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Abstract compositions with unusual containers - October workshop

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October 15th 2014  Our October workshop was on working with unusual materials or vases and creating abstract compositions. Ambika demonstrated a couple of arrangements before the assembled members tried their hand at it.  It was an exciting and invigorating workshop, with a wide array of material and containers. Ambika's first arrangement, seen below, was with four bits of packing material ( soe ), that she rested on a bubble wrap sheet.  The strong shin was provided by a roll of chart paper discarded by her son!  The hikae anthuriums and the jushis coloured seeds added to colour to the composition. "Urbania" The second arrangement was created in a machine-cut hollow brick, which had an interesting texture, as well as six spaces created by the structure of the brick. Umbrella plant was amassed as two heavy lines, while the purple and green chrysanthemums were also massed for colour. In order to provide depth, a few of the umbrella plant stcks were b