I designed this shark in mid-August 2024, my only new animal model for that year. It’s an efficient model of about 25 steps that works especially well as a wetfold. Its main distinction is the clean look, the unbroken expanse of skin along its body. A crowdpleaser at the March 2025 OrigamIsrael Convention, I taught it as a dryfold-then-wetfold using the fancy Arches 300gsm all-cotton-rag watercolor paper, in large (58 cm) squares that we colored on the spot. An enjoyable first experience for I think all workshop participants.
The talented Sima Rolnick came prepared—for we’d schemed this in advance—and then and there, out of her modulars and the workshop’s dryfold residuals, assembled this gorgeous pelagic mobile.
And now one of my wetfold sharks is at a museum in the Czech Republic, as part of the Senbazuru exhibition that opens in a few days. More on that soon.
Cheers!
Saadya
