Flower Arrangements – 3 Basic Designs for Great Flower Arrangement Designs
When first learning how to create great looking flower arrangements, there are 3 design styles that are the easiest to create – the horizontal, the vertical, and the triangle designs. Each of these 3 design styles are the easiest to follow because everyone can visualize and understand the shapes.
It is important to learn these 3 basic designs first when starting out because they provide the right foundation upon which to build your more complex designs. Mastering these designs is important and fairly easy to do when understanding and visualizing what the arrangement is supposed to look like when it is completed. So a horizontal arrangement will not look like a vertical or triangle shaped design, etc.
The beauty of these simple designs is that you know ahead of time what the finished design should look like and it is pretty easy to make modifications and move your flowers around or trim them when you see them out of place.
The horizontal flower arrangement is a low style arrangement that is longer (width-wise) than it is tall (height-wise). Envision a low designed table centerpiece that is placed on a table that people sitting at the table across from each other can still see each other – this is a horizontal arrangement.
A vertical flower arrangement is just the reverse of the horizontal – you want the design to be taller (height-wise) than it is long (width-wise). All flowers are place vertically in the vase or container. This is a classic vase style arrangement that has a round look to it.
The triangle flower arrangement is just what you would imagine it to be. It is based upon either the equilateral or isosceles triangle shape. Think of this design as being a mixture of both horizontal and vertical with the widest part of the design at the vase level and working it’s way gradually up to the tip of the design. The width and height should be no more than 2 to 3 times the size of the vase width and height. Imagine being able to draw an imaginary line from the tip of the arrangement straight down to the vase. This would divide your arrangement exactly in half and each side would mirror the other.
Even though the three basic flower arrangements design styles are fairly easy to recreate, it may take some extra time and effort in the beginning to actually achieve a beautiful flower arrangement. This is because you will be learning how to cut or trim flowers to the proper length. You will also learn how to use focal flowers, supplemental flowers, and filler flowers appropriately. All of these lessons are learned best by experience, trial and error, and guidance.
In the beginning it is common for new designers to tweak their flower placements in order to achieve the design style chosen and the designing process make seem to take a long time. Eventually with adequate practice, placement of flowers will be correct and gorgeous flower arrangements produced in virtually no time at all.
