March workshop - Lines and colour

March 14th 2019

The Study Group met at ABK AOTS Dosokai for their March workshop. 16 members attended, still reeling under the shock of the sudden and untimely demise of our member Janaki, sensei and friend. A silent prayer was offered in her memory before the start of the demonstration and workshop.

The day's agenda was demonstrations by Sensei Prerana Mehta and Sensei Trishala Vaishnav. Both of them demonstrated two arrangements each. There were two themes - Emphasising 'Line' or Colour. Both of them demonstrated both these themes separately.

Sensei Prerana began with a composition to emphasise Line.

She started with the line of the brass container and the vertical line of the ceramic brown vase. The dry bougainvillea branches were very stark lines.

"The single anthurium of course tells us that however empty and devoid life is of joy like the branches, still the colour red gives us hope and love. Life goes on with courage", she said as she completed her composition in brown.

The theme of her second composition was Colour which she used in abundance. The colour of the vase and the base was olive. She used orange, yellow and white lilies, green chrysanthemums and a dash of Gypsofilia.

"I filled the vase with lemons and water to give the strength to the heavy look of flowers.
And of course the red pomegranate added a bit of bright colour", she said.

Sensei Trishala preferred a colourful start to her demonstration. She used a translucent ceramic bowl as her vase.

The large green palms provided mass and colour and sandwiched the chrysanthemums of different colours.

The everlasting flowers complemented the designs on the vase and the Carnations provided
little dashes of colour to complete the composition.

For her composition emphasising Line, sensei Trishala tried a novel interpretation using wire netting material which she placed in different dimensional planes. The green netting brought the colours of the vase alive, and were complemented by a touch of green asparagus fern.

Statice and a tall anthurium completed the arrangement.

Bhuvana created a moribana composition emphasising colour.

Chelvi used the beautiful curved lines of the cannonball branch along with the fruit
in a Japanese ceramic vase. 'Like the sun being the life source of the universe,
the branches here look toward the cannonball", she said.

Sensei Dalley created a composition in pink, complementing the colours of the flowers with the tray.

Sensei Divya used cane for beautiful lines and garden leaves and
chrysthamums, in a ceramic container

Jyotsna - Showing lines using Palm leaves, Carnation, Gypsofilia in a
crescent-shaped Fibreglass container

Sensei Meenakshi displayed color - anthriums in a fibreglass container and
a few chrysanthemum plus asparagus fern.

Sensei Malathi created a colour composition emphasising white and blue.

Mohan used umbrella palm for lines and kalanchoe flowers
added some colour.

Sensei Molly used dry wild plant and alocasia leaf to show lines. Chinese cap flower and the
ceramic container complimented each other.

Pushkala tried her hand at two compositions below in the same narrow container, one with jerboas, and the other with green lines of the Insuline plant.