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Summary: Learn how to begin work on the tail of an origami bird of paradise with expert tips for a master origami artist in this free online origami craft video clip.
Robert Segundo has been an artist since he could hold a pencil. In his 10 years in graphic design, he has worked on advertising projects with costs ranging in millions of dollars. He...read more
"Now we are going to work on the tail. This here is going to be the head and these are going to be the wings. This is where the tail is going to be. As you can see I already have it precreased a little bit. What I have creased it to is this right here. As you can see here we have this line from the inside here that forms this triangle base. As we close it what we are going to do is we are going to take the tail and crease it up to come to that point there. Like so. We are going to take it and we are going to fold it back down again in fact to where this line and this line meets. Like this. This is going to form the bases for our tail but we are not, this is not how the tail is going to lay. Cause as you can see it is one side and it is not on the other one and this is not very symmetrical. So what we are going to do is open this back up and we are going to open this. What we are going to do is we are going to fold it, reverse fold it in here so it is going to take a little bit of work to get it the way that we want it. Once you reverse folded in there, it should look just like that. "
eHow Article: Working on the Tail of Origami Bird of Paradise
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