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

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Quote of the week…

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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Inspirational artist of the week: Conner Nesbit

Conner Nesbit is an acclaimed floral designer best known for winning HBO Max’s floral design competition series Full Bloom, taking home the $100,000 grand prize by creating innovative, storytelling-driven floral work that impressed the judges. 

He first fell into the world of floristry around 2010 at age 18 when he took a job delivering flowers out of financial necessity after high school and quickly became obsessed with the craft, learning names, techniques, and floral design along the way. 

Conner’s journey hasn’t been without challenges: in 2014 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer and shortly afterward lost his mother to ovarian cancer. These experiences deepened his connection to the symbolic nature of flowers and influence his aesthetic, which often explores contrasts and emotional nuance.

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Hand lettering artist of the week: Hatch Show Print

From the restrikes, or historical reprints, of posters for classic films and advertisements for circuses and state fairs, to the custom orders printed in the shop today, the products of Hatch Show Print have always been designed and printed by hand in Nashville, Tennessee.

The shop’s enduring design and production approach is a handmade mainstay in a world of digital design. Specializing in limited-runs of posters in which one designer oversees the entire process from start to finish, including the packing and shipping of the posters, Hatch Show Print’s history of commercial printing continues with the commemorative works of art printed in the shop today.

Sharing long-standing relationships with Grand Ole Opry stars and the Ryman Auditorium, among other historic Nashville landmarks, Hatch Show Print’s posters are woven into the fabric of Music City and beyond. The shop’s reach extends as far as the touring musicians who have traveled with their show posters and as far as the music venues throughout the country and internationally that have ordered their prints for upcoming performances. To see a poster from Hatch Show Print is to see the visual history of Nashville, Tennessee, the Southern United States, and the nation as a whole.

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

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Quote of the week…

“This is why art is so important. Because it can get us to places that we can’t get to any other way.”

— Andrew Garfield

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Inspirational artist of the week: Dora Batty

Dora Margaret Batty (12 January 1891 – 10 July 1966) was a British designer, working in illustration, poster design, pottery and textiles.

Batty was born in Colchester, Essex, the youngest of three daughters of Rev. Thomas Batty and Elizabeth Cooke Hopwood Batty. She attended the Chelmsford School of Science and Art.

Batty designed posters for the Underground Group and for London Transport between 1921 and 1938, producing over 50 different designs in a variety of different styles. From 1932, she taught in the School of Textiles at the Central School of Arts and Crafts.In 1950, she was appointed the Head of School, apost she held until she retired in 1958.

Batty also designed textiles for Helios and ceramics for the Poole Pottery and for Carter & Co, as well as advertisements for Mac Fisheries and K Shoes.She also worked as a book illustrator. She lived in London for many years, but died in Essex in 1966.

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Hand lettering artist of the week: Dr. Atl

Gerardo Murillo Coronado, also known by his signature “Dr. Atl” (October 3, 1875 – August 15, 1964), was a Mexican painter, writer and intellectual. He is most famous for his works inspired by the Mexican landscape, particularly volcanoes, and for being one of the early figures of modern Mexican art. 

Dr. Atl was a key figure in the development of Mexican muralism in the early 20th century, alongside artists like Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. His painting style was heavily influenced by the romanticism of the natural world, focusing on depicting Mexico’s volcanic and montainous terrain. 

In addition to his work as a painter, Dr. Atl was a strong advocate for the cultural and political identity of Mexico, emphasizing the importance of indigenous roots and the country’s natural beauty. He was a prominent intellectual figure and made contributions to the Mexican artistic and political spheres during the early 20th century.

Dr. Atl was also known for his contributions to the development of modern Mexican art education, as well as his writing. His legacy as an artist and cultural figure remains significant in Mexican art history.

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

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Quote of the week…

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

— Maya Angelou

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Inspirational artist of the week: Nadia Yaron

Nadia Yaron is a Brazilian-born American artist of Russian and Italian descent. She lives and works in upstate New York where she sculpts with wood, stone, and metal to reflect themes of fragility, impermanence, and oneness with nature, often informed by her idyllic rural surroundings. Yaron demonstrates impermanence by honoring small transient events such as a fallen leaf, a gust of wind, a flower blooming, or a pink cloud. 

Yaron creates vertical structures that represent the lay of the land as she sees it. Grass, cornfields, trees, mountains, and moon are abstract documentations. She assembles wood and stone to create a magnified slightly anthropomorphic portrait of a flower depicting the sacredness and uniqueness of every flower and furthermore every being. 

Yaron honors the beauty of the universe by embracing the perfection and inherent truth of its natural materials. She works in collaboration with nature. Her wood is intentionally and locally sourced and as a way of giving back, every year she plants native hardwood trees.

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Hand lettering artist of the week: Sarah La Puerta

Sarah La Puerta, née Sarah Gautier, is a musician, calligrapher and writer working in different dimensions. She lives in New York.