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…

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

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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.

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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.

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 #wordsandwildflowers2025 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

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Quote of the week…

“Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.”

— Oscar Wilde

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Inspirational artist of the week: Charles Rennie MacIntosh

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was a pivotal Scottish architect, artist, and designer, key to the Glasgow Style, blending Art Nouveau with Japanese simplicity, known for iconic works like the Glasgow School of Art and Willow Tearooms, characterized by geometric forms, natural motifs (the Mackintosh Rose), and functional beauty, and whose later years saw a shift to expressive watercolors before his death from cancer in London.

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Hand lettering artist of the week: Tabby Booth

Tabby Booth is a Cornwall-based artist known for her bold, signature silhouettes that bridge the gap between illustration and traditional folk art. With a passion for interiors, each piece is designed with this in mind, threaded with themes of beasts, folklore, the sea, and the captivating charm of outsider art.

Her latest work draws inspiration from the ancient art of Scrimshaw, etching designs into bone and ivory, reinterpreting the tradition with modern sensibilities. Using the sgraffito technique, Tabby layers paint and wax onto wood, carving out intricate details with sharp tools to create richly textured, striking compositions. Each piece is uniquely crafted to complement a carefully sourced vintage frame, blending contemporary artistry with a sense of history and nostalgia.After studying Illustration at Central Saint Martins, Tabby co-founded Cygnets Art School and, more recently, Sailors Jail Gallery in Falmouth with her artist husband, James Heslip.

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 #wordsandwildflowers2025 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

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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

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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.

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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.

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

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Quote of the week…

“Creativity is a continual surprise.”

— Ray Bradbury

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Inspirational artist of the week: Emanuel Josef Margold

Emanuel Josef Margold (1889 – 1962) was an Austrian architect, interior designer, ceramicist and silversmith. Josef Hoffmann taught him at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna.At the Wiener Werkstätte, he became Hoffmann’s assistant. He and Theodor Wende were the final painters to settle at the Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse-artists’ Darmstadt’s colony Darmstadt in 1911. He was a prolific designer of furniture, glass, and porcelain in Darmstadt..

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Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Linzie Hunter

Linzie Hunter is an award-winning illustrator, author and hand-lettering artist based in London, UK. In addition to illustrating numerous book covers and picture books, she has worked with a diverse range of international clients including Apple, Nike, Macy’s, Hallmark and The BBC.

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

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Quote of the week…

“I close my eyes and I can see
The world that’s waiting up for me
That I call my own
Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
A million dreams for the world we’re gonna make
For the world we’re gonna make.”

— from The Greatest Showman

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Inspirational artist of the week: Jordy van den Nieuwendijk

Jordy van den Nieuwendijk (b. 1985) is a Dutch artist currently living and working in Melbourne. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague mid 2011, where he held a funeral and memorial service for his then alter-ego ‘Superoboturbo’.

Through painting, Jordy explores fundamental objects of everyday life. Working with primary colour palettes and simplified shape structures, he has a talent for examining subject matter in series that innovate inside carefully controlled boundaries. While freeing himself from the choice between abstract or figurative image forms, he creates a field of tension reinforced by the timeless character of his work. His tendency towards this style of painting could be described as new purism. He has had solo exhibitions in Amsterdam (De Voorkamer), Rotterdam (Kunsthal), Düsseldorf (Ninasagt), London (Public Gallery), New York (Moiety) and Melbourne (Sophie Gannon).

As a commercial illustrator, he has worked on projects for numerous clients such as Apple, American Express, Dropbox, Hermés, Jacquemus, The New York Times, Rimowa, Vogue and WeTransfer. Always injecting elements of fun and playfulness into his editorial work, he maintains a truly unique and discernible approach.

Jordy’s work walks a charming and endearing line between the mature and naive. Often (if not always) it conveys an underlying optimism which is assuredly refreshing in our contemporary culture. Jordy is represented by agents Monsieur l’Agent (Paris) and Big Active(London).

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Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Maira Kalman

Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York City with her family at the age of four.

She was raised in bucolic Riverdale, the Bronx. She now lives in Manhattan.

MK has written/illustrated over 30 books for adults and children.

She has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker.

She has created textiles for Isaac Mizrahi and Kate Spade and sets for Mark Morris.

Other collaborations have been with Nico Muhly, Alex Kalman, Michael Pollan, David Byrne, John Heginbotham and Gertrude Stein.

Her watch and clock designs appear under the M&Co label, the design studio created by her late husband Tibor Kalman.

She has won many awards and given numerous talks, including several TED talks.

Her art has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world.