Avant-Garde Floral Design

Wedding bouquet with wire armature – Part II

Sandra — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:38:33 +0000

To continue on my previous post, I’m presenting today another bridal bouquet with a wire armature. The armature is first created with 49 ft. /15 m of 15 gauge aluminum wire. Then, I covered my mechanics with Galax leaves at the base, followed by a layer of Dusty Miller. I have started

Wedding bouquet with wire armature – Part I

Sandra — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:06:26 +0000

Lately, I have been exposed to a lot of wire work which I found to be very cool, so I decided to experiment with it. This is the first design I come up with, a simple hand-tied bouquet of Iceland poppies (Papaver nudicaule) with an armature made with “curlies” of flat wire.

Contemporary

Sandra — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:54:42 +0000

Contemporary designs with a focus on architecture, structure, and decorative arts.