KSKeith Stanley

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Tag: ikebana

March 29, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 256

My ikebana today is some work with curved lines using tulips and a painted branch. The last half of the week has been hard for me creatively, I’m just not inspired and I don’t know why. It could be the pollen, or that I am waiting for more variteies of flowers to come into bloom. […]

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March 27, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 254

This green glass vase is one that I love, it has a great shape and the glowing green from the light going through the vase gives me a lift. I think using the lemon as the hana kubari works quite well, it uses form and function to add value to the design. With the addition […]

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March 26, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 253

I used manipulated ti leaves that is curled for this arrangment, one of the leaf curls holds the tulips and narcissus in place in the container. It’s a concept I wanted to try, just to see if it would work and further my ideas. There are two containers, one to hold the leaves and one […]

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March 25, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 252

AT my Saga ikebana class today we continued to do moribana landscapes, each one is based on a location in the different temperate zones from nothern to southern Japan. Today’s landscape is supposed to depict a view from a river gorge bank across the rushing waters to the other side. Cherry branches, asters, wild rose […]

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March 22, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 249

Another try at manipulating ti leaves, I used two today for this ikebana along with a single white narcissus. I curled each ti leaf and made several splits long the curled leaf to form a series of curls in each leaf, and then I put them back to back. For the next few days I […]

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March 19, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 246

Once again I thought I wanted to try working with some gypsophila, a material that I still don’t quite understand. It’s an unruly puff of tiny white blooms that I keep trying to use in a pleasing way. maybe it’s that I need to just keep at it until I “get it” . That’s probably […]

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March 18, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 245

Tonight I’m doing ikebana using all flowers, mostly spring blooms from our garden. This is one of the lessons in the Sogetsu textbook and it has no branches or leaves only flowers. Luckily there are lots of flowers blooming in the garden to use, narcissus, hyacinth, muscari, and more. I’m never quite sure about his […]

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