Start of the summer-online-lessons
/We st.arted our summer online-Ikebana-course under the waxing moon, hanging to the left side. Great results were achieved, and my online students greatly enjoyed this lesson.
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.
We kicked off our autumn course with oversized leaves, setting a stage for beautiful arrangements. Most of my students brought stunning bird-of-paradise flowers, which we combined with unusual shaped Helekonia- bird-of-paradiese - ore birds-nest-ferns leaves. Everyone was full of enthusiasm and delighted that the new course had finally begun.
We are back from our trip to Japan with wonderful memories, and full of inspiration. We are still recovering and need a bit more time until we get back to our routine. Tokyo and the Sogetsu-Haedquarter where fantastic. The Cherry-blossems just started to bloom when we arrived and came to an end when we left. Today we show you just a few pictures from our lessons at Sogetsu-School.
We are in Japan to study, get inspiration from the Headquarter of the Sogetsu-School and to do a bit of the OHENRO (the great pilgrimage at Shikoku) . We are back in middle of April full of inspiration. No regular sunday-update antil then.
After our return from Japan we would like to share a brief overview of our Shikoku Pilgramage Tour. Along the way, we visited twenty beautiful temples ans soaked in the unique atmosphere of this spiritual journey. Here´s a small selection of the temples we had the chance to explore and some impressions from the road.
Sofo Teshigahara, the founder of our Sogetsu-School and the spanisch painter Joan Miró met in Tokyo and in Paris in the 1950s. There friendship was about respect and recognition of each other´s innovative approaches. In our online-class we looked at a few picture from Miró and tried to adopt the colors and the atmosphere with conventional and unconventional materials. We would like to show you the selected Miró Pictures, but we are not allowed to do so!
We finished our summer course with straight and curved lines and with the first variation of upright Moribana. My new students are very good in finding and working with interesting materials, as you can see for yourself. I am very proud of my more advanst students, becouse they become more courageius in the choise of materials.
Find grass on roadside for our next Ikebana-Lesson was the task for my students this week. The found beautiful grasses that they had never noticed before. We created light summer-Arrangements, which made us forget the unbearable heat. And we are so happy that our Bat-Plant is blooming for the first time.
All of my students were very excited to start the new Ikebana-class last Friday, after two month of Ikebana-abstinence. In January is not much happend on the Sunshine-Coast, school-summer-holidays and the heat demand their tribute. We defied the heat with three fans and worked succesfully on straight and curved lines, on basic upright- and basic slanting-styles with slightly modifications.
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Everybody is in Christmas-Mode, so we did different Christmas-Arrangments this week, all inspired from the festive New-Years decoration in Japan. The festive colors are: green, red, gold and white, these colors make us always happy and we did happy looking Arrangements.
We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year and hope to see you in 2025.
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