Why is color important in Floral Design?

1. Why is color important in Floral Design?

2. What is the purpose? • Provokes emotion • What emotions are flowers associated with?

3. How do colors make us feel? • Warm Colors • Reds and yellows give us a “warm” feeling • Remind us of fires and sunlight • Cool Colors • Blues and greens give us a “cool” feeling • Remind us of sky, water, ice, foliage

4. How do colors make us feel? • To create a bright cheerful arrangement, use colors like yellows, oranges, reds, and whites • Blues, greens, and whites are cool and refreshing • Violets and purples give an almost sad feeling • Black and shades produce a depressing effect

5. What Do Colors Mean?

6. White • Innocence • Simplicity

7. Gray • Quiet • Delicate

8. Black • Despair

9. Browns • Slow • Surety

10. Red • Love • Outward Interests

11. Orange • Cheery • Spirited

12. Yellow • Happiness • Optimism

13. Blue • Conservative • Sadness

14. Green • Sensitive • Life

15. Purple • Sentimental • Reflective

16. Scenarios • What colors would you use for a funeral? • What colors would you use for a wedding? • What colors would you use for someone in the hospital?

17. Primary Colors • Red • Yellow • Blue • ALL COLORS COME FROM A COMBINATION OF THESE THREE COLORS!

18. Secondary Colors • Green, Orange, Purple • Created by mixing two primary colors

19. Tertiary Colors • Made by combining a primary color with a secondary color. • Always list primary color name first • Examples • Red orange • Blue green • Yellow green

20. Paint Chips • What’s the difference?

21. Tint • Color plus white

22. Tone • Color plus grey

23. Shade • Color plus hue

24. How Do You Make A Color Wheel?

25. Primary Colors • Add your three primary colors: • Red • Yellow • Blue

26. Secondary Colors • In the middle slot between each group • Add a mix of Red and Yellow to make Orange • Add a mix of Red and Blue to make Purple • Add a mix of Blue and Yellow to make Green

27. Adding Tints • Add white to each color to give its tint

28. Adding Shades • To make a shade of a color (darker), you can add black. • HINT: Rather than add Black you can add a little bit of its opposite color on the color wheel. This creates lots of other colors. • Ex: Yellows become Yellow Ochres, Greens become Raw Umbers and Burnt Siennas.

29. The Color WheelTHE FINISHED PRODUCT!!

30. The Color Wheel • Full Color Wheel Colors • Primary: Blue, Yellow, Red • Secondary: Orange, Green, Purple • Tertiary: Equal mixture of a primary and secondary color • Primary color placed first • Red-Violet • Blue-Green

31. Color Harmonies

32. Color Harmonies • Generally two types: • Related (Monochromatic and Analogous) – Neighbors on color wheel • Contrasted – Strangers across wheel from each other

33. Color HarmoniesRELATED MONOCHROMATIC • One, single color supplemented by tints, tones, or shades of that one color

34. Color HarmoniesRELATED MONOCHROMATIC • Tints • Color + White • Hue • Family name of a color (Ex: red)

35. Color HarmoniesRELATED MONOCHROMATIC • Shades • Color + Black • Tone • Color + Gray (mixture of white and black)

36. Monochromatic

37. Color HarmoniesRELATED ANALOGOUS • Achieved by using colors adjoining each other on color wheel • Example: Red with Orange, Yellow

39. Color Harmonies – ContrastedComplementary Harmony • Colors directly opposite each other • Examples: • Orange and Blue • Red and Green • Violet and Yellow

41. Color Harmonies – ContrastedTriadic Harmony • Combines three colors equidistant, forming a triangle • Example: • Red, Blue, Yellow

43. Color Harmonies – ContrastedTetrad Harmony • Combines four colors, equidistant, forming a square • Must use 1 primary color, 1 secondary color, 2 tertiary colors • Example: • Red, Green, Yellow-Orange, Blue-Violet

44. Poly Chromatic • Includes a wide variety of colors • Anything goes

45. Movement Through Colors • Advancing color- Moves towards the viewer • Receding color- Disappears into the background • Example: With yellow and purple, • Yellow = advancing • Purple= receding