Easy Origami Birds

Create beautiful paper birds with this easy origami guide, featuring 10 tutorials and 400 pages of high-quality origami paper for you to get folding right away.Provides hours of enjoyment, creating lovely avian designs that can be used for home decor, greetings cards and gifts - or simply just for the fun of folding!Ten step-by-step tutorials show you how to fold a range of gorgeous stylised paper birds, including: swan, crow, crane, duck, owl and cormorantEach tutorial includes written instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams which show you exactly how to fold the paper to achieve a perfect result every timeOnce you have mastered the birds, you'll find 400 pages of coloured and patterned paper sheets that are perforated allowing you to easily remove them and start foldingGorgeous illustrated patterns interspersed throughout the book will give you opportunities to create more colorful birds in actionOrigami is a relaxing and mindful activity that has proven benefits to mental wellbeing, as does being surrounded by nature, so the fusion of these two subjects is a pure delightSo whether you are a total beginner to origami or have been paper folding for years, this book has exactly what you need.

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-organized the Rencontres de Mai (French paper folding congress). His two books (Origami 1 & 2) are published by Éditions Eyrolles.