Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 57

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…

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

— W.B. Yeats

Inspirational artist of the week: Cornelia O’Donovan

Cornelia O’Donovan was born in 1981, and trained at the Royal College of Art, London.

O’Donovan plays with old folklore and poetry, but in a loose and dreamlike way. She draws particularly on tales native to the British Isles, and especially Celtic poetry and myth – from the tale of Prince Llewellyn’s grief at the sacrifice of his greyhound Gellert, to the figurative ballads of Ellen O’Leary and lines from WB Yeats.

Her paintings are flat, stripped of all perspective or realism, their surfaces hazy and meandering like an old tale retold a thousand times. Roughly rendered yet delicately arranged, she creates patterned compositions reminiscent of old tapestries, into which she plants naïve pre-Modern motifs. Outlines of old figures, ancient heralds, esoteric herbs and familiar animals all appear like inherited objects worn smooth by the touch of innumerable hands.

They retain the homespun quality of medieval rustic artworks, flowing across the canvas like a stroll through a country garden.

Hand lettering artist of the week: David Schmitt

David Schmitt, born on March 11, 1994 in Bamberg, Germany is a self-taught painter and printmaker. After studying Graphic Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg he moved to Barcelona to pursue his career as an artist. In his work, he combines an archaic and childlike aesthetic with bold visual presence and commentary, highlighting texture and rough shapes to capture a timeless simplicity.

“I have always been drawn to a certain aspect of storytelling in painting, I think of it as a crossover between Folk-, Pop-, and Cave-art so for me it feels deeply human. There is so much beauty and truth to be found in traditional craftsmanship and old tales of folklore. I hope that we can continue to maintain our appreciation for the involvement of the human hand and mind with all its imperfections as preserving these practices means preserving the soul in the world that surrounds us.”