Friday, May 15, 2009

A subtle palette - Diane's wedding

Blue is a hard flower color...not too many choices out there that are true blue, so to speak. Delphinium, cornflower, muscari, and hydrangea are a few; but none of these flowers really work well together. They are different shapes, sizes, lengths, vary in tenderness etc. So it is definitely a challenge making them work together. Plus too much of any one color just tends to look washed out - especially BLUE.
So I trusted my own artistic intuition here and married in some purples and some purples on the verge of magenta. I think the results are subtle but very pretty.

Here's the palette before we put the arrangements together:



Here are the finished pieces and my little intern. She gets the best chair for some reason - even though I'm the boss. I'm always standing.




Details



cooling out after a hard day's work in the studio.

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4 comments:

  1. Ken5/16/2009

    Flowers and beanbag chairs. The perfect life!

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  2. Flower Design Events5/17/2009

    Love your blog, it's very cool, your roses are all very beautiful, I've looked through a few of your postings and they're so gorgeous. I'll add you to my reading list!

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  3. Kate Holt5/17/2009

    Thanks Jane! Your work is equally lovely. So amazing to be able to see what other people are doing day to day on the other side of the world.

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  4. Betsy5/22/2009

    I have a little floral helper myself. She made her first flower arrangement at age 2 1/2 for her "boyfriend" at Valentine's day. Your work is fantastic.

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