KSKeith Stanley

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Tag: narcissus

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 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 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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March 4, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 231

Using the only materials with any color I could find in the garden (spring is here but the blooms are still scarce) I made this small hana kubari. The pussy willow branches are used as natural supports for the flowers, and I left an open area of reflecting water.

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