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Hello all,
My arrangement, above was made using two Pinellia Pedatisecta leaves and five orange dahlias. In the photographs only four flowers are visible. The fifth is sitting low at the back.
I usually start my classes on the first week of February. This year students indicated that they would like to start earlier and I was happy to oblige. So, we had a lesson in last week of January. The theme for the advanced students was an easy one. They were to make a freestyle, summer arrangement.
Jenny used a single kahili ginger flower and variegated New Zealand flax in a tall vase, which she chose for the colour which is picked up by the pistils of the flower.
Nicole chose the fiery colours of orange crocosmia and red dahlias in a black container with two openings.
Lucy had a newly acquired and as yet unused, ceramic container with many 'pods'. She used a branch of a very special rose. It was gift from our auntie, whom we lost 12 years ago. She also used yellow cone flowers (Echinacea paradoxa) and stems of viburnum opulus.
Wendy's curriculum lesson was 'Focusing on the Uses of Water'. She placed a single strelitzia reginae flower head into a large, rectangular vase, drawing the eye to the inside of the vase and the water.
Shaneen's lesson was 'Shape of the Container'. She used a ceramic container with a curved opening, which, unfortunately is not visible in the photo. She repeated that curve on the umbrella grass stems that she wired together and finished the arrangement by placing a hydrangea coming from the back.
Dianne's lesson was 'Repeating Similar Forms or Shapes'. She curled the tops of variegated New Zealand flax and placed them, coming forward, in a heavy, ceramic container with two openings. Three orange kniphofias played a secondary role to the flax.
Lei's lesson was from Book 5 - 'Composition with Branches - A Two Step Approach'. The first part of this exercise is to create a free standing structure using cut branches...
...Then a container is used with the structure, into which fresh material can be placed. Lei used a ceramic suiban with a bark-like exterior and added a single belladonna lily (Amaryllis belladonna).
The next two photographs are of quite a large summer arrangement of mine, using seven different materials. See if you can spot the differences.
Ok. I'll tell you. This is an exercise in trimming. In the first arrangement the miscanthus is left untrimmed and in its natural state. I felt that it looked a little messy. Admittedly. this is a lot more noticeable in the photograph than in reality where the spaces between the materials is obvious. In the second photo the long, unruly leaves of the miscanthus have been trimmed and, I feel, the arrangement looks better.
Bye for now,
Emily
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