Floral Design

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Floral Design

• Understanding the Design Elements

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Interest Approach

• Take a look at the examples of floral designs on
  your desk. Compare and contrast these
  arrangements with your neighbor. Look at the
  shape, color, texture and size. Try to visualize
  the same arrangements in a different color or
  size. Would the arrangements have the same
  visual effect? Why or why not?

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Student Objectives

• 1. List and describe the major forms (or shapes)
  used in floral design.
• 2. Explain how space and depth enhance floral
  design.
• 3. Describe the importance of texture in floral
  design.
• 4. Explain how color influences floral work.

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Vocabulary

• Advancing color
• Analogous
• Color wheel
• Complimentary
• Depth
• Design elements
• Filler flowers
• Form
• Form flowers

• Free form
• Geometric
• Line
• Line materials
• Mass flowers
• Monochromatic
• Naturalistic
• Polychromatic
• Primary colors

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Vocabulary Cont.

• Receding colors
• Secondary colors
• Shape
• Space
• Tertiary colors
• Texture

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What Are the Major Forms or Shapes Used in Floral
Design?

• Floral arrangements are composed of flowers,
  greenery and containers
• The physical characteristics that the designer
  uses to create the arrangements are called design
  elements
• Form and shape are the first two design elements

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• Form refers to the 3-dimensional outline of the
  arrangement
• Shape is the 2-dimensional term for form
• The common forms used in floral design are
  geometric, naturalistic and free form
• Geometric shapes are most often circles or
  triangles
• Can be varied into ovals, fans, crescents, right
  triangles, isosceles triangles and asymmetrical
  triangles
• Naturalistic designs mirror the natural plant
  growth Include groupings of plant material,
  using branches to symbolize trees and shorter
  flowers the undergrowth

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• Free form arrangements are more contemporary
  Very creative and do not have any particular
  design rules
• All forms of arrangement are created through the
  use of lines
• Line is the visual movement between two points in
  an arrangement
• Placement creates shape and expresses emotions
• Can be created through the use of line material
• Line materials (like snapdragon, liatris and
  scotch broom) are used to create definite
  vertical, horizontal, diagonal or curvilinear
  lines

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Design Forms
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• The remainder of the arrangement is created
  through the combination of form, mass and filler
  flowers
• Form flowers are those with distinctive shapes
• Ex. Orchids, lilies
• Mass flowers are round, solid flowers
• Ex. Mums, carnations, roses
• Filler flowers are light, airy flowers that fill
  in the space between other flowers
• Ex. Babys breath, sea foam statice

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How Do Space and Depth Enhance Floral Design?

• The areas in the design that have no flowers are
  just as important as the flowers themselves
• Areas devoid of flowers are called space
• It is important for designers to leave space in
  their arrangements
• Space increases the apparent size of a design by
  adding space and depth to the design

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• Depth gives the arrangement more of a three
  dimensional form than just a shape
• Achieved by tucking flowers in further so they
  are partially hidden and dangling flowers upward
  or to the side
• Space makes the arrangement appear to be larger
  even though no more materials are used Occurs if
  the flowers are placed away from each other
• Helps to save money by creating a larger, more
  expensive-looking design
• Adds more interest in the design

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How Is Texture Important in Floral Design?

• Floral designers can create visually attractive
  arrangements by combining plant material with
  different textures
• Texture is the design element that refers to the
  surface quality of the plant material
• Plant material can be rough, smooth, leathery,
  velvety, satiny or hairy
• It can also have visual texture - fine, airy,
  lacy, delicate, bold or coarse
• By varying textures in a design, it will attract
  attention and hold the viewers interest

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Looking at the pictures to the right, describe
the textures of each of the flowers
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How Does Color Influence Floral Work?

• Color is probably the most obvious design element
• An arrangement can lose its appeal if the colors
  are not striking
• Color contributes to peoples feelings
• They have also influenced occasions or events
• For example, red symbolizes love Orange
  symbolizes Halloween

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Colors and Emotions/occasions
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• The color wheel is made up of primary, secondary
  and tertiary colors
• Primary red, blue, yellow
• Secondary orange, green, violet
• Two primary colors combined
• Tertiary one primary combined with one
  secondary color
• Names are always hyphenated
• For example blue-green, orange-red
• There are six color schemes that designers can
  use to create beautiful arrangements
• Created by the combination of one or more colors

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Color Schemes
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Monochromatic
Analogous
Complimentary ex. Blue orange
Triadic
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Polychromatic
Split-Complimentary
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• No matter what color scheme is used, remember
  they are viewed differently depending on what
  colors they are combined with
• Advancing colors move towards the viewer
• For example yellow, red and orange
• Receding colors disappear into the background
• For example violet, blue and green

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Summary

• List the twelve design forms.
• How is a geometric form different from a
  naturalistic one?
• Describe the difference between form, mass and
  filler flowers. Give an example of each.
• How can depth and space enhance a design?
• What is texture? Why should you vary the texture
  in an arrangement?
• Name the three primary and secondary colors.

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Summary Cont.

• How do you create a tertiary color?
• Using the color wheel, give an example of each of
  the color schemes.
• What are advancing colors? Receding colors?