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Origami Turkey Vulture

Turkey vulture is a type of vulture whose head and color just happened to look like wild turkey. They are frequently seen in San Jose and its surrounding wilderness, slowly soaring and gliding on low altitude. Their V-shaped soaring pose with occasional wobble is rather unique, so it is easy to identify them. I wanted to design a simple local fauna, which can be taught in the future local convention (EBOC). This turkey vulture is designed based on how I usually see them: during soaring. I have to give correct color change on the wings and tail feather. Its head is supposed to be red, but it's a shame that paper has only 2 sides and therefore, 2 colors. Just think of this as juvenile turkey vulture whose head is still brown. Design Let's begin with the features of turkey vulture in flight: Broad wings with primary feathers on the tips. Those feathers will be represented simply with pleats, no need to use individual flaps like what I used for condor.
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Origami Crocodile

A simple crocodile foldable with any regular paper in 15 minutes.
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EBOC 2024

Another year with EBOC (East Bay Origami Convention)! I enjoyed spending time with fellow local folders, and exchange knowledge via teaching or chatting while chilling. Had a lot of fun on these two days (16th to 17th March 2024), so I will share my experience on this post. Of course, this is a late post. 
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Origami Earwig v1.1

Earwig is a ground dwelling insect in the order of dermaptera. They look scary because of a large pincer at the end of their abdomen. However they aren't capable to badly hurt us. I have never seen them in Asia, but they are abundant in North America.
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PCOC 2023

After waiting for months. it was time for Pacific Coast Origami Convention a.k.a PCOC, which apparently is read like "peacock". It is a regional conference held every two years. This year's host was San Francisco, on 26th-30th October 2023. I live just 1 hour train ride there, so it was a perfect opportunity to get a taste of an origami convention. The special guests are Robert Lang and Tomoko Fuse. I am obviously a fan of Lang, but I haven't done any origami related to Fuse. Though I know that she has done a lot of respectable stuff. Pre-Convention I set several goals before attending: Participate in exhibition Teach a class Get Lang's autograph on my copy of Origami Design Secrets Hangout with origami people as much as possible Participate in design challenge Once registration opened, we could sign up to set up exhibition and teach a class. I signed up to teach  my halibut  which should be doable within 2 hours.  I contemplated whether or not to stay at Parc 55
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