Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 76

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…

“I’m through accepting limits ‘Cause someone says they’re so Some things I cannot change But ’til I try, I’ll never know.”

— Stephen Schwartz

Inspirational artist of the week: Lois Dodd

Lois Dodd (born 1927 in Montclair, New Jersey) is an American painter. Dodd was a key member of New York’s postwar art scene. She played a large part and was involved in the wave of modern artists including Alex Katz and Yvonne Jacquette who explored the coast of Maine in the latter half of the 20th century.

For over fifty years Dodd has painted her immediate everyday surroundings at the places she has chosen to live and work – the Lower East Side, rural Mid-Coast Maine and the Delaware Water Gap. Dodd’s small, intimately-scaled paintings are almost always completed in one plein-air sitting. Her subjects include rambling New England out buildings, lush summer gardens, dried leafless plants, nocturnal moonlight skies and views through interior windows. She often returns to familiar motifs repeatedly at different times of the year with dramatically varied results.

Hand lettering artist of the week: Edward Goss

Born in Toronto, Canada, Edward Goss left home at 17 to work in the construction industry before later earning a degree in horticulture. A self-taught artist, he began his creative journey in 2002. His preferred mediums are oil and coloured pencils, but his work also incorporates paper, cardboard, and adhesive tape. The concepts of repetition and layering are central to his work, evident in both his paintings and sculptures.

Goss has travelled extensively, living in New Mexico and London. His career took on an international dimension when he collaborated with Comme des Garçons, a Japanese haute couture house known for its ventures into the art world. Notable achievements of the brand include an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1986 and several collections in collaboration with artists like Invader, Kaws, and Yu Minjun.

Edward Goss’s art is intentionally bold in colour and energetic in execution. His work is defined by the intricate use of collage, cut-outs, scrapings, and layered colours. His visual motifs, along with the impulse driving his brushstrokes, align with the neo-expressionist movement. His repeated use of letters across his works forms a sort of alphabet of the unconscious. Yet beyond a mere desire for repetition, his work is a constant exploration of how to recreate and reflect its impact on the world.