Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
A Floral Fable: Mood Design
- 21 March 2012
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This is the first 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 first fable is: You can change your mood as fast as you can change your mind.
We begin our design in a thoughtful...
...restrained...
and meditative mood.
And then...
it changes to exuberant...
and youthful...
and playful
In my thoughtful, restrained and meditative mood design I used tulips in tight bud, green papery Physalis pods (sepals) and grasshoppers woven from a palm leaf.
Then to change it into an exuberant and youthful and playful design I added a few open tulips, reflexed and replaced the green Physalis pods with orange pods. The grasshoppers got wings to become butterflies to fly into the happy design.
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Tutorials
Weave grasshoppers or butterflies (or fireflies) from palm leaves
This wreath is not woven but glued to create a see-through forest filigree
Here is a trick to make sure your tulips will condition thoroughly
Sometimes tiny accessories can be too light to neatly place in a design and needs a bit of weight to stabilize it.
Every Autumn we see the beautiful Physalis pods everywhere but they are easy to dry and preserve to use year round.
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