TULIP DELIGHT Creative Challenge - Repetition

TULIP DELIGHT
Watercolor - 11x14

I gave myself the Creative Challenge to use repetition, one of the principles of design, to create unity within the art work. With Spring Tulips I repeated the shape of the tulip with five main flowers and was careful to make one of them larger for the focal point. I varied the size of the other four and even though they all have similar colors I used more contrast on and around the main tulip. There is also repetition with the shapes of the leaves and the colors that are woven throughout the whole composition.