Roger's Pictures
20 October 2013
Ikebana International Chapter 56 held its October workshop at Spalding House, formerly known as the Contemporary Museum. A docent led the group through the gallery explaining how it was originally built as a private residence. Through glass doors we could see the small Japanese rock garden (karesansui) tucked between buildings. We then walked through the larger strolling garden. Afterward, Carole Sakata gave us a handout on the various ways practitioners of Sogetsu ikebana manipulate leaves and showed us a few examples. We then selected from a variety of tropical leaves and flowers to create our own arrangements.
 Leaf backs |
 Path |
 Monstera |
 Hanging heliconia |
 Tiny flowers |
 Bromiliad |
 Bromiliad |
 Diamond Head |
 Architectural element |
 Most of the group |
 Maki showing a shredded leaf |
 Maki showing a rolled, cut leaf |
 Carol demonstrating |
 Demonstration arrangement with rolled leaves |
 Sample arrangement with rolled leaves |
 Rolled leaf |
 Torn leaf |
 Shredded leaf |
 Carol checking an arrangement |
 Barb's arrangement |