2017 Design Examples
Joan and Carolyn explain and demonstrate the August Design requirement, Transparency:
- A Creative Design including see-through element/s that permit some components to be viewed through others.
- For flower show purposes, the term "transparency" is interpreted as "to be seen through easily"; therefore, in addition to transparent materials, translucent, diaphanous, and grid-like materials are also acceptable.
- Plant material. Examples are skeletonized foliage, branches, sea fans, open weave grasses, Gypsophila, etc.
- Man-made material. Examples: acrylic, glass, mesh, screening, open-weave fabric, grillwork, etc.
- By positioning solid forms in front of and behind transparent ones an increased awareness of depth is realized.
- Special lighting, particularly back and/or under-lighting, may further enhance the effect of a transparency.