Paper stuff

Origami/Kusudama

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Hydrangea / Shuzo Fujimoto / 30 units

The design was by Shuzo Fujimoto, but a few artists had modified it into making it into a modular piece. For the assembly, Michal Kosmulski created a tutorial to make it in to a modular piece. Its a really nice to see it as a modular piece but it was really time consuming to make so i’d probably suggest just making the cube instead of just dying to make a 30 piece unit (unless you’re into that sort of thing).

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Ostara Star / Maria Sinayskaya / 30 Units

Hellooooo there guys. I know I haven’t been posting a lot lately, but honestly I haven’t had too much time make origami pieces. Not only that I don’t typically use Tumblr as much as I used to. But now I typically use other sites now like Flickr and Instagram. Sooo if you want to see more of my current its probably best to go to my sites. 

Anyways, Maria Sinayskaya was very kind enough to share her diagrams with me, so with that I was pretty excited about it. The paper I used was labeled as “gift wrapping paper” but now that I see it it’s probably Hanji (which makes sense bc i got it from a korean gift shop). If not it was definitely some sort of tissue paper. I used water colors on this paper and surprisingly didn’t rip. But I don’t think I’d recommend this for kusudamas in general just because its not as crisp as regular paper and cutting it isn’t as clean as i wanted to be. But maybe ill try experimenting more with it since I really did enjoy the look of this piece.

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Rubin / Ekaterina Lukasheva / 30 units 

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Patricia / Ekaterina Lukasheva / 30 units

Probably not the best paper for this model, but i really wanted to use this holographic paper I had. 

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Morganite / Ekaterina Lukasheva / 30 units

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Argentum / Maria Sinayskaya / 30 units 

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No name / Akizhi / 30 units

I ended up designing a new origami piece that has a pop-up feature to it :D. 

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Karin / Mio Tsugawa / 120 units

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Hathor / Ekaterina Lukasheva / 30 units

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Starline / Uniya Filonova / 30 units

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Metal Crystal / Ekaterina Lukasheva / 30 units

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Hey, wanted to let you know that a couple of your models showed up on tumblr origamidotme, reposted & linked from Flickr. They're credited to you but I still wasn't sure you'd be ok with that.

I did give permission for them to post my pictures as long as they gave credit, thank you for looking out for me! :D

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Centaurea Jacea / Ekaterina Lukasheva / 30 units 

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What is your secret for a so white background?

Really no secret at all! It’s just using photoshop to edit it out. I typically take my photos in a light box that I made which is just a regular box that I cut holes in it and then put some fabric to cover it and I use a white poster board (the non glossy side).

The best results I have is using natural lighting since it’s a lot easier to edit out than something like artificial lighting hard since it’s can be yellow. And pretty much after that I adjust the lighting by using curves and levels I photoshop, I also use the magic wand tool to separate the background and the origami piece so i lighten/whiten the background without affecting the origami piece. There might be better ways in going about this but this is something that I ended up while editing photos.

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Fiction / Ekaterina Lukasheva / 30 units

Hey guys! Sorry for not..really uploading photos (gotten pretty lazy) but I have been making stuff though! Its just that I’m not super great at uploading consistently (as you can tell) but I do end up uploading batches at a time, buttt its on my flickr. Feel free to follow me on my instragram and flickr (although flickr is the one i usually upload the most on.) 

Flickr / Instagram

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Model: Magic Star

Designed by: Ekaterina Lukasheva

Units: 30

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Model: Cute

Designed by: Ekaterina Lukasheva

Units: 30