Ikebana and us

 In the October month workshop, attended by 14 members, Mrs Malathi Pandurang, Director of Sogetsu Branch Chennai demonstrated 4 lessons from Sogetsu Textbook 1 She used just a few materials from her garden to show different styles and their variations. Watching her demonstrate and explain how to achieve balance and coherence between the main lines and jushis, we were able appreciate the right position and proportion in placement of jushis to bring out the asymmetrical nature and the three dimensional aspect of ikebana arrangements. Her demonstration also emphasised the appropriate choice of materials for main lines and jushis to compliment them. She worked with the same material, across the arrangements, in order to explain the fundamental positions of the lines, and the arrangements should be viewed as lessons. Basic Upright Style Moribana and Variation 1 Upright Style Moribana - Materials used Birds Nest Fern, green button chrysanthemums in a plastic round trays.  While dem...

Our September meeting was held at ABK on the 24th. Sensei Mrs. Molly Cherian and Mrs. Luna Bose gave us a wonderful demonstration on  Abstract arrangements. For her first arrangement,  Sensei Molly aesthetically placed a bark of a tree on a pin holder and t hen arranged strips of cane, heliconia flower and asparagus fern and used a steel net as unconventional material in the arrangement. For her second arrangement.  Sensei Molly placed a ceramic vase on a wooden board.  A silicone cup cake mould and steel wool were the unconventional materials used to create  A beautiful arrangement with dried umbrella palm branches which were made into many geometrical designs  and  heather and chrysanthemum flowers to complete it. For her third arrangement Sensei Molly used a nagiere metal container with a cross bar and . A wooden bark was propped against the container.  Philodendron leaves and a sunflower were arranged beautifully with stalks of wild rose berri...