Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 78

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 #wordsandwildflowers2026 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

Quote of the week…

“Live less out of habit and more out of intent.”

Inspirational artist of the week: Maria Likarz-Strauss

Maria Likarz-Strauss (1893-1971) pushed the envelope of textile and fashion design by looking to modernist painters who tested the limits of representational painting, including Cubists and Symbolists, in a comprehensive way no other fashion designer had done before, and thus importantly influenced modern fashion design. Her use of contrasting shapes and colors released textile design from traditional Western European styles, which relied on stylized Victorian and Arts and Crafts motifs. Through these contrasts her textiles achieved more intensity than others, and as with Cubism in painting, these contrasts created the experience of modern life in fabric. In her approach to textile design, I believe she looked specifically to the French modern painters of the 1910s, and in doing so she brought textile design into the modern era more than any other early twentieth century textile designer.

Hand lettering artist of the week: Lilla Rogers

Lilla Rogers is a mentor, illustrator, artist, author, and former top art agent, who has spent more than 40 years in the creative industry. With a degree in fine art and a second degree in illustration, she spent the 1980s working as a full-time, highly successful illustrator, whose art has featured in publications including the New York Times Magazine, Vogue magazine, Rolling Stone magazine, the Grammies, and many more.

She went on to found Lilla Rogers Studio, a visionary art agency which represented three dozen artists from around the world. Work by artists represented by Lilla Rogers Studio has appeared on products worth more than $300 million, including best-selling children’s books, home décor, major ad campaigns, magazines, wall décor, and greetings cards, for clients including Crate & Barrel, Chronicle, the New York Times, Blue Q, Godiva, Barneys New York, Warner Brothers, IKEA, Target, Paperchase, Anthropologie, and hundreds more.

Along the way, Lilla discovered that what she loves most is teaching and mentoring artists: helping them uncover what makes their work unique, and guiding them to build joyful, sustainable, successful creative careers. As both an illustrator and a teacher, Lilla fully understands the creative process. She is renowned for her warm and whimsical teaching style, and her innovative approach that includes breaking everything down into manageable steps.

Through Make Art That Sells’ raved-about, career-changing online courses and live mentorships, Lilla has helped thousands of artists around the world thrive, with many going on to land dream clients, book deals, and flourishing product lines. She also leads in-person creative retreats in Europe through Uptrek, for those craving hands-on inspiration and community.

Lilla has also lectured at venues such as ICON: the Illustration Conference, Printsource NY, the Creative Connection Event, art colleges and corporations, and is frequently interviewed for her expertise as an agent, trendsetter, and artist. She has written a best-selling book, I Just Like to Make Things, and currently writes a column for Uppercase magazine.