Floristic Dialog: TEXTURE
Assignment Two Submission

Name: Rosemary Passafiume-McLean

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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?

Hybrid Mix of 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.

cotton balls-wispy
ribbon-shiny and translucent
tissue dipped in wax -stiff, rugged
popcorn - light, fluffy birch bark,
Betula-smooth, varicoloured curly willow,
Salix matsudana -smooth, flowing.
wooden balls- round, rough, sparkly lotus seed pod,
Nelumbo nucifera, -patterned
bead strands- shiny,
glitter glass balls- translucent, incandescent
packing paper, dull, patterned,
Spanish moss, limp, stringy, transparent
sparkly paper,- iridescent, shimmering
fungus-round, smooth,
dryer vent aluminum- shiny, bright
corrugated cardboard - ridges, strong
chicken wire- pattern, rolling form, strong pussy willows,
Salix discolor, fuzzy, bumpy, soft, strong line
rose, rosa, ruffled, fluffy, smooth
spray roses, rosa multiflora -lively,
carnations, dianthus caryophyllus - ruffled, strong
tulips, Tulipa -smooth, shiny,
hypericum berries- shiny, round, airy
variegated boxwood, Buxus sempervirens'variegata' -eye-catching,
the string of hearts, Ceropegia - heart shape, variegated


Instructor Feedback

Per Benjamin

Great vocabulary to describe all your lovely textures.

I really do love the way you keep mainly inside the white colour spectra.

That way you put all focus son the texturs in the design.

Very smart indeed!

Then you have flowered it carefully not to cover all of tech structure. 

Things to improve would have been to get the willow into the structure and then maybe fish some smaller blooms swell.

But a great pice to show textures all in all!

Hitomi Gilliam

I agree that you used Bridging

An amazing list of descriptive texture words!

I enjoyed your sense of adventure with the non-botanical texture components to create your structure (the ART) for flowering.  I love your playful attitude with how you cut, trimmed, twisted, the techniques you used to create this assemblage… very artful.

By going all white… achromatic (colorless) in traditional color study… but with Per’s color theory, this would be a monochromatic using color, white.  By going in this direction, you took color out of the equation and put texture to be the focus element without the distraction of color.

This multi-media experiment looks fun and very productive in achieving a solid textural experience.

The flowers’ color (greens) are kept to the minimum and pale so that fresh texture of flowers interplays with the underlying textures, thus there is a literal textural bridging of non-botanicals to botanicals.

Very clever design.