It's Pave' Workshop time again. I usually hold this workshop around Valentines Day. As many people come back again and again to do Pave', it will be held later so we'll have a different seasonal group of flowers to play with. These flower carpets are more like painting to me than any type of arrangement. A flat shallow container of water holds the short stems and there is a painterly aspect to creating these shallow 3 dimensional compositions that can be geometric and tidy or sprawling and natural. In keeping with my promise to myself to broaden my color palette, I am exploring colors that are not magenta and mauve.
Workshop Details:
Date: April 7, Sat
Time: 9:30-1:30
Cost:$115 includes all materials but not container
Where: College of Marin
Link for workshop, listed under HOME AND GARDEN
https://marincommunityed.augusoft.net/
P.S.
Those gosh darn dandelions. And the sour grass; just can't stop them from getting in everywhere!
And speaking of Pave's being painterly; I find this resulting photo flattened and floating in an interesting way. If a painting were made from it that was big
enough to fill a wall, it might have the feeling of a photo realist painting- or not.
Where have I been? Do you ever just look up and wonder where two weeks, or even two months have gone?
I wonder if people's perception of time has changed with all attention on screens every moment. It sometimes seems like life is lived in the little moments of a text or an email or a Netflix or the latest thing Donald has said and- wow, wasn't it just Christmas and now it's almost spring.
Thankfully, the nature of flower work commands a certain kind of attention that has one focused on the seasons. Roses may be available all year round from some part of the world, but the fragile spring flowers like frittilaria, muscari, fruit blossoms, magnolia, etc, etc are fragile and ethereal. A sigh of delight, manifested in matter - those have a short window.
You have to pay attention or they will go by.
So, a few to share.
Above, we have tulips and hellebore's, and young buckeye branch mixed with a tillandsia plant from warmer climates that insisted on being part of the party.
Below are anemones, coming in like crazy. The first of the field flowers ( or hoop house flowers). This black, purple, somewhat crimson color is my favorite this season.
