Now I’m ready! Tomorrow morning I take the origami train to travel to the OUSA convention in New York. Yay! 
I plan to teach some origami models. I had this idea for a composition-assembly using Román Díaz’ origami frog, Angel Encija’s origami fly and an origami frog tongue of my own creation. The result was this “Frog feeding on a fly”.
I committed a little “origami sin” as I made a small cut in the mouth of the frog to insert the tongue, but the idea seemed so much fun that I went for it. And no glue is used!
I will also teach a snail by Robert Lang shown in a previous entry of this blog.
Teaching is the best way to learn. Now I know these models inside out, by heart.
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Another of my plans at the convention is to participate in the Artist Trading Card event. Here I share the card I prepared. It is called Full Moon Owl.
I used a simple owl model by Robert Neal. Diagrams for this owl are found in a book by Gay Merrill Gross called “Zoorigami. The background was made using photoshop and printing it out on the cards. The moon was colored by hand.
Photos © Leyla Torres
Hi and thanks for being the fastest news to post email on the o-list about the convention. Sadly, i couldn’t attend due to filial duties to my 94 yr young mom…. but I was there in spirit. I hope I get one of your ATCs! I’m a novice ATC-er. I participated in person for the first time last year and I’m trying to do a remote trade!. Is there any way I could get diagrams for that frog/fly model you taught. I think it’s so cute! If so, thanks in advance!
Hi Pam,
Thank you for your visit and comment in this blog.
You can find diagrams for the frog in “Origami Kit for Dummies” by Nick Robinson.
Diagrams for the fly in “El libro de pajaritas” (Grupo Riglos) ISBN 84-206-5563-5.
The tongue is my own creation and I have not made diagrams for it.
I still have a couple of cards to trade… I’ll send you a note.
Leyla