Month: April 2017
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Ikebana tips #20: tricky little apertures
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]If, like me, you enjoy using unusual Ikebana containers, you’ve probably come across some with tiny apertures. You know; the ones that are too small for a kenzan: where flower foam would be too messy; and chicken wire too fiddly. And unless you do something, your flowers just will not stay where you want…
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Ikebana tips #19: more from your daffs
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]I suspect that most of us enjoy our daffodils; that burst of colour and energy that heralds the spring and warm weather and lots more flowers to come. But when our daffs are finished, the tempotation is to take off the dead the flower heads, fold over the leaves to make them a bit…
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Ikebana tips #18: get your stapler ready
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]There are all sorts of way to get creative with leaves, and sometimes the best ones are really the simplest…like this one. With just a stapler and your imagination, you can take all sorts of leaves and fix them into shapes that give you unexpected opportunities for creativity.[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/C6Sk6Wu5Le0″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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Ikebana Tips #17: fun with phormium
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]You have probably gathered that I enjoy the freely creative side of freetsyle Ikenobo Ikebana as well as the more traditional. I also like helping my students to expand their creativity in all sorts of ways; some techniques can be really unexpectedly simple, like in this tip. This time you don’t need any tools,…