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Was it African or Indian elephant?.....
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Just any old elephant
Don't think we'll be getting the job (thank God), turned out they were from miles away and I didn't much fancy posting an elephant. They said we were the only florist that would even quote them!
Creating the design
As a general rule the more complicated it is the bigger it needs to be. The Met badge I did really needed to be twice that size, I really struggled to make good of that tribute and when I was doing it had serious doubts that it was going to work (I had to do it that size to fit on the coffin top). If the image or object is simple then you are ok on a small scale.
The next thing you need to consider is proportion! Whatever you do should have a sense of true proportion. A real dart board is only 18’ but if I did it that size I would have struggled with the bulls eye and the double sections. I scaled it up to 24” so that the smallest sections were big enough to take a single flower head but I still kept the overall proportions of each section. You need to do this with anything you scale up or down. There’s some pics on my web site of cut out cars (I’ll post them here) By working to a scaled down, in proportion image you can create a particular make of car. It does help if you are handy with your computer but I used to do this by hand with a ruler and it works just the same, just takes a bit longer.
Once you’ve decided on the dimensions and proportion you can begin to work on the details. I use my computer a lot for selecting and scaling images. I can’t go into the process of scaling images etc. here but those of you who aren’t long out of school probably know more than I do and those that have kids of secondary school age will be able to get help from them.