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23 March 2012

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This is the second 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 second fable is that colour can make you super cool or smoking hot:

Cold and frosty Floral Art demonstration design.

We begin our design cold and frosty...

A Floral Fable cool design snuggled up in a twig nest.

Snuggled and curled up

Orchids and berries hybernating in a bed of moss.

while hibernating in it's twig nest.

And then...

A Floral Fable design demonstration design- warm.

the spring sun chases the clouds away

Orchids and Jasmin on a forest floor of dogwood.

and heats up the forest floor

to create our warm surface design

A Floral Fable colour design- snail shell spiral equisetum.

In my cold design I used frosty green Cymbidium Orchids and Hypericum berries snuggling in a bed of reindeer moss. I spiraled dark green Equisetum like snail shells to curl up and over the pave.

Then to change it into a warm forest floor design I made a red dogwood stick lattice to suspend my test tubes on. I filled the test tubes with pink tinted Jasmine buds and Cymbidium Orchids. The lip of the orchids was exactly the same dark red as the dogwood.

Tutorial: Glue a round stacked twig platter

Tutorial: Placing orchids in test tubes

Tutorial: Curl Equisetum shoots into a snail shell spiral

Tutorial: Butterfly feeler hooks for swinging test tubes

Tutorial: Twig lattice to cover a basket

A Floral Fable Design demonstration Floral Art Structures

A Floral Fable Design demonstration at the Capilano Flower Arranging club

Favourite Flowers and Plants: Cymbidium

Favourite Flowers and Plants: Equisetum

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