Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 7

We LOVE research and learning as a way to get inspired and boost ideas and creativity!! So, Kenzie and I are going to be sharing the inspiration that we collect here in our second newsletter…. once a week!!!

Here’s how it works:

We provide the inspiration. You interpret it however you wish… any medium, any size. It is meant to inspire lettering and floral art combined together. But, you can:

Just do the florals, just do the lettering, or combine them together.
Use the provided quote for your piece or select your own.
Use colors from one of the inspiration images or select your own favorites
Create the floral art… as a still life in a vase, a single flower, a border, a pattern, a bouquet

Hope you will create with us and post your work at #wordsandwildflowers2024 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

We will be checking and sharing some of our favorites. AND… there may be surprise guest judges and PRIZES!!!

Quote of the week:

Use your voice for kindness

Your ears for compassion

Your hands for charity

Your mind for truth

And your heart for love.

Inspirational Artist of the Week: Kari Christensen

Kari Christensen was a leading Norwegian ceramic artist, born Feb 1938 and died 5 Feb 1997. She was educated at the National College of Art and Design, Oslo between 1956-1961. Between 1961 and 1965 she was employed as a designer at the Alumina factory (Royal Copenhagen) where she was one a group of 6 designers who worked on the Tenera range developed by the then art director Nils Thorsson. In 1967 she set up her own studio in Oslo. She was also a visiting lecturer at the National College of Art and Design.

Hand lettering Inspiration of the week: Howard Finster

The Reverend Howard Finster was a religious outsider artist. Because Finster realized that his congregation did not remember his sermons even minutes after he had finished, he published religious songs and poetry in local newspapers in the 1930s and hosted a radio prayer show in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He claims God charged him to illustrate his religious visions in 1976 when “A warm feeling came over me to paint sacred art.”

Finster began building his everchanging environmental sculpture, Paradise Garden,on swampy land behind his house in the early 1960s. Composed of walkways and constructions made from cast-off pieces of technology, the Garden assembles individual monuments to human inventors into an all-encompassing “Memorial to God.” Much of the building material in the garden was accumulated from Finster’s television and bicycle repair businesses and his twenty-one other trades.