This book creates a whole new aesthetic for flowers. Paula Pryke breaks the mold of conventional flower arranging so successfully that this zealot collection of arrangements gives real acceptation to the time floral art. Her originality, ingenuity and dramatic use of unprepared materials are key to the strong optic impact, vibrancy and ever perfectly harmonious arrangements she creates. Stunningly photographed, the book is both a rich sourcebook of fresh and stylish ideas and a highly practical guide enabling the amateur to originate dozens of artistic arrangements during the term of each occasion. The great number of flowers available today offers almost limitless scope for flower arrangers. Part of the book’s novel approach is to encourage experimentation and innovation by showing how to mix some of the less familiar flowers now appearing on the market, with the more typical.
How to create celebration arrangements for anniversaries, Christmas, the New Year, Easter, Hallowe’en, Mother’s Day, weddings, birthdays and shelter warmings. Which containers to choose to complement arrangements: earthen ware, china, wood, basketry or metal, and how to make unusual natural containers from vegetables and foliage. How to arrange flowers according to particular color schemes, through the image of reds, yellows and greens to blues, whites and promiscuous combinations. Selecting floral themes, whether formal or informal, period or modern, scented, edible or tropical. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs and each illustrated chapter on techniques resemblance you how to achieve perfect results. A comprehensive gazetteer acts as a reference guide to over 300 flowers. In Flowers, Flowers!, the artistry and expertise of Paula Pryke’s masterful flower arranging skills are now accessible as being the first time, to capture the esemplastic faculty, teach and inspire.
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