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Accent

A particular emphasis or strongly contrasting detail used to highlight a part of a design.

Balance

The actual and visual  stability in a design. Symmetrical balance uses equal amounts of colour and form  on either side of the central axis. Asymmetrical balance uses dissimilar amounts  and placements to achieve visual balance.

Colour

We use a colour wheel with the below colour schemes. This an absolute must for all people who work with fiber, paint or flowers or just want to understand colour.The ultimate colour wheel consisting of eight stencil-like disks that can be placed over ltten's color wheel to compare cool and warm values, complementary colors, and different hues and intensities, this useful and innovative tool  helps designers explore a myriad of harmonious color.

• Near complementary -Two colours adjacent on the colour wheel-almost! One of the colours is immediately beside the direct  opposite. Therefore if green and red are directly opposite, you would use red and yellow green, or red and blue green. Get it? It all becomes clear with a colour wheel! Therefore orange/red has an opposite of blue/green, go over one and you get to blue.
•  Polychromatic -The balanced use of many colours together.
• Split complementary- Two colours opposite on the color wheel- Now replace one of those colours with those either side of it on the colour wheel.There are your 3 colours! So take green the opposite is red, go either side and use red violet and red orange! The example on the right is utilizes red/orange heliconias, and red/violet rolled leaves of the phornium flax, with the green of the Ligularia leaves.
• Tetradic
  Four colours lying equidistant on the colour wheel that’s every third colour from any starting point on the wheel.
• Triadic
  Three colours that lie equidistant on the colour wheel that's every 4th colour on the wheel.

Form

The structural quality of an object, or the  design as a whole. Forms are 3 dimensional, e.g. sphere, cube, or pyramid. They  may be solid or volumetric. Form is identified in space. Shape is two dimensional and is the outlined appearance of a form, e.g., circle, square,  rectangle, triangle

Line

An expressive element which creates a visual  path giving life form  movement. Line direction determines the emotional impact,  and may be active or passive, continuous or broken.

Pattern

This makes an interesting silhouette to provide variety and gives the whole design more personality with similar silk flowers.

Proportion

Proportion is all about how much you use of anything in comparison with other  parts of a design, be it other plant material, other forms, other colours , other spaces  the container or accessories.

Unity

A blending  together of all parts when viewed as a whole.  Unity is all about choosing your  plant material and container carefully so every part of the design in used in harmony so all the parts look great when put together. Therefore the container  colour, size and shape  should be considered as part of the design, often  this  means bringing the colour of the container up into the design.

Texture

The visual and physical surface  quality of plant material and objects. Texture creates character in design.