365 Days of Ikebana-Day 33
At home for the day, before heading back to our retreat. I brought a touch of the bay back with me, a few small pieces of driftwood. In the garden
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 32
This week I have scouted out a few places along the stretch of beach here on the bay outside our artist’s “retreat” to use to make my daily arrangements. It’s
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 31
My walk along the beach today yielded lots of options for today’s ikebana. I found some wild hot pink sweet peas, black roots, a small piece of driftwood, an oyster
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 30
As promised I did an arrangement with some grasses, which I thought were bulrushes at first, and used them to make lots of straight lines. The patterns are much like
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 29
This freestyle ikebana arrangement was done with some quickly gathered materials this evening. We’re on an artist’s “retreat” for a while. I found some variegated euonymus, roses, porcelain berry, crape
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 28
For the last few days I have had some boxwood clippings just waiting to be used. They are short and I thought they might be good for some type of
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 27
This has been the most difficult day so far, I ran out of steam and energy after a long day. It has really mad me realize what a difficult project
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 26
Another try at manipulating leaves, this time with monstera leaves and a differeent technique for the equisetum. The monstera leaves I cut into “squares” to try to give them a
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 25
A single bloom of blue clematis and some fantail willow made for a lovely ikebana arrangement today. I had a rock that I wanted to use today to make another
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 24
This arrangement is made using a technique called “hana kubari”, it’s basically a way of using natural materials as the fixture to hold a flower or flowers in place. The