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Origami Tsuru (Orizuru)

This was the very first oil painting I ever completed. The assignment was to paint a still-life of our own composition. I found a box of old orizuru that my sister and I had folded as children and used glued them onto a board for my subject.

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Origami Tsuru (Orizuru)
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As a child, my sister & I would fold origami tsuru (orizuru). Years later, while searching for a still-life subject, I discovered an old shoebox filled with our clumsily constructed … More »


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