Container: Round Suiban
The main point The Upright Style is to capture the light, buoyant movement branches that rise upward.
Carefully examine the shape of the siberian dogwood branches and try to make the most of their elegant sense of motion.
Straight branches lacking in movement can be bent by hand before being arranged.
Position the Subject standing upright in the left front corner of the container. The length of the Subject is the diameter plus the depth of the container. The Subject should be slanted a little bit ahead.
The Secondary of the same material is two-thirds of the length of the Subject. The base of the Secondary is secured in the front left corner of the container in line with the Subject. The whole stem is tilted forvard 45 degrees and is swaed horizontally outward 30 degrees.
As these branches are straight , add three Fillers of siberian dogwood branches to give a sense of variation in height and in the angle of slant.
Use tree daffodil as the Object and its Filler stems.
The measurement of the Object is one-half of the length of the Subject. It is slanted 60 degree down from the vertical and swayed horizontally 45 degrees from the center of the composition.
Arranged lower than the Object, one Filler daffodil, another daffodil has its base beside the Tall Filler.
Keep in mind that there should be a pleasant variety of heights and angles.