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Primary Principles Of Floral Design

To make a beautiful and balanced flower arrangement, you must know the principles of floral design.

It is not enough to just know what type of flowers to put into the arrangement. You need to have some guidelines.

Below are the primary principles of floral design to improve your flower arranging skills.

They are merely guidelines and could be interpreted differently to create beautiful designs.

Accent

Accents are like things you put into your arrangement to make it more interesting to the viewer. Chirtsmas accents are like bells or pinecones. Thanksgiving accents are like wheat or pumpkins.

Accents serve as an aid to your arrangement. It enhances the look.

Your flower arrangement is not about the accents. Use them wisely and appropriately.

Harmony

Harmony is all elements come together to create a unified look for your arrangement. Harmony provides pleasure.

All things in the arrangement must be balanced. Combination of materials, colors, proportion, texture, etc.

In terms of combination of materials, how one material relates to the next. In terms of color, how the colors contrast or blend with each other.

Balance

Is your arrangement symmetrical or assymmetrical?

If symmetrical, it must look the same at whichever angle you look at it. That is a good symmetrical design. There is an imaginary axis line and there are equal amounts of weight on each side of the arrangement.

If assymmetrical, although the materials or colors are different from each side, it must be balanced as a whole.

Proportion

Proportion is the amount of flowers you want to use in regards to the other materials you would like to use in the same arrangement.

One flower relates to the next in several ways, including size, color and shape. A good flower arrangement has good proportions.

Rhythm

Rhythm is simply movement. A flower arrangement can contain movement, which can be seen or non-obvious.

It is achieved by placing materials which naturally carry this feature, like vines or having curvy branches.

Composition

Composition is a collection of individual materials to make a complete flower arrangement.

It is the ultimate overall appearance of the flower arrangement.

Unity

All the individual materials in the flower arrangement must complement each other and complements the container.



All of the above are the primary principles of floral design. There are more than this to a design.

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