RELEF WORKIS

 

Hello all,

The advanced students were set the theme from Book 5 - 'Relief Works', where dried, bleached or coloured materials are arranged on a board, meant to be hung on the wall.

The photograph, above, is of my relief work. I used a painting canvas on which I glued mung beans and black beans and I wired wisteria vine and nandina domestica berries.

Mary, in her arrangement, below, used corrugated cardboard and dried leek flowers. 

Lei created an optical illusion with the gold coloured, magnolia branch, which looks as though it is coming through the board. The kanji characters on the paper were done by Lei. As a focal point she added purple statice.

    

Jenny created a white on white piece using wire and paper to create circles, then added white coloured, Japanese anemones after the petals had fallen. She added a subtle colour with the dried hydrangeas. 

Vicky used a fine squiggly stem and added dried hydrangea flowers and petals.

Lucy used cardboard discs stacked at different heights and with subtle difference in colour, on two boards.

Cymbie used three boards painted in different colours and joined together by a piece of bamboo. She also added a sprig of koala fern at the top.

My favourite camellia, the Kamo Hon Ami, is not doing as well this year as it has previously. However, I was able to cut a few stems to create the arrangement, below. To the uninitiated, it appears that I simply placed the stems in the vase. That's not quite right. It takes some skill and experience to place camellias correctly.

Bye for now,

Emily