Joel Cooper Origami
He has a very distinct style where he uses tessellations and other techniques to create some amazing looking masks that follow an ancient sort of greek or maybe babylonian style.
Joel cooper origami. Maybe not the first place you d think of when you think of origami but a more beautiful site you would be hard pressed to find. I also learn to make masks and have already done 3 masks naiad photo and cp this is a very interesting and fascinating process. Joel cooper is undoubtedly the master when it comes to designing paper masks.
His remarkable three dimensional constructions showcase complex. Cooper employs a specific style of origami called tessellation. Explore joel cooper s 1 142 photos on flickr.
Joel cooper s blog of origami. Other people use papers ranging from relatively thick kraft paper to very thin mulberry paper washi unryu saa etc. A lot of it depends on the kind of tessellations you are folding and how intricate they will be.
Each piece is designed and folded from a single sheet of paper without the use of cuts or glue. My name is timur i am 12 years old. I m from russia yaroslavl.
The origami house is a new museum of origami in the works in historic colonia del sacramento in southern uruguay just across the mouth of the rio de la plata from buenos aires. These complex works of paper manipulation are the origami masterpieces of artist joel cooper. We ve all been impressed by joel s work but like most of the tessellation community he doesn t post creasepatterns for his models.
But unlike a magician he doesn t keep his secret artform to himself he even recently. Mask by joel cooper mask by joel cooper week 12 and we re running out of time again this time around a tessellated mask by joel cooper. Because he doesn t use any glue or cut the paper at all cooper s paper origami skills are a bit like magic.
Origami art by joel cooper artist joel cooper folds simple sheets of paper into striking origami masks and tessellated shapes. There are a lot of really cool looking origami masks out there. It s adorable and perfect.
I don t know what kind of paper joel has used for his origami work. Before he can even begin to design his personable masks an elaborate grid must first be folded into a hexagon shaped piece of paper. In forms that seem inspired by cast bronze or pewter sculptures but with incredible geometric textures these folded masks are made entirely from single sheets of paper by origami artist joel cooper previously.
