Floristic Dialog: TEXTURE
Assignment Two Submission

Name: Allison Lavigne

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Answers

For this week's assignment, you were to choose a mix of either 1) Natural Botanical Textures, or 2) Hybrid Mix of Textures. Which did you choose?

Natural Botanical Textures

Please identify your design as a Texture BRIDGE or EXTRACTION

BRIDGE

Please provide a list of words for each of the Textures and corresponding materials used in your design.

Hard
Brittle
Rough
Thin
Straight
Knobby
Rough
Wispy
Wavy
Thorny
Smooth
Soft
Supple
Buttery
Ruffled
Squiggly
Layered
Silky
Waxy
Rubbery
Lacey
Sporadic
Glittery
Crispy
Fluttery
Pillow
Spongey
Woody
Cold, hard, smooth glass


Instructor Feedback

Per Benjamin

First of all great vocabulary to describe your textures.

The main structure and the flowering of that is beautiful. We did talk and question about those tulips standing in the front.

Are they meant to be a part of the design? 

If so I would advise you to use them inside of the structure instead of as now create a competing focus area.

Then I would like to see a beter build out bridge. Adding more gradations.

Maybe using some dried materials and also bigger variation of foliage.

But understand it might be difficult to source all needed.

Hitomi Gilliam

I think Bridging was your intent, but there is a separation of texture work in the structure to the flowers.  I would like to have seen more interplay of flowers with the background pussywillow for instance so that they play side by side with each other.

Your list of words indicate a multitude of visual and textural experiences collected, yet they are separated into structure, away from the flowering.  I think in texture focus work, you need to marry the textures so you can enjoy them playing off of one another.

The structure that you built with dried materials looks great.  Build it out more so that some of the components will show side by side with the flowers.

You designed an arrangement using the structure as a distant background, not interactively.

All the flowers which are flowing out of the texture are also very similar in tactility.

Tulips are separated into a grouping away from the main design.  Include the tulips into the main design, with beargrass hugging along it over overlaid… and caressing up to the pussy willow catkins, so that the tactile quality are being experienced visually by touching or by veiling, or crossing over them.

Radial designing creates outward display of blooms, the blooms are seen leaving the design to stand out… with textural work, the focus and details become more profound from designing outside in, with crossing lines and overlays.