Saturday 21 January 2012

Rise: Sayuri

Materials: Easter oil plant, Common cockcomb

To see more of Sayuri's works, visit the links below.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002168276537
http://www.geocities.jp/naonn_rose/naonn.html

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Early Spring: Sayuri


Materials: Nandina, Iris, Freesia

Sayuri is an award wining Ikebana artist living in Chiba, Japan. Thank you very much for sharing your work with us!

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Basic Style: New Students




Our new term started this week and we welcomed several new students.  These are the works by three of our new students, Azumi (top), Rebecca and Dannie. All of them made the same basic style very well.




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Free Style: Julie

Creating an overall design using one type of material is always good training.

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Free Style: Maddie

Maddie meditated well how to use her ball shape container.

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Free Style: Marian


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Free Style: Aileen


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Free Style: Lea



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Free Style: Natasha


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Basic Style: Heather

Heather is now confortable with Nageire style arrangements. While you are studying basic styles, focus on learning basic styles. Then, you can learn how to talk to the flowers. Once you learned how to communicate and meditate with flowers, you can enjoy making free styles. Making free styles without talking to flowers is waste. Shoso Shimbo

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Free Style: Teresa


Teresa made her first free stye using one of her new containers.

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Basic Style: Roslyn


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Free Style: Lucy



Before and after: Lucy wanted to emphasize the design of her new container. Which do you like better?   

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Monday 16 January 2012

Homework: Lea






I've attached some photos of the floral arrangements I've done over the holidays. They're not exactly ikebana though..... I've been doing more "normal" floral arrangements for some reason. I need to get back into ikebana! 

I'll see you Thursday night for the first class of 2012.

Cheers,
Lea

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