Tutorial: Braided Corona Origami Star

I spent half a day ignoring all the “shoulds” on my list.
The result was this spectacular piece of origami.

Braided Corona Star
origami designed by Maria Sinayskaya

I have a collection of old sheet music that I use for just such purposes.

For this project I used 8 pages. Four were painted red, four white. The back of all 8 were painted gold.

After the paint dried I ironed each sheet nice and flat then cut them perfectly square.

There were several steps along the way with this star where I was completely smitten…

… in love with the geometry and beauty of this feat of simple yet complex engineering.

You can find Maria’s step by step and easy to follow video tutorial here:
http://goorigami.com/modular-origami/braided-corona-star/4832

I went back in with more paint after the star was finished and cleaned up some of my messy paint.