Neuigkeiten aus meiner Ikebana Welt. An welchen Blumen und Materialien ich gerade Freude habe, womit ich und meine Schüler gerade arbeite, was mich beschäftigt und was ich tolles für meinen Ikebana Unterricht entdecke.
Immer frisch und immer mit Herz.
It´s getting hot here on the coast. Ther for we played around with water. If you are going to make an water-arrangement, you have to stick your hand in that container filled with water to place your material on the right place. That gives you that first cool feeling and the second you get by looking on your finished water-arrangement.
We would like to show you just a few examples from our experiments with the random-generator. This generator mad a choice of five different things to use for an arrangment: typ of container, flowers, branches or leaves and two types of non organic material. Two arrangements are made of: dry lotus, baby´s breath, wire and coal in a round container, the next two are designed from: triangular vase, monstera-leaves, branch or Iris-leave, Iris , plastic-foam. Flowers and branches could be subtitute if the are not avalible at the moment. It is so much fun, to compare that outcome.
Today we would like to show you a few more of the Arrangments made by the members of the Sogetsu-Brisbane Inc. at Bardon Hall two weeks ago.
15 Sogetsu-members signed up for the Paperbark-Workshop held in Bardon-Hall, a rustic venue, just right for our workshop. Everyone brought different paperbark to work with. Some very thick bark was used with the help of a stick upright or horizontal and the thin bark was carfully divided into very thin layers, soaked in water to create flowers, clouds or other wonderful things. We had a creativ, relaxt afternoon with beautiful results.
We started this week with the first autumm-arrangments of this year via online lessons. As it was easy for my German students to find adequate materials, it was hard for me to find somthing suitable. But thanks cooper-leave-bush and dried cotton-tree-leaves I was able to do it. Beside that, I was preparing for my first Saterday-workshop for a large group of Ikebana-ladys from the Sogetsu-Ikebana-Club in Brisbana. I will show you the pictures in the coming week.
Splitting bamboo was our plan, just like we´ve done many times with green bamboo before. But the black bamboo resisted, even when we worked for half an hour very hard on the bamboo-cutter with a hammer. Then we gave up and did nice Bamboo-arrangements with unsplitted bamboo.
I was offered to cut a hugh black bamboo in my neighborhood. I was very happy about it and offered a bamboo-workshop for the Sogetsu-Brisbane-Inc. But the ladies are so bamboo spoiled that the said “o no not again“. So my students benefited from that matter and workt with bamboo for the first time. We developed simple but beautyful container and decorated them with springflowers from the garden. Also in our next workshop, we will work with bamboo, because this trunk was about 10 m high.
We did a workshop for the members of the Coloundra-floral-art-society this week. The ladies brought their own material, but could also use the materials I offered. We started with a short explanation about Ikebana and a few principles. I demonstrated two different Arrangements, one with Paperbark, leaves and a single flower and one with branches and flowers. The ladies could choose one or the other and the did and even a thirt one with Paperbark and everything. We had a wonderful morning with lots of joy and laughter.
My long-time student Bernadette was happy to join the new course and designed beautiful arrangements as always. Also some new students found the way to our studio and did surprisingly very nice works.
We held a workshop for the members of the Nambour floral art society last Wednesday. The ladies are all expirienced in flower arranging and wanted to expand their floral horizons with Ikebana. We chose easy to find materials, like paperbark, palmleaves, farns and flowers from the garden. It was a bit tricky, becouse most of the container and kenzans were a little to small, but everyone had a good result and a lot of joy..
We made structures with small rubber-bands, thin elastic sticks or stiff barbecue sticks, dry branches and a few flowers. Some structures where hung up in the dry branches and are able to float around, some are soft triangels, same are stiff triangels and some are there just for fun, like the creatores.
We tried to shape waves withs Aspidistra-leaves and white Alstromeria-flowers, photographt it in front of the kitchen splash-back, which is blue as our beautiful blue sky. The dracaena-leaves building an arche and protect the stock-flowers.
I´m happy to be back in my Australien hometown with beautiful blue sky and lovely winter-weather. Despite my ongoing jetleg I´m busy with preparing for the upcoming classes and the workshops in which I want to use local materials only.
As we mentioned last week, we are pleased to show you the beautiful work Jiachi did for the Examination of book 5. She chose number 33 of the 50 principles of Sogetsu “select a container that accentuates the beauty of the ikebana-arrangement”, and did it in a perfect way.
We held an intensiv workshop over the weekend with my online-students. I met some of the ladies, which came from different parts of Germany, “Jena, Hamburg, Leipzig, Pfaffenhofen and Düsseldorf “ for the first time und also the girls met each other for the first time in person. We workt hart on different fixings like “tate no soegi-dome, yoko ichimonji-dome” with very good results. We startet with Moribana first Variation made of flowers only, did the hart work in the middle and a light and airy Bamboo-Arrangment at the end. One of the girls completed Sogetsu-Textbook Nr. 5 and explaned as part of here examiantion how to use “tate no suegi-dome”. Next week you can see the picturs of here work.
Jeweils ein Meister der Ikenobu-Schule und ein Meister einer anderen Ikebana-Schule gestalteten gemeinsam auf der Bühne ihre Arrangements mit den gleichen Materialien, aber jeder im Stil seiner Schule. Ein interessantes und gelungenes Experiment.
Zu unserer großen Freude sind heute die Photos vom 2. Teil unseres Koryu-Toyokai-Workshop angekommen, von denen ich einige ausgesucht habe und zu Ihrer Freude auf unsere Webseite setze. Yuko und ich denken gerne an unsere intensiven, kreativen Seminartage in Naurod zurück.
We did moon-arrangements last week. The rising moon stands for spring, full moon for summer and the decreasing moon for autumm. We are just on the transition from spring to summer, so the students did both versions. For the students without a moon-container, Ulla prepared a moon-Version out of a thick cardboard, which was easy to make and the results where stunning.
Meine langjährigen Schüler, jetzt unter der Leitung von Ulla Steuter, erarbeiteten interessante Arrangements aus grünen Bambusstangen, Bambuswurzeln und frischen Blumen. Der Bambus in Frau Steuters Garten hatte längst die Hauptrolle übernommen und überwucherte andere wertvolle Pflanzen, so dass er entfernt werden musste. Die Wurzeln wurden mühevoll ausgegraben, geteilt, gesäubert und getrocknet und sind eine wunderbare Ergänzung zu unserem heutigen Thema. Bei einer anschließenden Feierstunde erhielt Ulla Steuter ihr “Sogetsu-Lehrerzeugnis” und Jiachi Fan das Zeugnis zum Abschluss des vierten Lehrbuches.
Wir durften wunderschöne kreative Tage auf unserem jährlichen Ikebana-Kongress im Wilhelm Kempff Haus erleben. Meine Freundin Yuko und ich gaben drei Workshops ihrer Koryu Toyokai Schule mit traditioneller Vorführung. Unsere Teilnehmerinnen genossen die entspannte Atmosphäre erarbeiteten Bambus-Arrangements, drei Grundstile der Koryu Toyokai Schule und übten sich in der traditionellen Art der Vorführung.
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