3 inch 3-stick kite, balloon tissue.
After yesterday’s success with my first star shaped kite, I decided to stick my neck out a little further and try something inspired by a Facebook post from a class at Hiromi Paper in Santa Monica this last week.
My friends Scott Skinner and Jose Sainz have been teaching classes around the country on using three sticks in a variety of shapes and some washi paper to make unique, creative and very organic kites. While it’s not a class I’ve taken (I’ve only taken 3 classes in all my years of kitemaking), I learned tons when they held the class at Oregon Kitemakers Retreat some years ago and encourage anyone that enjoys crafting with paper and/or is a kite enthusiast to go and have fun with these guys if the opportunity to take the class is ever presented.
While the things they were making when I saw them at OKR were very inspiring, I was not in a place to go out and invest in new and different materials for kites that would require very special handling to survive the weather conditions that dominate my local environment. However, since I’m now playing with paper (it’s not quite as cool as washi, but it is paper), I think it’s time to see where I can go with their concepts, but in the dimensions that I’ve been practicing with.
Stay tuned to see where this goes.