Adriana lead a workshop using dried, bleached or coloured materials

Our July 14 workshop was lead by Adriana who suggested the following information for members to follow:

Workshop taken from, Book 4 lesson 13 - Dried, Bleached, or Coloured Materials. For this lesson, you can use dried, bleached or coloured materials alone or combined with fresh plant material. The important thing to note is the dried, bleached, or coloured material must be plants. For example, you can use materials such as dried and painted leaves, bark, driftwood, seed pods, dried seaweed or mosses. However, the materials should not be heavily processed (e.g. painted bamboo skewers, cork, paper), which you would instead use in an unconventional material arrangement (refer lessons 4.11 and 5.7).

The plan for the workshop is for everyone to bring a selection of dried, bleached, or coloured materials that can be shared. You may recall the same approach for the unconventional materials workshop last year. While challenging, this encourages more spontaneous arrangements using materials you may not have tried before.

Adriana arranged jasmine vine with helibores and driftwood in a tall black vase

Adriana arranged dried seed heads, a large dried leaves with yellow buttons, muehlenbeckia and jasmine vine in a white vase

Adriana arranged lemons and dried seaweed in a double yellow vase

Sandi arranged a variety of materials in an interesting ceramic container

Helen made an arrangement using dried leaves and a variety of materials in a ceramic container

Elizabeth made an arrangement using dried flax leaves and seed heads orchids in a round, squat ceramic vase

Elizabeth made an arrangement using driftwood, rosehips, seedheads, grasses and painted muehlenbeckia in a glass vase

Lyn made an arrangement using dried leaves, seaweed and flower heads

Takako made an arrangement using dried leaves, seed heads and leucadendron in a ceramic container

Takako made an arrangement using dried hydrangea flower heads and jasmine vine in a beautiful ceramic jug

Setsuko arranged painted dark blue dry camellia branches, fresh white azalea flowers, and small green leaves in a vibrant dark blue ceramic vase

Glenys made an arrangement using a rosemary sprig, muehlenbeckia and dried material in an interesting latticed container

Nicole made an arrangement using dried leaves and helibores

Masako made an arrangement using dried seaweed, lily buds in a tall, black glass vase

Kate made an arrangement using pittosporum, flax, freesias and dried grass in a ceramic container

Yoko made an arrangement using dried seaweed, leaves and cymbidium orchids in a ceramic vase

Sharon made an arrangement using painted leaves and vines with alstremeria flowers in a beautiful tall green vase

Lyn made an arrangement using dried leaves and flax claddies with red flowers in a white ceramic vase

Kathy made an arrangement using a variety of dried materials with a bird of paradise flower in an open bowl-shaped vase

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