KSKeith Stanley

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Tag: floral design

January 21, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 188

Today the Sogetsu Washington,DC branch held a workshop with member demonstrator Yoko Sprague leading the workshop with the theme of “Celebrations in Red and White”. She gave a really creative and interesting demonstration and then members had 30 minutes to create their own ikebana works based on this theme with the materials they had brought […]

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January 19, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 186

I’m away from home today, but still working on daily ikebana. Luckily my partner’s mother has a large selection of vases to work with, and some quince branches in bud. Quince is such great material if you have it, and this time of year it is widely available in wholesale and retail florists. Lots of […]

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January 16, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 183

Ikebana with staight lines from my Sogetsu ikebana class tonight, it was too big to get a photograph during class so I had to bring it home and remake it. Still it was too big to photograph straight on so I stood on a chair. The materials I used are red stick dogwood branches and […]

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January 13, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 180

After working on an arrangement which might be more expected today, I chose to strip it down and go in another direction. It’s different, not what I’d call a “pretty” arrangement but more in the direction I want my work to go. Playing with the elements today was more of an exploration of what they […]

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