Autumn modular origami. Modular origami - Autumn

A LITTLE ABOUT THE WORK  Such dolls can be made as a gift for the holiday. After all, they are not just dolls, but rather a symbol of a beautiful dream, lofty relationships. The technique for performing these characters is a kind of modular origami.  The name of this technique is very beautiful: Flower dolls. And it is called so because the whole craft is made from the modules of the classic Superball kusudama.  Superball is sometimes called Flower Kusudama or Carnation Kusudama.  This exquisite kusudama consists of forty identical modules that are stitched into a ball. And from individual modules of different sizes, you can make all kinds of dolls.  The module may not seem too easy at first, but after some practice, even elementary school students can easily complete it.

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TOOLS AND MATERIALS  Paper  White  Colored  Scissors  Toothpick  Paints  Cotton wool  Glue

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PREPARATORY STAGE  Take paper for making modules. You can use both double-sided colored paper and single-sided.  Cut out square sheets of paper.  For the dress and petticoat - 2 squares with a side of 21 cm (color and white),  sleeves and cuffs - 4 squares with a side of 10 cm (2 colored and 2 white),  wreath - 9 squares with a side of 7 cm (color according to desire).  Fold the Kusudama Superball modules from these sheets (next slide)  When I first assembled this module, I wanted to quit working several times. After the third module, everything began to turn out by itself.

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1 6 2 7 3 8 9 1. Turn the square back to you. Bend and straighten diagonally. Turn over. 2. Bend and straighten in half vertically and horizontally. Turn over. 3. Fold along all the marked lines at the same time. To do this, bring together the two halves of the horizontal diagonal. Top and bottom should be two squares. 4. It turned out base form Double square. 5. Fold to the middle. 4 10 5 11 12 13 6. Open the pocket and flatten it out. 7. This is what the opening pocket looks like. 8. Scroll to the right. 9. Do the same with the other pocket and also with the two back pockets. 10. Open the piece in front of you with the empty side. Fold towards the middle. 11. Fold up the corner. 12. Scroll through the sectors and perform operation 10 - 11 three more times. 13. It turned out such a figure. Now it needs to be fully expanded.

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14. It turned out the original sheet of paper, but with the intended folds. 15. Press in the middle to make the sheet concave. Now we assemble the final module. Let's start from the top left corner. Take hold of the edges of the square where the dotted lines are. Bring the folds back, around the corner of the square. The folds marked with a dotted line should meet at the back, at the diagonal of the square. 16. Here's what it looks like. Fold to the middle along the previously marked folds. 17. Fold the corner inward. 14 18 15 19 16 20 18. Turn the right side of the resulting figure to the left. 19. In the same way, fold the next corner of the square. And again bend the sides and fold the corner. 20. Flip all the resulting sectors to the left and perform the same folding on the remaining two corners of the square. 21. This is how the resulting module looks like from the end. 22. This is how the module looks from the side. 17 21 22

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DECORATION OF THE HEAD  Wrap a cotton ball about 2.5 - 3 cm in size on a toothpick. Coat with PVA glue, dry. Cover with corrugated paper.  When the glue dries, draw a face with felt-tip pens or paints.  To make the hair, take 3x6 cm strips of paper and cut a very thin fringe. Then cut into narrower strands.  Using a toothpick or scissors, curl the curls.  Stick the hairstyle to the head.

Hat for autumn ball do it yourself

Koroleva Elena Yurievna, teacher of vocational training, OGKOU Nikolskaya boarding school of type VII - VIII, Kostroma region, district.

Description:

This workshop is for middle and high school students. school age, teachers additional education, caregivers, teachers, and parents. The master class makes it possible to independently make an element of the Autumn costume.
One of the first events in the new academic year dedicated to the beautiful season - autumn. Conduct children's art competitions natural materials. In my class, one student is fond of modular origami, and I suggested that he model "Autumn". When modeling the head, we thought about the headdress. We've got a great hat.

The competition "Miss Autumn" was announced homework- to make a costume element. We completed the task very quickly. to make a hat with our own hands.

Arouse the desire to create beautiful things with your own hands;
- develop imagination, aesthetic taste;
- cultivate a sense of beauty, accuracy.
Materials used - 11 sheets of red, yellow and brown, 1 sheet of thick cardboard, scissors, glue, pencil, ruler, maple leaf template.

How to fold a triangular origami module

1. Fold a rectangular sheet in half and in half again..

2. The first fold is aligned with the second on one side.
On the other hand, repeat the action.

3. Open the figure and lift the edges up.

4. Bend the corners through the large triangle.

5. Warm up. Again, fold the small triangles along the marked lines.

6. Pull the edges up. Bend in half.

The resulting module has two corners and two pockets.
Collapse 9 modules of each color.

You can also trace the maple leaf template along the colored side of the paper, making the outline not very smooth. This makes the leaves look brighter. We draw veins.

Cut out 6 leaves: two of each color and 8 strips 15 wide, 120 long

Cut out a ring from thick cardboard. Inner diameter 190, outer 215.
Colored paper ring (we have yellow color) inner diameter 170, outer 235.

Let's start assembling.

Collecting modules. We insert the corners into the pockets.

We connect in a ring, align it with a paper ring.

To fix the modules and stiffen the hat, we centralize and glue a cardboard ring.

We make markings on a cardboard ring, divide into 8 equal parts. Glue 8 strips, directing them to the center.

Glue a ring of colored paper on top.

We glue the free ends of the strips in space with an overlap of 15-20mm

Glue maple leaves evenly over the fields.

We glue the sheet with the sheet in space at the points of contact.

This is what the hat looks like from the other side.

The hat is ready.

Templates autumn leaves

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The tradition of making autumn crafts with your own hands is rooted in ancient times. Once upon a time, man made the greatest discovery: food can be grown. Survival was now almost guaranteed, and there was time to think about higher things. From the threshold of winter cold and famine, autumn has become a harbinger of long rest and holidays after hard field work. And it's still warm in the forest, there are mushrooms and berries. The game has grown fat over the summer, its flair, hearing and vigilance have become dull - it’s good to hunt. In the rivers and lakes there is an autumn bite, so there will be meat and fish for the winter. In general, in winter it became satisfying, but boring, so I wanted to keep the charm of my eyes longer ...

From which only reminders of the joyfully sad wonderful time of the quiet withering of nature are still not made with their own hands: from simple autumn bouquets, the material for which you just need to collect and put in a vase, to complex figures and compositions that require extraordinary imagination and fine work, see fig. They all have one thing in common: the ability to discern the hidden essence of a thing and extend its natural life cycle as far as possible.

Some argue that autumn compositions of fresh flowers, vegetables and fruits are akin to the Buddhist-Tibetan mandala. But the monks, hiding from everyone, carefully remove it for a year with colored sand, so that later they themselves can sweep it away, in commemoration of the futility of all things. And the compositions on the theme of golden autumn, although short-lived, wither in a natural order and manage to please many before that. However, let's not philosophize about both worldviews. We will see how to make autumn crafts more durable, capable of reminiscent of the sad beauty of the withering of nature, at least until spring. But let's not forget about the golden autumn either ...

A significant part of the fruits of autumn creativity are figurines of people and animals. They need eyes. Traditionally, very expressive, but, alas, short-lived eyes are obtained from the fruits of the snowberry - a common shrub in the middle latitudes, see fig. For clear pupils, small rounded black seeds can be stuck into them, for example. mouse peas.

Eyes that can live with the figure all its life can be made from pasted pieces of white and colored felt, like all other additional elements, see fig. left. Its full-fledged substitute, and more affordable and easy to use, is geofabric (geofilm). The one that covers greenhouses and greenhouses. You can color it with felt-tip pens.

The details of handicrafts are usually glued with PVA, Moment, etc., but recently acrylic glue has been increasingly used. Non-toxic instant cyanoacrylate, but water based. It is safe, easy to peel off the body. From the hair - with a comb moistened with water. The same goes for acrylic varnishes and paints.

Children love to express the emerging personality in autumn creativity. Children's crafts are highly desirable, even necessary, to create without the use of piercing and cutting objects. There is also a traditional way of connecting - matches. But they are blunt, too soft and peel acorns, chestnuts, beans, etc. pierce with difficulty and inaccurately. Nowadays, instead of matches, it is better to use toothpicks: they are harder wood, and their tips are sharp enough to pierce the seed coat, but not so much as to injure children's fingers.

Muzzles, paws, and other small animals are most often molded from plasticine. If we are talking about durable products, it is better to replace it polymer clay(plastic, cold porcelain). Plastic can be done at home with your own hands. Raw materials are inexpensive and available, but the cooking process itself is quite laborious. But 300-350 g of plastic obtained at a time is enough for a whole collection of trinkets. Plastic easily accepts painting and varnishing with acrylic, processed with a knife and an awl. Well, we will recall other autumn craft tricks along the way, in relation to a specific material.

cones

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Cones are not only on pines, spruces and cedars. Cone-bearing plants also include those that not all botanists call conifers. For example, species and garden form of arborvitae. In cultural plantations, they are common up to St. Petersburg. Tui cones are small, but varied, see fig. From them you can make various complementary elements in the general spirit of cone compositions.

Juniper cones do not look like cones either, rather like berries, on the right in fig. they make good and durable pupils of the eyes and noses of little animals. There is no need to look for the now rare and legally protected juniper: its cones medicine and sold dry in pharmacies.

Note: sometimes araucaria is grown in rooms. This is also a cone-bearing plant with small very original cones.

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Mini-crafts come out already from the 1st cone, there would be enough imagination and vigilance. By the way, in pos. 1 fig. on the hedgehog's back are the very cones of araucaria that were discussed. But back to fantasy. The cone is most often viewed from the side of the splayed scales. And if you just look from the bottom, "at the ass?" See what might be there, pos. 4? Baba Yaga with a walking fly agaric instead of a goblin or Kashchei, pos. 5 - this is quite in the spirit of a dense forest from Russian fairy tales, but crocodiles do not eat cones and do not live in pine forests with spruce forests, like penguins, pos. 6 and 7.

Note: acorns organically fit into crafts made from cones, which we will recall later.

Cone Techniques

Cones are firmly glued with any wood glue, so simplest way collect crafts from them - pasting with cones of a suitable base. This is how hedgehogs, so popular now, are made from cones and plastic bottle, on the left in Fig. But the cones can also interlock on their own if they are stuck into each other with scales in the center. For strength, a few drops of glue are allowed into the joints.

In the same technique of mutual coupling, baskets are made from cones. But here, for greater strength, it is desirable to reinforce the product with a flexible electrical wire in isolation, on the right in Fig. Especially if the basket is not just a decoration, but also a household item - a vase for sweets, etc.

Sometimes crowns of autumn dry trees - topiaries are collected from cones. To do this, you will have to use an awl or a micro-drill with a thin, 0.7-1.2 mm drill. In the stem, the cones from the rear (where the tail was) are drilled or pierced with a blind hole with a depth of approx. 1 cm. Then glue is dripped into it and a harsh or nylon thread is immediately pushed with a toothpick. The toothpick is broken off, leaving a plug in the hole. As an option, but much less convenient, a thin wire with a bent end is inserted directly into the glue. With the tails of a cord or wire, the cones are attached to the stem, starting from the bottom. The tails of the upper ones, which are already difficult to tie, are passed through the crown with a crochet hook and knitted at the bottom.

Cone flowers are also a very popular craft. There are 2 ways in use here: either the top of the cone is bitten off with wire cutters, and the scales are broken, on the left in the figure, or the bottom of the cone will be the corolla of the flower, on the right. Paint in both cases acrylic paint.

Speaking of hedgehogs

Among autumn crafts hedgehogs occupy a special place. They make needles from sunflower or acacia seeds, straws, yarn, etc., see fig. Even from pine nuts, at current prices! The work is painstaking, but a completely plausible hedgehog comes out of a whole sunflower basket with a scraped loose core and cut edges, on the right in fig. So that the seeds do not fall out, its back is dug from a PVA medical syringe or transparent acrylic varnish diluted two to three times with water. In any case, it is better to mold the base from plastic.

Is there another way to do autumn hedgehog from the 1st cone, and not only a hedgehog. This is also quite painstaking work, although not as much as in the previous one. case: the needles are stuck between the scales. In order not to fall out as it dries, they dig in glue. You can also stick twigs, leaves, etc., depending on the plan, see next. rice.

chestnuts

Horse chestnut fruits are not as durable as cones: by spring, the core dries out, the crust fades and becomes brittle. But fresh chestnuts are very smart, and beautiful crafts you can create from chestnuts right there, right on the street, walking with children. For example, it is enough to add eyes to the chestnuts in the plush, and you get funny faces, on the left in Fig. From the husked ones, figures like a snowman are also assembled right on the spot on matches, toothpicks or twigs, on the right in the figure; mouth, nose, eyes can be pierced and scratched with a penknife. True, there is no chestnut-colored snow even in areas of man-made disasters, so children call such figures (at least they used to call them) “fried scarecrow-mewed”.

The trace from the plush on the chestnut seed is wide and looks like a monkey muzzle, therefore, like a hedgehog from cones, so from a chestnut, the most common craft is a monkey figurine. As for the other figures, then it's only a matter of fantasy; see some samples on the next page. rice.

Here, as mentioned above, it is better to use toothpicks instead of matches. Firstly, you do not have to prick chestnuts many times. Secondly, complex three-dimensional compositions can be assembled from chestnuts on toothpicks, such as models of chemical molecules, pos. 1 in fig. on right. Volumetric chestnut things with a seemingly solid surface (topiary crowns, vases, baskets) are already assembled on a propylene thread or nylon cord using a sewing needle. Quite wide gaps between chestnuts need to be covered with something, acorns and beans are most suitable for this, pos. 2.

In complex autumn-themed compositions created at home, mushrooms are often made from chestnuts, cutting through the peel along the equator and cutting off the core, so you get something similar to a boletus, porcini or Polish mushroom. To imitate butter and mossiness mushrooms, it is better to put an acorn on the leg, fastened to the hat with a piece of toothpick. The underside of the hat is tinted with acrylic paint, see fig. left. And to get a boletus or a fly agaric, they already paint a hat.

Leaves

Autumn leaf crafts are the most common. Immediately on a walk from the leaves, you can weave a wreath on your head - which of the girls in childhood did not feel like a princess in it? A wreath of fallen leaves is made in the same way as a wreath of wild flowers, see the video below. You just need to take leaves with long petioles - maple - and in the southern regions plane trees are suitable.

Video: a wreath of leaves - an example of manufacturing

The dead leaf is considered a very short-lived material: it is only suitable for work for a few hours, then it dries up and becomes brittle or rots. Crafts from autumn leaves without additional preparation and processing are kept in a room with moderate humidity for 2-4 weeks. But what is this preparation with processing?

In order for crafts from autumn leaves to last until spring, or even several years, you will need:

• PVA glue or water-polymer emulsion. It is sold in packages of 5 liters for construction and woodwork, but this is the same PVA, highly diluted.
• Acrylic water-based varnish.
• Distilled water in an amount sufficient to dilute the varnish and PVA (if there is no emulsion) by 3-5 times. Distilled water can be bought at any pharmacy with a prescription department.

The essence of the method is in distilled water. To impregnate wood, PVA can be diluted with ordinary tap water. good quality, but in order to make the fallen leaves suitable for finer work and to secure the entire product, there should be no dissolved salts in the water. Step-by-step instruction increasing the ornamental qualities of a fallen leaf and strengthening autumn leaf crafts is simple:

1. We dilute the varnish and, optionally, PVA, 3-5 times. Thus, we obtain a bactericidal water-repellent impregnation-plasticizer and varnish-fixer. The proportion is not critical, solutions in tightly closed containers are stored for a long time;
2. Leaves that are not yet brittle are cleaned of dirt with a soft toothbrush and rinsed in tap water;
3. Then we blot them with a paper towel or napkin and dry them not in direct light and not near heating appliances;
4. When there are no visible drops and a film of moisture left on the leaves, we treat with a soft brush on both sides with a water-polymer emulsion or diluted PVA;
5. After the impregnation has dried (1-3 hours), we put the leaves into work. You can only glue them with PVA or acrylic glue!
6. Finished product several times, until it ceases to be absorbed, coated with fixative varnish;
7. After the fixative dries, the craft can be opened for strength and gloss with undiluted acrylic varnish.

It is best to fix leaf applications on paper in this way. They can hang on the wall in their original form for several, up to 10 or more years. If autumn leaf pictures are created using this method for kindergarten or school, it is possible to create a large gallery for several generations of children, and even a museum.

A little more about applications

Children's works from fallen leaves sometimes participate and take prizes at serious autumn opening days with reputable juries; parents of little writers might then be offered to admit their offspring to a school for the gifted. What criteria do sophisticated art critics and artists use to determine noteworthy works?

The most important thing is laconic expressiveness, it has always been valued and is valued in art. The second condition is the minimum additional materials, coloring and cropping, as in fig. One cannot become an artist without feeling nature, and the feeling of nature largely comes down to the ability to see the hidden expressive possibilities of blanks. Thirdly, some pomp and fine detailing are not forbidden, but without frills and only where they are necessary and appropriate. And, finally, thematic compositions are especially appreciated, where the same set of materials plays with all its facets, as if on a trail. rice.

Cups-vases

The same technique finds application in the creation of three-dimensional objects from leaves. The basis - balloon. Inflatable balls come in different shapes, so it is possible to make autumn cups, vases, jugs using them from leaves. The inflated ball is lubricated with petroleum jelly and pasted over with plasticizer-treated leaves in several layers. After the workpiece dries, the ball is blown off, and the product is fixed and, if desired, varnished.

Trees and bouquets

With phytoplasty (this is the art of creating three-dimensional works of decorative art from leaves), autumn topiaries and bouquets are closely related. The simplest, but quite reliable and natural-looking, base-trunk of an artificial autumn tree is a kraft paper bag crumpled and twisted into a bundle. Branches and branches are obtained by tears of the top, also twisted into bundles. Then the barrel is treated with the same diluted PVA, and then it’s up to your imagination, see fig. on right.

Creating autumn bouquets is a special art, also coming from phytoplasty. In addition to school ones by September 1, they are collected from seasonal cut flowers. The following can be said about autumn bouquets - decorations. First, the bouquet is the same as on the left of the trail. Fig., can be made much more durable, leaving it almost the same in appearance, drying it in the sand. Sand is needed for construction, the finest and yellowest, from relatively soft feldspar with rounded grains, but without a large admixture of iron salts, i.e. not white quartz and not reddish or reddish. You also need a vessel made of thin plastic, in which the bouquet will fit without touching the walls and bottom. Next, we proceed as follows:

1. We take enough sand so that the selected vessel is completely filled with it;
2. The sand is thoroughly calcined on a baking sheet in the oven, and cooled to a temperature of 3-5 degrees above room temperature. Its control is by a thermometer immersed in the sand;
3. We hang the bouquet upside down in the dishes on crossed sticks so that it does not touch the walls and bottom;
4. Gently, smoothly circling the edge with a stream, we fill the bouquet with sand to the top of the dishes;
5. We dry not in direct light and without additional heating in a warm, dry room for 2-3 weeks;
6. We put a container with a bouquet on the edge of a larger vessel;
7. We cut a hole in the bottom of the drying tank with a sharp knife and gradually release the sand;
8. Without turning the bouquet over, we blow off the remaining sand from it with a syringe or a household hair dryer at the lowest power without heating.

The bouquet, which is on the right in fig. - a composition with roses from leaves that is very popular now. Leaves for it need fresh maple leaves. It is not necessary to process them immediately, as described above, the finished product is impregnated and fixed. And how to turn leaves into roses, see the master class in pictures below.

Harvest in the bins…

Compositions on the theme " Golden autumn” is also a separate art, a synthesis of phytoplasty and autumn bouquets, with its own exhibitions and competitions. They are timed, as a rule, for the harvest festival, so the indispensable elements of the golden autumn compositions are the ripe fruits of fields, orchards and orchards in large quantities, see fig.

Here, firstly, we need splendor, symbolizing abundance. Secondly, light, veiled, erotic hints in the form of peppers, etc. are acceptable and desirable. And what is it, because autumn is the time for weddings? In the old days, this had a very definite meaning. It was not customary for newlyweds to delay the conception of offspring. The wife gave birth by the spring, when the mother could already receive fresh food and vitamins. And the baby by his first winter turned out to be so strong that he could survive it, if the year turned out to be lean.

Fallen leaf descendants

Phytoplasty also gave rise to autumn origami. The goal of this trend is to create autumn mood, which is achieved by the basis of dry branches, and the leaves are made of paper, see an example in pos. III fig. The art of paper folding is origami.

There are, so you know, 2 directions of origami: origami-do, or high origami, and modular origami. In origami-do, only 1 solid square sheet of paper is allowed; possibly colored, without cuts, glue and tools. Modular origami objects are glued together from parts and can be painted. Blanks are allowed to be cut.

Which type of origami you like more is up to you. How to fold in origami-do Maple Leaf, given in pos. I; willow - on pos. IV. And how it is done and what the maple leaf of modular origami looks like is shown in pos. V and III respectively.

acorns

Coming to the end of our review of autumn crafts, one cannot help but linger on acorns. For children, acorn toys are a special world, because they see small objects larger, more convex and brighter than adults.

Several types of oaks grow within the Russian Federation, and several more are introduced from Asia and the Western Hemisphere. All of them have different acorns, pos. 1 in fig. With acrylic glue, smooth acorns are glued into complex objects; one example is in Fig. at first. But traditionally, the objects of acorn inspiration are mini-compositions.

If the original cone figurine is a hedgehog, and the chestnut figurine is a monkey, then acorns are also inherent in the manifestation of themselves in microdishes. The acorn service can also be assembled on the spot, pos. 2. Handles - strips of bast or thin bark. Holes for them are pricked with the tip of a penknife. The same service, but with the use of plastic and glue, homemade is possible, pos. 3. Spectacular and minicompositions of acorns on any other subject, pos. 4, it's just a matter of imagination. For example, the original frames are made from acorn caps - plus, pos. 5. How many do you need? Are there few acorns on earth? As much as you like, you can string it on a cord and make an excellent wreath on the door with glue, pos. 6. And only from the 1st acorn and many hats with the same stringing - a snake, see fig. on right.

Here in fig. “for inspiration” we give details of the acorn watchdog and samples of figurines this type. But the little man on the right from the category of “fried stuffed meow” can also be with movable arms and legs. To do this, their acorns are pierced with an awl and the limbs are collected not on toothpicks, but on a copper winding enameled wire with a diameter of 0.6-0.8 mm or pieces of twisted-pair computer cable (“vituha”). The conductors of these wires are made of oxygen-free copper, which can withstand quite a large number of bends. The conductors of electrical wires are thinner, 0.15-0.4 mm, and they are made of ordinary electrical copper, which is more fragile.

The insulation of the “vitukhi” wires is bright multi-colored, so they are well suited for making acorn toys in combination with other natural materials. For a small tutorial on this part with figurine examples, see fig. Beaks are made from sunflower, pumpkin and melon seeds, and a tuft of a bird is made from a corn kernel at the top left.

Note: crafts are made from acorns pierced with wire and painted with acrylic paint - bunches of grapes, olive branches, etc., see fig. on right.

Autumn for adults

Autumn is the same auspicious time for people involved in decorative art from natural materials quite seriously and even professionally. In the rivers in early autumn, low water, time lowest level water. Along the banks here you can find well-ironed and washed-out snags. Root plastic is the art of carving wood on roots and snags, which is based on a successfully found blank.

Later, in the midst of leaf fall and at the end of it, in deciduous forests they look for burls, influxes of wood on trunks. Do not confuse with a boxing mouth guard, a device for knocking out teeth! A cap on a tree is a neoplasm of the masculine gender.

Walnut and oak burls are especially valued, their durability is centuries, and the wood has a very beautiful texture. But they are rare and grow slowly, although the burls on the walnut reach several meters in diameter and weigh several tons. However, these are isolated cases in history. Birch burls are suitable for fun crafts and wooden household items, but in a season they can grow to the size of a child's head and gain full strength by the end of the sap flow.

Equipment for the extraction of snags and burls is placed in a backpack or hung on a belt. This is a small sapper or folding garden shovel, tourist saw and hatchet. The main thing here is to discern a hidden essence in an unsightly growth or a slimy squiggle, see fig.

• needlework

• General repair questions

Autumn Origami

Master class: "Leaf fall"

Application: Work for the exhibition, interior decoration.

Dear friends, we all launched paper airplanes in childhood, made wallets, boats and steamboats out of paper, made caps and hats out of newspapers. And only many years later they learned that paper folding is called beautiful word- origami.

For a long time I look with loving eyes

On ancient Japanese art,

Which is called Origami.

Wizards and magicians are not needed here,

There's nothing to be particularly smart about here.

And you just need to take a piece of paper

And try to put something together.

And I offer you a master class of work made in the technique of modular origami - "Leaf fall".

Material: Required to work colored paper"autumn" shades, ruler, simple pencil, glue (glue stick), gouache, brush

…Look! On dark Christmas trees in the undergrowth

Maple stars burn like pendants.

Bend over for the prettiest leaf

Veins of crimson on gold.

Remember everything, how the earth falls asleep,

And the wind covers it with leaves.

And in the maple grove lighter and lighter.

All new leaves fly off the branches ... ”(V. Berestov)

modular origami - this is an origami style in which the whole figure (work) is assembled from separate parts - modules. There are many varieties of origami modules, both flat and voluminous.

1. In this work, the Shamrock module is used. From these modules you can make various mosaics, applications and bulk products.

2. To fold the module, you need a square piece of paper. Lay it upside down. Bend diagonally and straighten. Fold the edges towards the middle

3. Fold corner up and tuck in

4. Bend the side corners to the middle

5. Now the corners need to be filled inside the workpiece. To do this, unbend the left corner, then unbend the entire left side blanks

6. Fold the corner inward, fold the left side

7. Do the same on the right side

8. Turn the workpiece 180 degrees and fold the edges down

9. Turn the workpiece over to the other side. Fold the edges towards the middle. In this case, the back layer of paper should come up.

10. Glue three modules in the shape of a maple leaf

11. Glue the cuttings to the leaves and “revive” them at your discretion with gouache paints. Make the necessary number of maple leaves for "leaf fall"

And so -

“The golden leaf is already covering

Wet ground in the forest...

I boldly trample with my foot

Spring forest beauty ... ”(A. Maikov)