KSKeith Stanley

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March 29, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 256

My ikebana today is some work with curved lines using tulips and a painted branch. The last half of the week has been hard for me creatively, I’m just not inspired and I don’t know why. It could be the pollen, or that I am waiting for more variteies of flowers to come into bloom. […]

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March 27, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 254

This green glass vase is one that I love, it has a great shape and the glowing green from the light going through the vase gives me a lift. I think using the lemon as the hana kubari works quite well, it uses form and function to add value to the design. With the addition […]

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March 26, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 253

I used manipulated ti leaves that is curled for this arrangment, one of the leaf curls holds the tulips and narcissus in place in the container. It’s a concept I wanted to try, just to see if it would work and further my ideas. There are two containers, one to hold the leaves and one […]

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March 25, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 252

AT my Saga ikebana class today we continued to do moribana landscapes, each one is based on a location in the different temperate zones from nothern to southern Japan. Today’s landscape is supposed to depict a view from a river gorge bank across the rushing waters to the other side. Cherry branches, asters, wild rose […]

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March 22, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 249

Another try at manipulating ti leaves, I used two today for this ikebana along with a single white narcissus. I curled each ti leaf and made several splits long the curled leaf to form a series of curls in each leaf, and then I put them back to back. For the next few days I […]

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March 21, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 248

I took a small step back into leaf manipulation today with the ti leaf paired with a single Japanese lisianthus bloom. The single bloom is a bit dark, but it was all I had today. Next time a brighter flower and different container. Leaf manipulation really interests me, but I think it could be easy […]

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