Nineteen members attended the workshop led by Sensei Mrs. Wang. All the materials provided. Personally, I do not like this unconventional material, which seemed to overpower the arrangement, but perhaps this is the subject.
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| Sensei’s demo arrangement |
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| My arrangement |
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| This arrangement is by a member of Ichiyo school |
We planted two persimmon trees four years ago. I was so happy and excited to see that they had a lot of blossoms this year, which then grew to many tiny fruits. I checked them almost every day, but I didn’t know why the tiny persimmons dropped off little by little. So sad! Today, I harvested only one beautiful persimmon! I cut this precious “one persimmon branch” to use for this arrangement! (11/15/2022)
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| See! my arrangement using fruit branch, only one persimmon left |
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| Hata Sensei’s demo arrangement |
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| Marcia’s arrangement, very unique |
In this lesson (text book 5) note : When choosing the glass container, the arranged plants inside should be visible and water need to show beautifully through the glass.
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| Hata Sensei’s arrangement (11/15/2022) |
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| In the class I used green glass with philodendron Xanadu and mum |
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| I tried at home using bittersweet inside (11/13/2022) |
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| Bittersweet and mum / blue glass (11/13/2022) |
Review basic style, reversed upright style Moribana (text book 1 -3). We have to make sure that the three main things shin, soe and hikae are in the right position. Practices, practice makes perfect. (11/15/2022)
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| Azalea branches shin and soe, mum the hikae |
I entered this month’s virtual little show : “Beauty and the Beast, a creative design containing texture paired with lush components.” I almost forgot about it but I managed to find all the materials that I needed from my garden (not much left). There were nandina, mum, dahlia, lantana, wood and mat structure / ceramic vase.(11/10/2022)
“The Road Not Taken” is my title for my arrangement. It’s from a famous classic poem by Robert Frost, if you know the poem, you might know why I named it for my title. My idea is behind it.
“Growing with Ikebana” was the theme of BuxMont Study Group’s 7th annual exhibition, held on the November 5/2022. By the members of study group. see below:
As I said before that I was going to use vine for demonstration. I prepared two different kinds of vines, wisteria and bittersweet. I also prepared other materials like nandina berries and leaves, Fuji mum and smaller home grown mums and aucuba plant. / ceramic tall container
I think I did well, even though I have to arrange from behind. There were around 50 audience in the room, they seemed to like my vines arrangement! (11/5/2022)
BuxMont Study Group 7th Annual Exhibition held on 11/5/2022. Program included all the members’s arrangements and six demonstrations by certified teachers.
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| Hanging arrangement |
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| Repeating similar forms or shapes |
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| Dried, bleached or colored materials |
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| Using both fresh and unconventional |
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| Basket arrangement |
Busy October has passed! The Buxmout Study Group annual exhibition is approaching (11/5/2022). It’s time to put my ikebana ideas into action. I have three arrangements to think about, one for display, one for raffle and the other one for demonstration.
For my demonstration; I was assigned to use VINE. I am thinking about using two kinds of different vines which are wisteria and bittersweet, both are easy to get, they are just from my back yard. But the design idea is still in the air.
I might use this idea for display, but will be a different arrangement.
This arrangement might be used for raffle:
