Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 54

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

Quote of the week…

“Play is the highest form of research.”

— Albert Einstein

Inspirational Artist of the week… Isabella Ducrot

Isabella Ducrot (b. 1931, Naples, Italy) is an artist and writer with a career spanning four decades. Ducrot’s oeuvre is deeply rooted in an extraordinary and enduring interest in fabrics, that is central to both her pictorial works and writings. Sourced during extensive travels over the course of her life, Ducrot has amassed an exquisite collection of fabric that spans centuries and bear origins from across Asia and Eastern Europe – including Russia, Turkey, China, India and Tibet. She considers these fabrics as an art form in and of themselves, to which she has dedicated herself to many years of focused study and views essential to her education. Employing diverse media – including pencil, pastel, ink and watercolor, which she applies to rare papers – her works compress an array of cultural references, ranging from philosophy to folklore and textile weaving. At both intimate and expansive scales, her work reflects a fascination with repetition, form, and color, informed by the rare textiles in her collection. Ducrot’s work was the subject of a recent solo exhibition, Profusione at le Consortium Museum, Dijon and her installation, titled Big Aura was featured at the Dior Haute Couture SS 2024 runway show at the Musee Rodin, Paris. Ducrot has presented solo exhibitions at Petzel Gallery, New York, Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Sadie Coles, London and Standard (Oslo), Oslo. Ducrot lives and works in Rome.

Handlettering artist of the week: Valeria Molinari

Valeria Molinari (she/they) is a multidisciplinary creative from Venezuela, with a diverse practice that includes textile work, video installation, editorial illustration, art direction and community organizing. Experimenting with different mediums is one of her favourite things in the world. For the past roughly ten years, a lot of her work has existed in the cross between art and activism, dealing with the language surrounding feminism. Using fibers as her base medium, she likes to incorporate calligraphy and hand lettering to display her messages. Her practice involves self-examination and research, trying to remind the viewer about the power of words, of concepts, phrases, and lines that have been unquestioned by people for generations, helping to perpetuate thoughts and behaviors around gender, class, race, and sexuality.