New Book - Roman Diaz - Origami Essence

[TERRY Nicolas]

>i really want the book now... but $48 just isnt what i want to spend right now

In fact for Non European, the price is without european fees, so not 32 euro but 30 euro = 44.7 $. And Yes, I know it's still too expensive.
This difference between euro and $ is a pity !

Nicolas

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

I think the term 'Diagrams' is a bit misleading here...

[Daydreamer]

It seems the English/Spanish version doesn't include those diagrams yet. If you take a look at the French or German translations the diagrams are in there.

http://design.origami.free.fr/terry/Ori ... R&Diag.pdf
http://design.origami.free.fr/terry/Ori ... M&Diag.pdf

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Thank you for clarifying that Daydreamer! I just kind of felt that 6 alternate CP's for a frog, and a diagram for a triangle box didn't really deserve as much fanfare as they were being given! This makes more sense

[TERRY Nicolas]

I've update the spanish and english Bonus e-book with the 8 missing diagrams.
You can download the file here : http://design.origami.free.fr/terry/Ori ... P&diag.pdf

We would like to create this e-book as a compilation of all his diagrams taht we couldn't add in the book by lack of space.

Nicolas

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Excellent! Thank you Nicolas!

[WhisperPuffin]

Yes, thanks a lot!

[soneblees]

Thank you for your generousity

[Ariel_A]

In Origami Essence, many of the models rely on color changes for their full effect.
The beautiful "Vixen" model, for example, says:
"Favorite paper: red Tant paper, painted white on one side"
I've folded the model with some thin Duo paper. That was already a lot of fun, but the model really needs better paper to do it justice.
Does anyone have suggestions on what paint to use?
I tried Gouache, but because it is water based, the paper curled something fierce and the coverage was not very even.
Thanks, Ariel

[Rdude]

Well, Michael Lafosse suggests that you use acrylic paint, mixed with an acrylic polymer emulsion (for every 30 grams of paint use 5 grams of emulsion) and blended with an amount of Methylcellulose equal to that of the paint. Spread a slightly dampened sheet of paper onto a sheet of glass, brush on the acrylic mixture and let it dry.

Hope that helps.

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

In my experience, that method kind of bleeds through the entire sheet. You get excellent results, but I think you may just need to backcoat some paper, rather than painting it. But then, I use a bunch of MC dyed with an arbitrary amount of acrylic paint.

[WhisperPuffin]

Colouring the paper with crayon then spraying with fixative works well, but it is pretty labour-intensive. Backcoating with tissue is easier even if it adds slight thickness. If you don't have any Tant, I can bring some to the next Melbourne meeting if you want.

[Ariel_A]

Thanks Rdude, FrumiousBandersnatch and WhisperPuffin!
Those are all interesting suggestions. I'll give it a whirl this week-end.

I do have large sheets of Tant paper, WhisperPuffin and anyhow, it looks like I'll be missing the next two, possibly even three Melbourne meetings.

[aces21]

Colouring the paper with crayon then spraying with fixative works well

This sounds promising, given that I've just bought my 2 year old boy a big box of crayolas.

Based on recent experience, if I just stick my tant paper to the wall then eventually he will go over it all with the crayons thinking it is wallpaper

[WhisperPuffin]

If you're backcoating, make sure you backcoat the Tant to the thinnest white paper you can find, preferably tissue or something similar. They have a large range of nice thin stuff at Melbourne Etching Supplies.