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Your tutor Bart Hassam
Bart is an Australian florist who
is already standing out for his creativity. His list of floristry awards has become legendary and he is a popular international demonstrator.You can find the full list of his achievements and his contact details at
www.designerflorist.com
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This is Bart Hassam's original piece .He uses
skeletonised leaves, roses, freesias, seed heads, lambs
ear, ivy leaves, hydrangeas, and twigs in a white and green
colour scheme.
Robyn Brown in New Zealand led a workshop following his method, which you can also try below;
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You will need a 30 cm diameter
shallow dish, the plastic drip tray for a pot plant is ideal.
Soak 3 blocks of floral foam and insert them into the tray so
they are well above the tray
rim. |
Cut
the foam with a knife so the blocks fit snugly and then
chamfer the edges so they slope in towards the centre gently.I
marked the middle of the foam with a circle (using the bottom
of a bucket) so I did this evenly. |
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You are now going
to add leaves around the outside of the rim in 3 layers. Ivy
or Fatsia works well or a mixture if you haven't enough. Put
the first layer sloping downwards right on the rim of the tray
spaced so each leave just touches the one beside it. The
second layer is above the first and inserted in the gaps
between the first layer. The third layer is again above
the second in the gaps. This should have taken the leaf layers
to the top of the chamfered floral foam. |
Arrange group of flowers in the top, not in formal
pattern, and have some raised up and others level with the
floral foam. |
Keep adding until the foam is completely covered, and
extend some of the flowers on long stems out to the edges of
the design. |
Add the caspia or similar above the flowers, extending
out past the edges of the leaves, outwards rather than
upwards |
Add skeletonised leaves and you are
finished! |
The workshop participants allowed
us to photograph their work and these we share with you.
Enjoy!
Tricia Legg used orchids,
chrysanthemums and leucodendron flowers, with a mixture of
ivy, magnolia and fatsia leaves, overlaid with
caspia. |
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Jessie McLeod used ivy leaves with
roses, carnations, and the amethyst Heuchera leaves with a
vine overlay |
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Ivy Wright uses red
roses, yellow carnations, geranium leaves, and mingimingi vine
as the overlay |
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Dorothy Davies used pink roses,
carnations, aloesmeria, variegated honesty leaves with
magnolia and fatsia leaves. |
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