca! I think I may try to fold one of your designs one of these days.

[rgieseking]

Thanks, James! I've got a few crease patterns on my website, and I'm working on putting more together.

[origami_8]

Great piece and the colour is really outstanding. Do you paint it with a brush or do you use any special technique?

[rgieseking]

Thanks so much! This one was painted with a 1/2-inch flat brush and dabbing the paint on to create a texture. But I've also used a variety of other painting techniques - something else I want to write about on my website sometime!

[eudaimonia]

Very beautiful!

[chesscuber98]

Wow! Your works are amazing! You are also very generous to share your techniques on your website!

[rgieseking]

Very beautiful!

Thanks!

Wow! Your works are amazing! You are also very generous to share your techniques on your website!

Thank you! Since my folding style is pretty far from what most people are used to, I would love for more people to be able to try it.

[rgieseking]

I finally drew a crease pattern for the diagonal shift I have been using recently:



More crease patterns and some folding/design hints on my website at http://rebecca.gieseking.us/2013/09/cre ... nal-shift/.

[rgieseking]

Continuing in my diagonal shift series, this piece is the first to incorporate two diagonal shift elements in the same model. Folded from one uncut rectangle of Elephant Hide, painted (before folding) with acrylics. Read more about this piece and the inspiration for this series on my website at http://rebecca.gieseking.us/2013/10/new ... hift-vase/.

[Razzmatazz]

Beautiful. I think I might try folding one of your patterns. Is there a secret as to how they fold together? Or is it the genius of the model itself that keeps it from falling apart?

[rgieseking]

Thanks so much, Razzmatazz! I do typically use a little glue (at least to turn the rectangle of paper into a tube; sometimes a little more as needed) and fairly extensive wet-folding.

I've actually got some design and folding tips in an article in The Fold (http://origamiusa.org/thefold/article/d ... ated-forms) and as a series of tutorials on my website (part 1: http://rebecca.gieseking.us/2012/12/tut ... d-forms-1/, part 2: http://rebecca.gieseking.us/2013/03/tut ... d-forms-2/, and part 3: http://rebecca.gieseking.us/2013/07/tut ... ted-forms/)

[Razzmatazz]

Oh wow thanks so much! Your work is something vastly admirable.

[rgieseking]

Read more about this piece on my website at http://rebecca.gieseking.us/2013/10/new ... ft-vase-2/. Folded from one uncut rectangle of Elephant Hide, painted before folding with metallic acrylic paint.

[JamesOrigami490]

Wow! Multiple diagonal shifts? You must be the official master of the vases! Great work as always!