Splendors2014
After the opening ceremony on Tuesday the 18th,
Elaine Arita of the Ohara School demonstrated several
typical styles of arrangement done in the Ohara
School. She was followed on Wednesday the 19th by Earl
Shimabukuro who demonstrated one moribana and several free
style arrangements typical of the Sogetsu School.
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 Bette narrates... |
 Assistants in the wings... |
 The crowd |
 Elaine begins her demonstration |
 Elaine's demonstration |
 First arrangement |
 Basic Upright Rising form |
 Starting a second |
 Finishing touches |
 Explanation |
 Basic Moribana Inclining form |
 Elaine starts the third arrangement |
 Assistants move it... |
 Hanamai or Dancing Flowers style |
 Working on a fourth arrangement |
 Narabu or Linear arrangement |
 Starting a fifth... |
 The scene... |
 Finishing the fifth |
 A water scene |
 Starting the sixth arrangement |
 Adding a leaf |
 Finishing touches |
 Heika Rising form |
 A seventh arrangement |
 Heika Rising form |
 Elaine by her large Free Style |
 Earl starts his demonstration |
 First arrangement |
 Finished arrangement |
 Basic moribana with yellow mums |
 Second arrangement |
 Adding flowers |
 Adding strips that held nails |
 Freestyle with recycled drywall screw belts |
 Detail of recycled drywall screw belts |
 Third arrangement |
 Freestyle with oasis midollino sticks ... |
 Fourth arrangement |
 Freestyle springtime arrangement with felt flutters |
 Inserting into container |
 Adjusting leaves |
 Fifth arrangement |
 freestyle incorporating massing and bending ... |
 Sicth arrangement |
 Almost done |
 It all goes this way... |
 Freestyle with black bamboo structure ... |