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This group is for members who are interested in creating floral designs. We have a demonstration, create and appreciate. We also attend and sometimes participate in flower shows, exhibitions, seminars and symposiums.
All levels are welcomed! No experience is needed. We start with a presentation on what we will be doing. Then you make. We help each other. At the end we appreciate each other's work. Finally, you bring home your own design. Each month we do something different.
We meet at the leader's home on the 3rd Thursday of the month from 7 PM to 9 PM unless otherwise specified. We do not meet in June through August nor in December.
Design members are willing to drive others who do not wish to drive at night.
Please contact the leader before the meeting so a carpool can be arranged.
For more information and to be added to the group's mailing list, send email to the leaders on Contact Us.
Meeting is cancelled if 3 or more people do not sign up.
Our designs will follow the Handbook for Flower Shows v. 2017, using the Elements of Design and the Principles of Design.
Take a look at your plant material. Flowers come in different shapes: daisy, cup, spike, cluster, globe, flathead, filler, plume, and trumpet. You will want at least 2 different forms of plant material with contrasting color/hue and texture.
Please bringDo not bring artificial flowers or other plant material. Artificial material is never used by National Garden Club.
Note: Clear containers are more difficult because your stems as well as your flowers are part of the design. You can wrap the clear container or spray it with white flocking for "snow". White containers work better with mostly white. Lynn has a library of containers and you can purchase a basic black set (square and rectangle).
After we create an arrangement to bring home, we appreciate each other's work
based on the elements and principles of design.
Words of Appreciation
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Create and appreciateThe National Handbook describes both Creative and Traditional styles. These are not design types, but how you present your plant material. Creative designs use contrast and dominance with plant material and voids to create rhythm (positive and negative space or "plastic organization".) We are going to concentrate on the two elements of design (size and space) and particularly appreciate contrast, dominance and rhythm. All elements of design and all principles of design should be followed. Look at art and apply the principles to your creative designs.
Ikebana has many schools of floral design. For more information see Ikebana International San Francisco . They meet on the 3rd Friday during the day.