365 Days of Ikebana-Day 90
Disassembling and rearranging the materials, I changed the appearance of a stem of papyrus and a chinese lantern to make my own composite flower. It’s a great exercise to see
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365 Days of Ikebana-Day 89
My freestyle ikebana arrangement for today with green china berries, whorled begonia leaf and plumosa fern. The berries were the starting point for the arrangement and I realy wanted to
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 88
Simple and easy tonight, I wanted to show the shape of the opening of the black vase. Using the yellow calla lilies was a perfect fit in shape of flower
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 87
Colors in the same tonal range or vertical composition? The answer is that they are both. The combination of yellow pincushion protea, dried bird of paradise leaf and hosta leaf
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 86
These yellow calla lilies grabbed my attention today, I wanted to use them with a clear vase and show their play in the water. Curved lines of callas swimming in
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 85
Today was a day for me to try reilling my creative well by going to see art at some of the museums here in Washington,DC. It was tiring, but well
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 84
This morimono is from my Saga Goryu Ikebana class today. The morimono in Saga is largely landscape based and are meant to convey scenes around bodies of water. Fall flowers,
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 83
This glass vase is challenging to work with, but the more I do the more I understand the possibilities it holds. I had some white cymbidium orchid blooms I wanted
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 82
Simplified expression is the ikebana of the day, made of stacked hosta leaves and clusters of yellow craspedia (one of my all time favorite flowers). The hosta leaves are massed
365 Days of Ikebana -Day 81
Some vases or containers are not easy to design in, and this particular vase is one of them. I wanted to revisit it(and I will again and again) to see