Festive Thinking 2023 (Designer)
Festive Designs, Inspiration and Learnings (Designer)
See Course Dates
Refresh your inspiration, skills and techniques with four festive designs for the Christmas season.
Join Mark in a video tutorial where he talks through four designs, demonstrating techniques and discussing the reasoning behind design decisions
Create your own interpretation of one of the designs and receive an analysis of your interpretation in terms of the Elements and Principles of design.
Four Luxurious Designs
Walk through four festive designs with Mark - two tall designs and two low, all made with a singular mechanic in common - fibre crescents.
Step by step instructions with ample illustrative photos provide a starting point for your own interpretations.
The techniques used are simple and yet offer great scope to use in many different design styles.
Curving lines of glistening sickles and choice botanicals bring festivity and rhythm to these Christmas designs.
A sprinkling of yuletide spices enhances the festive feeling.
Sickles bring long draping lines and a fluid feeling not possible with short-stemmed materials.
The flower choices and their compact use in these compositions make them long lasting - low maintenance and perfect for a relaxed festive season.
Creating designs using organic sickle shapes naturally introduces curving elements.
Their crafted forms and fluid lines add impact and interest without overwhelming the flowers.
Using metallic wire to bind the sickles offers a subtle glistening element that makes the final arrangement fit easily into almost any Christmas context.
Your Designer Registration Includes:
- Video Tutorial walking through the four designs in the bonus eBooks
- Instruction in making fibre crescents using a range of fibres and threads
- A refresher in the oft-overlooked yet foundational technique of Binding
- Two bonus eBooks, giving step by step instructions for all four of the designs in the video tutorial
- A critical analysis of your design in the Live Design Forum (watch live and/or catch-up later)
- An eBook of all of the Design Learnings from the Live Design Forum - including yours.
- An invitation to feature your work in the Festive Thinking Gallery.
Participation Guide
Festive Thinking Timetable
Gallery
Mark Pampling has been designing, competing, teaching and judging for thirty years now and is as well known for his clear, linear design style as for his patient and inclusive way of sharing his knowledge.
- 2019 Beijing World Flower Art Contest – Champion
- 2015 Interflora World Cup, Berlin – Judge
- 2014 Fusion Flowers International Designer of the Year – 1st Place
- 9th China International Orchid Show (Sanya) – Best Creative Award
- 2014 International Flower Contest Japan – Best in Show, Gold Award and Design Innovation Award
- Asia Cup 2014 (Japan) – 1st Place – Surprise Table Display
- 2013 Fusion Flowers International Designer of the Year – 2 Silver Awards & 1 Bronze Award
- 2012 Fusion Flowers International Designer of the Year – 4th Place
- 2012 Interflora Australia Cup – Winner
- 2011 Interflora Australia Cup – Winner
- Australian Competitor 10th Interflora World Cup 2004 – 3rd Place
You can learn more about Mark here.
