KSKeith Stanley

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Tag: flowers

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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January 12, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 179

Most of my day was spent seeing art at some of the fantastic free museums we have in Washington,DC. Great for collecting ideas, bad for actual productivity since I got home late. After dinner I did this simple arrangement while visions of grander things danced in my head. All for another day I suppose, but […]

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January 11, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 178

Today I spent some time in the studio, trying to take advantage of the daylight and temperatures above freezing. The space heater helps some, and I hope to be able to get out there a lot in the next few weeks. For the arrangement I did today I used some branches of pussy willow, pink […]

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