Journal archive
March 5, 2012
My design today is using dried, fresh, and unconventional materials. The packing material is one that has fascinated me for a while, so today when I came across some I brought it home to use. AfterI looking at it and twisting, folding and manipulating the shape I had an idea. A dried stem of strelitzia […]
Read story →March 3, 2012
This sweet Japanese vase was brought home to me today by Frederick, so I had to use it right away. It has a great white glaze with some greenish spots, whiich led to my use of green(pine needles) and white(hellebore) to match the vase colors. The pine needles are used as the mechanics to hold […]
Read story →March 2, 2012
It’s a quick short post with a small arrangement tonight. The miniature ikebana was done after sending most of my time working on a larger structure for later next week. To make it a bit more interesting I photographed part of the larger piece with the miniature and posted it below.
Read story →March 1, 2012
Today I gather more of the winged euonymus to use in some designs, and I have placed with it some gypsophila and an anemone. Continuing the study of filler flowers and their use I tried massing the gypsophila into a sort of “cloud” and inserted the anemone in it. Like a puff of smoke or […]
Read story →February 29, 2012
With some dry time in between heavy rains today I was able to gather a few things in the neighborhood to make my arrangement. A couple of cherry branches, one branches of winged euonymus( I MUST get more of it to work with later) and a few narcissus from our garden out back. Together it […]
Read story →February 27, 2012
This is what centered me, and helped provide some calm during a stressful day. It whispered to me “breathe”.
Read story →February 25, 2012
Today I turned my exploration of materials towards filler flowers, the types of flowers that in western designs are used to cheaply take up space between more expensive showy blooms. I’m trying to get a different understanding of how I can use them in ikebana. After a trip to the grocery store for some flowers […]
Read story →February 24, 2012
Some days the ikebana arranging is not so easy, today was one of them. I worked on one design for about 90 minutes, and by the end it looked tortured. In fact it had been. I tried to get the materials to bend to my will, all the quince and other branches had been inserted […]
Read story →February 23, 2012
Something small today, not a miniature but not big either. Safari sunset protea and tulip magnolia branches in a vase that my partner Frederick bought at Miss Pixie’s yesterday. They post pictures on the “window shopping” section of their website that shows items they currently have for sale. I’ve picked up some wonderful ikebana vases […]
Read story →February 22, 2012
After a very low energy day yesterday, I am hoping that this arrangement shows a more energetic day. Maybe the warmer weather and sunshine today helped. I had more open materials to work with today and felt spring in the air, and this is my attempt to bring a bit of that indoors. While I […]
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