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”
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 57
Some days I don’t have an abundance of floral materials, and today was one of those days. I got home very late and that wasn’t expected. Too late to forage
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 56
Tonight my arrangement was done late in the day, a challenge since I was very tired. Trying to be complex or unique gave way to simplicity. A cluster of catalpa
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 55
My idea for today’s arrangement was using only items I could find on a neighborhood walk, and I thought it would be easy. Living in the city I often find