Easy Origami Sea Life

Create beautiful marine life with this easy origami guide, with 10 tutorials and 400 pages of high-quality origami paper for you to fold straight away. This beautiful book will provide hours of enjoyment, creating lovely marine designs that can be used for home decor, greetings cards, and gifts—or simply just for the relaxing fun of folding!

The ocean voyage starts with 10 step-by-step tutorials showing you how to fold a range of gorgeous stylised paper sea creatures, including: sea lion, fish, ray, shrimp, crab, whale, turtle, sea bird, tropical fish, and dolphin. Each tutorial includes written instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams which show you exactly how to fold the paper to achieve a perfect result every time.

Once you have mastered the folding techniques, you'll find 400 pages of coloured and patterned paper sheets that are perforated, which allows you to easily remove them and start folding. As well as solid colours, gorgeous illustrated patterns are interspersed throughout to give you plenty of opportunities to create colourful sea life in action, or they can be used in your other origami and papercraft projects.

Origami is a relaxing and mindful activity that has proven benefits to mental wellbeing, as does being surrounded by nature, so the combination here is a pure delight. You can create easy paper creatures without getting too hung up on realism or perfection—just enjoy the act of folding and making something beautiful.

Whether you are a total beginner or have been paper folding for years, Easy Origami Sea Life has all you need to create an oceanic menagerie.

AUTHOR: Guillaume Denis worked from 2004 to 2007 for a French publisher as a technical advisor and illustrator for Origami: The Pleasure of Folded Papers. He has been a member of the MFPP (French Paper Folding Movement) since 1990, which publishes the magazine Le Pli, for which he created the original illustrations from 1996 to 2004 and wrote various articles, including one on the art of the diagram for origami models. He has also co-organised the Rencontres de Mai (French paper folding congress). His two books (Origami 1 & 2) are published by Editions Eyrolles.