365 Days of Ikebana-Day 67
A short enty since it is so late at night, the manipulated equisetum is from the workshop I helped teach tonight at the Freer Gallery of Art. I brought home
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 66
Every day presents a challenge in getting an arrangement done, some days I am pretty worn out and I am afraid of hitting the wall. Despite the fact that I
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 65
It’s such a simple arrangement, but it makes me laugh a bit. The single peach surrounded by the foxtail millet is like a beach unbrella, or palm tree (or Sideshow
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 64
My return to my Sogetsu Ikebana classes tonight after a brief summer break was a delight. I didn’t have to go cut flowers, or go buy them, I just went
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 63
Autumn leaves called me today, and I collected them one by one. They were massed on a branch to create a hana kubari (flower holder) and a sinble sunflower was
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 62
My daily work keeps drifting back to leaf manipulation, it’s a really dynamic way to add an interesting and different element to designs. Today I started altering a banana leaf
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 61
Miniature ikebana facinates me, it seem so simple but it is hard to do. It takes skill to make something so small look so good. I’m alsways on the hunt
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 60
Autumn blew in this evening dropping the temperature to more seasonal levels, and so I wanted to do an arrangement that echoed that change. I selected some burr oak branches
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 59
Ikebana with flowers only is today’s arrangement. It’s Lesson 1 in book 4 of the Sogetsu Textbook, and of course is only flowers. There should be at least 2 or
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 58
This arrangement was inspired by one of the lessons from the Sogetsu textbook, it’s a newer lesson added when the textbooks were updated a few years ago. “Intertwining Plant Materials”