Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Tutorials
Playdough is heavy, pliable, easy to mix, sticky, inexpensive and dries overnight. Perfect for floral art accessories!
Create a twig tree by using clay to secure twigs and sticks into a pot
I wanted to create extremely light weight wooden blocks for my design. The easiest way is to cover Styrofoam with a Kyogi paper veneer.
A water balloon can be a flexible and durable water source for plant material
Connect grass covered wire rings with short reed sections to create a natural looking Floral Art armature
This looks spectacular but it is the easiest composite flower to make
Biodegradable copper mesh makes the perfect shape to fill with moss to grow tiny stem plants
Once you figure out how to do the corners weaving a diagonal shape is actually not that hard to do.
I build up the spheres by weaving willow wreaths and then use those to shape the ball