Demonstration Art

Calligraphy

The kanji character below is yuki (snow) for those who want to practice your calligraphy.

Sketches

The simple "snowman" sketch below (modeled by a knitted version) is for practice.

Demonstration Painting

It is a cold night outside in the blizzard. The wind is blowing, and snow is piling up on the ground, on the roofs of houses, and on the windward side of trees. If you look closely, you can see snowflakes falling through the air. People live in the houses. From the smoke coming out of chimneys, you can tell they have fires going in fireplaces. Faint yellow light can be seen through the windows. Cold as it may be outside, the people are warm and cozy inside.

Kirigami is similar to origami in that paper is involved. Unlike origami, kirigami involves cutting the paper to create shapes. Some complex ones can become three dimensional objects without the use of glue. A simple example is paper snowflakes. I show how to make them in this week's Zoom class with a combination folding (i.e. origami) and cutting with scissors.

The first step is to fold a square sheet of paper using the pattern below.

The next step is to draw a design with a pencil on one side of the final folded paper. It doesn't matter which side.

Cut out the pattern. Any residual pencil marks can be erased. After that, carefully unfold the paper. This particular pattern produces the snowflake below.

Here are a couple more snowflakes I made. Can you figure out the cuts needed to make them?

What designs do you think you can come up with? Try experimenting.