Hello all,
I had set a combined theme for the advanced students - 'With Branches Only' and 'Showing Lines at the Base'. The arrangement, above, is my example. I used one mahonia branch with two flower inflorescences, Siberian dogwood (cornus siberica alba) and beauty berry branch (callicarpa) in a self made, ceramic container.
Jenny used cotoneaster, prunus and abelia in a ceramic trough.
Nicole used pussy willow (salix), wattle and begonia coccinea in a ceramic trough.
Vicky used Siberian dogwood, smoke bush (cotinus -Grace' and Crimson King Maple in a ceramic container.
Lucy also used smoke bush, pittosporum and Crimson King Maple in a ceramic tsubo vase.
Cym used grevillea with most of the leaves removed and 'After Dark' (agonis flexuosa) in an interesting container with several holes.
Mary used wattle, cotoneaster and Siberian dogwood in a ceramic stubo vase.
Shaneen's lesson was 'Fruiting Plant Materials'. She used branches of unripened mandarins and bromeliad flowers - Queens Tears.
This afternoon we had the May Sogetsu meeting and workshop, which was presented by Emerald Leung. She set a combined theme of 'Only one Kind of Material' and 'To be Viewed from all Angles'. Below are three photographs of my arrangement taken from different angles. I used the 'heart' of an agave, from which I separated the layers and revealed these conical tubes. As the pieces get closer to the centre, they are paler, creating interesting variations of green.
'To be viewed from all angles' does not mean that it should simply be pleasant to look at. In fact there needs to be some element or material in each view that is different to the others.
Please go to Sogetsu Ikebana Victoria for photographs of Emerald's examples as well as those of the rest of the attendees.
Bye for now,
Emily
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