Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 71

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…

“Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness”,

— Anni Albers

Inspirational Artist of the week: Pep Carrió

Pep Carrió (Spain, 1963) is an artist, graphic designer and book illustrator known for his exploration of the subconscious and spontaneous creativity. His Visual Diary project stands out for the inclusion of drawings, paintings and collages with recurring motifs such as heads, houses, birds, and other natural elements where he reflects human themes such as loneliness, search and natural beauty. In his work he uses various techniques and is characterized by a color palette dominated by blues and grays, evoking calm, reflection and melancholy.

Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Tom Schamp

Born in 1970, Tom Schamp grew up in and around Brussels. He now lives in the suburb of that same city. After graduating from the Applied Arts department at the Sint-Lukas Art School in Brussels, he spent an additional year studying Graphic Design in Poznan (Poland).

Tom has a long track record. His illustrations are aimed at both adults and children. He receives assignments from an international mix of customers, from the very commercial commissions over magazine illustrations to picture books. Over the past twenty years, Tom published thirty-five picture books, many of which have been translated in different languages.

Tom has a ‘complex-naive’ style, often spiced with a touch of humor. With acrylic paint he achieves the typical color intensity. The past decade Tom paints the different elements of an illustration separately on cardboard, which he later scans to make digital compositions. This technique allows him to find the right rithme more easily and offers Tom the right balance between craft and technology.

Tom’s later work is far more detailed than his older illustration up to the point that his illustratons need a trained eye to catch every subtlety. He has a fascination for strange objects, little hand painted boxes, stamps, animal-shaped coffeepots, you name it.