July 4, 2013
Summer Breeze
A hot summer day calls for cool colored summer flowers. Everything was either grown in our garden or collected by me this morning in the neighborhood. My low key version of fireworks.
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Tag: calla lilies
June 28, 2012
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 347
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365 Days of Ikebana-Day 336
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365 Days of Ikebana-Day 323
After a few week hiatus our Sogetsu ikebana class resumed tonight, everyone was eager to get back into our ikebana work. We were given our choice of several materials to work with and asked to choose a lesson based on those materials. I opted for the sunflowers, sanseveria, equisetum and calla lillies to do mass […]
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365 Days of Ikebana-Day 205
I’m in love with this ikebana I did tonight, simple and sleek. The dried banana leaf is just amazing. Dried leaves of all shapes and sizes really do work well for ikebana, so you should save some of your fresh leaves from arrangements(or from your household or summer plants) and dry them.
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365 Days of Ikebana-Day 204
Tonight I went to my Sogetsu ikebana class to take a lesson. We were given calla liles, strelitzia leaves and galax to work with and asked to choose a lesson that would suit the materials. We chose to do “vertical composition”. After class I brought the materials home and remade it to photograph, not easy […]
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365 Days of Ikebana-Day 154
In this design I used a blue container with some large garden calla lilies, white ginestra and some painted silver eucalyptus (I didn’t paint it, it was recycled material). The color blue can symbolize peace, calm, stability, security, loyalty, sky, water, and cold. White is a sacred and pure color and can also represent reverence, […]
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365 Days of Ikebana-Day 96
My arrangement started out very flashy and, very honestly, overworked. I think I may at some point post selections of the ikebana pieces that got a thumbs down, just for fun. For today it was better to be simple and work in a small ikebana vase. The materials are black calla lilies, a begonia leaf […]
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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 and strong color to play off the black. It shows off the odd opening on the side of the vase and uses it to a […]
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