Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 119
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…
“The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.”
— Junot Diaz
Inspiration of the week: J. J. Grandville
Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard was a 19th century French illustrator and caricaturist who published under the pseudonym of J.J. Grandville.
Though the designs of Grandville are occasionally unnatural and absurd, they usually display keen analysis of character and marvellous inventive ingenuity, and his humour is always tempered and refined by delicacy of sentiment and a vein of sober thoughtfulness.
Grandville’s ability for political provocation made his work much in demand. He worked in a wide variety of formats, from his first job illustrating the parlor game Old Maid, to illustrated newspaper strips of which he was a master. His illustrations for Le Diable à Paris (“The Devil In Paris”; 1844–46) were used by Walter Benjamin for his study of that city as an urban organism. One of Grandville’s supreme achievements, at a time when French printing technology was ascendant, was Les Fleurs Animées, a series of images that are both poetic and satirical.
Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Josef Flejšar
Born May 28, 1922 Nový Bydžov, died May 17, 2010 Prague
He was devoted to applied graphics (poster, book graphics, coordinated visual style), exhibition and monumental work (designs for tapestries and decorative panels, sgraffito painting and drawing).
He was a member of the Association of Czech Artists and the Alliance Graphique Internationale. He studied at the State School of Applied Arts in Prague (1941-1943) under Professor Jaroslav Benda. After the liberation of the Republic, he returned to the Academy of Arts and Crafts (1945-1947) to the studio for applied and promotional graphics of Professor Antonín Strnadel.
After graduation, he joined the Schlosser advertising studio, later collaborating with a group of promotional graphic artists in the Tvar cooperative of visual artists, which in the 1950s merged with the advertising group of Josef Burjanek and Remo (Advertising and Fashion) to form the Propagační tvorba cooperative.
He was one of the founders of the Group of Industrial Artists of the Art Discussion, called Bilance after the exhibitions they held in 1958-1968. He was involved in poster design, book editing and illustration. He created more than four hundred poster designs, graphically edited fifty books and participated in more than two hundred collective exhibitions at home and abroad.
Many of his posters won awards at international competitions. Josef Flejšar’s work is represented in the collections of the world’s leading galleries and museums (MoMa – New York, Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, The Royal Gallery London and others).
