Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Designs
It's not really what we call things that matter but what they are made of- in this design, it's made of all three types of Oasis and wool.
Twig waterfall creates the boundary between the "under" and the "over" of the design. Tutorial: How to cover test tubes with Rainbow Oasis
Carving hearts out of Rainbow Oasis to create an under water design
Wax and Rainbow Oasis keep the flower heads in place.
Every designer knows how to stretch their supplies. We use and re-use our dried plant material until our fellow designers feel like hiding it from us. I formed such an...
Flax leaves are ripped with a kenzan and wrapped with copper wire and small blue beads to create a rope to weave into a delicate spider web.
To create this huge Protea I took apart nine Protea flower heads and glued the tepals and bracts back on to a polystyrene ball to create a large Protea composite flower that is...
My design "Desalination" featured in the 2011 South African Flower Union Calender