Overview
It's fun, it's cool, and it's a great new twist on origami!Introducing "gupit-gupit," a fabulous form of paper crafting from the Philippines that uses scissors and scoring to create fabulous sculptures.
There's nothing like this colorful, engaging book on the market.
Score the paper, make a cut, and give it a fold; that's gupit-gupit, the wonderful art of creating amazing three-dimensional sculptures. The name comes from Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, and it means "cut cut." Master Ben A. Gonzales, a native Filipino, illustrates all the techniques in this unique collection of paper animals--and both kids and adults will love constructing them. It's easy. Each creature is made from only a single sheet, the directions are laid out in a straightforward manner, the patterns and pictures are nice and large, and the book's organization logically proceeds from simple forms (a snake, for example) to the more complicated giraffe. (The number of stars next to each project gives the level of difficulty.) Choose from a butterfly, bear, kangaroo, swan, squirrel, tyrannosaurus rex, whale and many others.
Synopsis
Score the paper, make a cut, and give it a fold; that’s gupit-gupit, the art of creating amazing three-dimensional sculptures. The name comes from Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, and it means “cut cut.” Master Ben A. Gonzales, a native Filipino, illustrates all the techniques in this unique collection of paper animals—and both kids and adults will love constructing them. It’s easy: Each creature is made from only a single sheet, directions are laid out in a straightforward manner, and the nice large patterns proceed logically from simple forms to the more complicated. (The number of stars next to each project gives the level of difficulty.) Choose from a butterfly, bear, kangaroo, swan, squirrel, Tyrannosaurus rex, whale, and many others.
Library Journal
At first glance, the paper animals in this book appear to be a type of origami, but they are actually one-piece paper sculptures. Using techniques learned in his native Philippines, graphic arts teacher Gonzales forms realistic animals from intricately cut and folded plain paper. Children and adults will enjoy making these cleverly constructed creatures that include familiar wild animals and birds and several dinosaurs. Projects are graded by difficulty. This is an appealing book for adult and young adult craft collections in public libraries. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.