u/NicoManalo

daylily, peach, nandina

The pain of a small-lipped vase. You can only fit so much.

Wisteria, dahlia, fern.

I'm sorry I am biased towards pond and moss gardens.

In order of appearance:

1. Toji pond garden, Kyoto.
2. Saihoji, Kyoto, also known as Kokodera.
3. A ryokan garden in Hakone, called Sangetsuen.
4. Benzaiten pagoda inside Daigoji, Kyoto.
5. Kinkakuji in winter.

Amenopsis, 3 roses of different colors, salvia, achillea, verbena, ti leaves.

Since the interaction and space between flower and fruit, past and future, or parent and child were already striking on their own, I did not add anymore "guests" or filler apart from a few canna leaves.

At daytime, the selenicereus flower gradually closes as its own life-force descends and collects in the fruit. Ultimately, only the fruit is left to continue the coversation.

Dead hinoki, dried peonies, nandina.
Free expression, loosely based on upright heika.

This is a companion and complement piece to the fresh, vibrant rimpa. The peonies here are the ones that I dried from an earlier bunjin arrangement. I kind of don't like the container, though. It would have been nicer to execute this on a darker colored vase.

Peony, peach branches, maple branches, purple aster.

Rimpa is usually executed on a shallower container, but since I have an old cat who is enticed to drink water from the suiban, I bend the rule by using a taller basket with mechanics inside.

Took a while to fix up this container garden, but we are getting there.

It's a Japanese-inspired container garden and originally my sister's project. We went container since the soil was too rocky to start with. Life happened, so for a while everyone neglected it.

Eventually, I moved to a new job and time became available for me to tend to it again little by little. I tried my best to reuse everything in the original garden including all the plants we started with. Now, it's mostly about transplanting some shrubs properly into these huge-ass concrete pots.

Subject: Peony. Object: Peach.
Also with: Maple, calamansi, jade plant, wisteria shoot.

I use the one provided by Utrecht because it came with a whole kit (I'm a novice still figuring out how to oil paint) but I am not really happy with the consistency of the paint.

It does tend to become grainy and the amount of oil to compared to pigment seems too much. When you attempt to blend it with a dry brush, the brush picks up more of the paint, instead of actually blending. Kind of a bummer, because I lost some nice brushstroked defining petals here and there. Or maybe I just picked up an old kit with aged paint tubes?

Thank you for your suggestions.

Watercolor and Ink. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a dinner set collection solely devoted to the Ranunculaceae family?

Just leftover pleather, foam and budget rhinestones.

So yeah, my cat kicked my Titanium White goache glaze into my paper and I can't completely wipe it off. Guess we are going to go with the look he wants.