Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 11
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:
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.”
—Frank Zappa
Inspirational Artist of the Week: Sonia Delaunay
Who was Sonia Delaunay? She was an avant-garde artist, a pioneering textile-designer, a woman whose influence extended to some of the biggest names in 20th-century art (to name but a couple: Chagall and Klee).
However, Delaunay wasn’t just an artist or a woman with a vision: she was a veritable whirlwind of boundary-breaking artistic expression and design. As early as 1912, Delaunay was already dabbling in abstraction – before even Malevich, Mondrian or Miro.
Her particular theoretical approach to abstraction was not lauded in her time. It was rejected in favour of less lyrical geometricity and a more rigorous process. The ‘abstraction ‘ element was present in the artistic work at the time – but the ‘expressionism’ that implied an intuitive process was lacking. She aimed to marry the worlds of order and architecture with the fluidity and freedom of tone and form – which Jacques Damase characterised as the ‘rational in the irrational.’
Hand lettering inspiration of the Week: Jean- Michel Basquiat
Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where rap, punk, and street artcoalesced into early hip-hop culture. By the early 1980s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in Documentain Kassel, Germany. At 22, he became one of the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennialin New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his artwork in 1992.
Basquiat’s art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique. He used social commentary in his paintings as a tool for introspection and for identifying with his experiences in the black community, as well as attacks on power structures and systems of racism.
Since his death at the age of 27 in 1988, Basquiat’s work has steadily increased in value. In 2017, Untitled, a 1982 painting depicting a black skull with red and yellow rivulets, sold for a record-breaking $110.5 million, becoming one of the most expensive paintings ever purchased.
Lori Siebert & Co. 