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Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman

A Floral Fable: Approach Design

This is the third design I did for my A Floral Fable Design demonstration at the Capilano Flower Arranging club.

The demonstration explores ways to add small floral details to tell your own floral fable or simply express yourself with floral art.

With every design I will demonstrate one concept, thought or idea and by just slightly changing a few of the floral ingredients the design flips over into its contrast.

The moral of our third fable is that our approach to things changes how we see the world:

I begin the design in a sleek...

and trendy..

...big city

and then..

move to the country...

to create a rustic...

garden style design.

When you design, every detail you add matters, and the smallest element can change the design completely.

At first the Gerbera daisies are in sleek test tubes tied with a sexy corset style black satin ribbon.

I then softened the bare city twig look by adding green stems of Jasmine foliage

To show the big impact just a few stems can make

And finally the design is transformed completely

when I replaced the test tubes with rustic recycled ball jars tied with copper wire.

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Tutorials
Hanging Jars
17 February 2011
Hanging Jars

Add a handle to jars to hang in a design
Butterfly feeler hooks for swinging test tubes
18 January 2012
Butterfly feeler hooks for swinging test tubes

I don't always want to wire my test tubes into the design. I like to create a bit of movement by simply hooking the tubes to gently swing.
Permanent Mossy Stick tree
15 March 2012
Permanent Mossy Stick tree

Create a twig tree by using clay to secure twigs and sticks into a pot
Salty Playdough
15 March 2012
Salty Playdough

Playdough is heavy, pliable, easy to mix, sticky, inexpensive and dries overnight. Perfect for floral art accessories!
"I found it this way" demonstration Floral art Structures: Twig Tangles
21 September 2016
"I found it this way" demonstration Floral art Structures: Twig Tangles

For my "I found it this way" Floral Art demonstration at The Capilano Flower Arranging club, I began all four of my designs with basic armatures made of Twig Tangles and we discussed the importance of a stable structure as a foundation to a structural design. The twig tangles create a basic armature for the designs to be suspended from. Each design is crafted that it almost looks like a foraged or ‘found” natural object
Acrylic Spiderweb
21 September 2016
Acrylic Spiderweb

For this design I made the inside connection bit on a 3D printer with the spikes made of acrylic tubes.
Hanging Jar tea light lantern
16 February 2011
Hanging Jar tea light lantern

Set candles into the soaked powder
Related Designs
A Floral Fable Design demonstration Floral Art Structures
15 March 2012
A Floral Fable Design demonstration Floral Art Structures

I did a Floral Art demonstration at The Capilano Flower Arranging club. Over the next few weeks I will show the designs in detail and add the design tutorials. This week I’ll look at the concept, the basic mechanics and the Floral Art structures, constructions and armatures used in the demonstration.
I found it this way: Spiderweb design
21 September 2016
I found it this way: Spiderweb design

This was the first design I did in my "I found it this way" floral art demonstration
Favourite Flowers
Gerbera
Gerbera

Floral art demonstration design with Gerbera and twigs.