Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 89

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…

“A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.”

— Frederick Douglass

Inspiration of the week: Rosie Harbottle

Rosie Harbottle is an artist and designer based on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon. Using a palette of rich colours, brush strokes and mark making, she takes note from the changing seasons, landscapes, flowers and the simple joy of everyday objects to create colourful and poetic pieces that celebrate the natural world and living alongside it.

Rosie’s paintings are often emotional representations of how a flower or plant expresses itself and colour is central to her work as she strives to capture nature’s personality. Mythology and symbolism are intertwined in her practice, as well as music. Often favouring folk music to help ground and slow down her approach to each new piece. She also draws upon memories of a childhood spent in nature and song.

Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Randall Slaughter

Randall Slaughter has a Bachelors degree in Graphic Design from The University of Akron. and also 11 years of learning and lettering alongside Le Buu, Martha Ericson, Terri Long and Mike Gold while working for American Greetings.
“My work is predominantly inspired by the energy found in the artwork of the abstract expressionist painters such as Rauschenberg, Pollock, and DeKooning,” he said. “The colors, the layering of images and the spontaneous line work/mark making are the source of this energy. I am naturally drawn to color, texture and letters/type and am passionate about combining all of these in an effort to uniquely express how I see the world around me.”