Moribana Arrangements

Moribana arrangements with special themes in each arrangement.

Whether you are showing off the straight lines, curved lines, contrasting colors or similar shapes within the arrangement, you can see the examples below.

These are more modern ikebana styles compared to the conventional upright style or the slanting style.

This moribana arrangement emphasizes on straight lines in the arrangement. To create straight lines, you need materials that are 'straight' in nature.

In this example as well, I choose cypress stick to do the job. When we talk about straight lines, we would imagine straight lines which are boring, without any design.

But straight lines can also be manipulated to create unique designs and shapes, like in this arrangement.

I used yellow gerberas as the focal flower, cypress sticks and a beautiful blue ceramic container.

The container has holes on both sides, so it is a good idea to make use of this special design.

I inserted cypress sticks inside on one hole, making a triangle, ending in another hole on the other side. The straight lines are maintained.

Insert some yellow gerberas which are also straight in nature.

This is a moribana arrangement emphasizing on curved lines. The curved lines are brought by the nature of the flowers and materials chosen for the arrangement.

To show the curved lines, you need to choose materials that have a natural curl.

In the example arrangement below, I chose birds nest leaves, with natural curvy lines and also red anthuriums.

I chose a simple round ceramic white container for this arrangement, with a small round kenzan inside.

The birds nest leaves are arranged upright, intercepting each other. In the middle is the red anthurium.

In this case, I did not use flowers with very strong characteristics because I wanted to highlight of the birds nest leaves. So, the small red anthurium did the job.

Moribana with straight and curved lines is an arrangement where you want to show both straight and curved lines in one arrangement.

Because sometimes, when you want to show straight lines, it needs some curvy lines to bring out more of the 'straight' character.

In the moribana arrangement below, I used dendrobium orchids for the curved lines and horsetails to show the straight lines.

Although the horsetails were straight, I added a little twist so that the horsetails are arranged slantingly, but still can show the straight lines.

In another example, I used horsetails to show the straight lines and anthuriums to show the curved lines.

If I were just to choose these two materials, the arrangement would have looked OK. But, I added a stalk of japonica and introduced more curved lines to the arrangement.

As a result, the 'straight' characteristic of the horsetails are further enhanced.

In this freestyle moribana arrangement, emphasis is given on the contrast colors in the arrangement. Contrast colors means colors that are opposite but complement each other.

In this particular example, I chose the colors yellow and purple.

First, I picked a small glass container lemon yellow in color. I filled it up with water and placed a kenzan in the center.

I inserted the yellow foeniculums tall and high because I wanted to show the beautiful lines of the foeniculum branch.

Then, I used purple lisianthus at the bottom near the container to create the contrast. I also used draceana leaves to complement the purple color of the lisianthus.

This is a freestyle moribana arrangement which emphasizes on 'mass' or 'volume'. How do you create mass in an arrangement?

That is to group flowers compactly together.

To create the element of 'mass' or 'volume', you need to group materials together to form a shape. To make it more interesting, you could also group leaves or branches, instead of flowers.

The whole arrangement could be a mass arrangement. Similarly, one arrangement can consist of multiple masses.

Also, one single mass can be formed by using the same material. Or can be formed by different materials to give more texture and contrast.

Here I have a beautiful ceramic container which I am going to use for this arrangement.

I placed two kenzans in the container which was pre-filled with water. I chose molucellas and begin inserting them on both of the kenzans. Let the molucellas flow towards each other.

To build volume of the molucellas, you insert the molucella stalks near to each other with different heights.

Once that's established, I begin inserting dark purple daisies shortly at the bottom on one kenzan.

Put them compactly together to create volume. On the other kenzan, I chose a contrast colored yellow cathamus. Also, inserting them compactly together.

This moribana arrangement is emphasizing on all views. Which means, whichever angle you look at it, you can see there's balance and harmony of the flowers.

The flowers I used are yellow and orange gerbera, white dendrobiums, draceana leaves and monstera leaf. The container is a glass container, with yellow frosted finishing.

Here's how it looks from front.

Here's from another angle...

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