Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 54
Posted on July 21, 2025
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
Quote of the week…
“Play is the highest form of research.”
— Albert Einstein
Inspirational Artist of the week… Isabella Ducrot
Isabella Ducrot (b. 1931, Naples, Italy) is an artist and writer with a career spanning four decades. Ducrot’s oeuvre is deeply rooted in an extraordinary and enduring interest in fabrics, that is central to both her pictorial works and writings. Sourced during extensive travels over the course of her life, Ducrot has amassed an exquisite collection of fabric that spans centuries and bear origins from across Asia and Eastern Europe – including Russia, Turkey, China, India and Tibet. She considers these fabrics as an art form in and of themselves, to which she has dedicated herself to many years of focused study and views essential to her education. Employing diverse media – including pencil, pastel, ink and watercolor, which she applies to rare papers – her works compress an array of cultural references, ranging from philosophy to folklore and textile weaving. At both intimate and expansive scales, her work reflects a fascination with repetition, form, and color, informed by the rare textiles in her collection. Ducrot’s work was the subject of a recent solo exhibition, Profusione at le Consortium Museum, Dijon and her installation, titled Big Aura was featured at the Dior Haute Couture SS 2024 runway show at the Musee Rodin, Paris. Ducrot has presented solo exhibitions at Petzel Gallery, New York, Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Sadie Coles, London and Standard (Oslo), Oslo. Ducrot lives and works in Rome.
Handlettering artist of the week: Valeria Molinari
Valeria Molinari (she/they) is a multidisciplinary creative from Venezuela, with a diverse practice that includes textile work, video installation, editorial illustration, art direction and community organizing. Experimenting with different mediums is one of her favourite things in the world. For the past roughly ten years, a lot of her work has existed in the cross between art and activism, dealing with the language surrounding feminism. Using fibers as her base medium, she likes to incorporate calligraphy and hand lettering to display her messages. Her practice involves self-examination and research, trying to remind the viewer about the power of words, of concepts, phrases, and lines that have been unquestioned by people for generations, helping to perpetuate thoughts and behaviors around gender, class, race, and sexuality.
Want to COME and EXPLORE Provence with me !!??
Posted on July 18, 2025
Want to COME and EXPLORE Provence with me !!??
With your local hosts and guides Maria and Mathieu.
Activities will include:
• Participate in mixed media workshops focused on Mixed media birds and flowers with me!!! I’ll share lots of fun techniques… for any skill level.
• Be with YOUR PEOPLE!! I LOVE being with kindred creative spirits!!! Long time bonds and friendships are formed!!
• Enjoy daily delicious meals prepared with fresh products and care by chef Mathieu and Maria
• Take strolls around unbeaten paths in the beautiful nature of Provence through the hills overlooking the old town
• Visit the littoral, the islands, and its breath-taking coves
• We will take you through the alleys of the historic center of Hyères, this magic city where numerous writers and painters have come to find inspiration since the dawn of time. Artists such as Edith Warton, RL Stevenson, Noailles, Picasso, and Jean Cocteau amongst others, contributed in their time to shaping the rich art heritage of Hyères
• Visit colorful markets, discover and taste Provençal specialties
I AM SO EXCITED!!! My first time in Provence!
Would LOVE for you to be with me on this adventure!!!
Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 53
Posted on July 14, 2025
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
Quote of the week…
“Maybe we can release the birds from our chests and chase them straight into the lives we’ve always held inside us anyway.”
— Victoria Erickson
Inspirational Artist of the week: Peggi Kroll-Roberts
Award-winning artist Peggi Kroll-Roberts was trained at Arizona State University and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
Peggi worked as a fashion and advertising illustrator before transitioning to fine art. Her artworks are featured in the Laguna Beach Art Museum and the Pasadena Historical Museum.
Using intense color and value to accentuate her subject, she moved into fine art with a bold palette, a love for small paintings and a very loose style that achieves a lot with a few very energetic brush strokes. She prefers to suggest reality rather than render it.
Peggi paints animated figures, and breaks away from conventional still life with playful paintings of everyday scenes: cosmetics, the occasional coffee cup or slab of butter. Peggi’s work gives us a new appreciation of daily life.
Peggi’s realist impressionist and expressionist styles are striking, and she has won multiple fine art and plein air awards in addition to the Blackwell prize in painting.
Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Margo Chase…
who I once hung out with for a day YEARS AGO…and when researching her… found out that she died in a plane crash while piloting at age 59. SO sad to hear this.
Margo Chase (February 20, 1958 – July 22, 2017) was an American graphic designer known for her eclectic and experimental design style. Chase was prolific – with a career bridging the graphic design field’s transition from the analog to the digital era, working with clients ranging from Selena and Prince to Mattel and Procter & Gamble.
With a portfolio of medical illustrations, Chase found work at a small advertising firm in Long Beach, designing packaging for the Ralph’s grocery store chain. She was soon hired away by Rosebud Books to design a series of tourist guidebooks. During this time, Chase met Laura LaPuma, who would go on to give her her first album cover design job at Warner Brothers Records. As she accumulated more design work, Chase set up an office in her Silverlake home, hiring Nancy Ogami and studio manager Robert Short to assist in servicing clients such as Geffen Records, Virgin Records, and others.
Chase designed logos for Prince’s Lovesexy, as well as his Paisley Park production company. Attracting enough positive attention, she was asked to design the logo – and eventually the packaging – for Madonna’s 1989 album Like a Prayer. This opened the door for other high-profile projects such as Cher’s Love Hurts, the poster campaign for 1992’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and others.
Chase’s work from this period of her career was quite distinct, taking inspiration from a wide variety of sources – calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts, and medieval architecture – leading publications to refer to her as the “Queen of Goth.” Wary of being aesthetically pigeonholed, she took on work for linen manufacturer Matteo. What initially began as a logo and stationary design project morphed into full-blown textile and product design. During this time, Chase expanded her studio – hiring designer Terry Stone to help her launch into motion picture titles, as well as market her typographic work as a separate venture called “Gravy Fonts.” After working with clients across the entertainment industry, Chase decided that she was a print designer at heart and turned her attention to packaging design, stating, “What I like about designing print or packaging is that when the job is finished there is something physical to show for it – it’s timeless. With the broadcast work, once it’s been seen, it’s already old.”
Pack Your Paints (and Wellies): Kenzie…. (And maybe me??…🤞🤞🤞) are Going to Ireland 🌿🎨✨
Posted on July 11, 2025
A 6-Day Creative Escape from Dublin to Killarney!
Kenzie is beyond excited to have the chance to go to Ireland with you! Have you been feeling the need to really unplug, step out of your routine to give yourself some space to explore, get inspired and create?
She has too. And what better way to do that than with a group of like-minded people in one of the most naturally inspiring places on earth: IRELAND.
Come with her on a 6-day creative retreat across Ireland — we’ll travel from Dublin to Killarney, and document our trip in our own personal travel journals.
When: March 16-21, 2026
Where: Dublin → Killarney
Who: You, me, and a small group of kindred spirits
Why: Because you deserve a little adventure
Some trip highlights:
🇮🇪 A walking tour of Dublin
🍺 A Guinness Storehouse visit,
🏰 A visit to the Cashel Castle
🐑 A scenic tour of the Ring of Kerry on its winding path through the countryside
🥃 An Irish Whiskey and cheese tasting
🎨 Creative sketchbook sessions
Space is limited! Snag one of the 6 remaining early bird spots before they run out! (A $100 savings)
Price: $2995 $3095 First 8 spots save $100! Selling fast, only 6 left!
Only 25% down is needed to claim your spot and payment plans are available. Just select ‘pay over time’ at booking and apply to finance your trip.
Reserve your spot — or risk having FOMO.
Let’s make some memories together,
– Kenzie
Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 52
Posted on July 7, 2025
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
Quote of the week…
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainty.”
— Erich Fromm
Inspirational Art of the week: Mud huts in India
In various parts of India, particularly in rural areas, mud huts are often painted with intricate and colorful designs. These murals, often found in tribal communities, are a form of traditional art that reflects cultural identity and beliefs. The materials used for the huts and the paintings are typically natural and locally sourced. The paintings are created using natural pigments derived from minerals, plants, and other organic materials.
Hand lettering artist of the week: Yunizar
b. 1971, Talawi, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Lives and works in Indonesia
Yunizar spent his formative years at the Indonesian Institute of Arts in Yogyakarta – a school of national pride in the heart of progressive art-making in Indonesia. Yunizar’s training reveals itself in his sophisticated expressive style, articulated through a playful composition and subtle palette. Executed primarily in acrylic and pencil, his works stand out in terms of texture, colour, brushwork and rhythm. A restrained palette of cool colours – yellows, browns and greens- is deliberately dirtied and smudged in his working and reworking of the canvas. The result is a highly tactile work that entices the viewer to feel the piece.
Coretan, Yunizar’s solo exhibition at the National University of Singapore Museum in 2008 became the cornerstone of the artist’s signature style. The repetition and technique in scribbling marks a desire for meaning to be limitless in perspective. The spontaneous lines are a reflection of the artist’s inhibition with the constricting form both text and image sometimes takes. The works are composed of illegible scribbling in lines across the canvas, appearing as fragments of text that struggle to find form or intelligent representation. Working with limited colour, mostly monochromatic, his works reveal a play of lines and textures coming together to create clear rhythms and strong composition. The simplicity of visual elements within his works, according to Yunizar, is the result of a personal aesthetic judgment. He seeks beauty, especially in the trivial and in what is deemed by all else as useless and unimportant. To capture intuition and impulse, that is the great aim of the artist.
Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 51
Posted on June 30, 2025
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
Quote of the week…
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
— Tibetan Proverb
Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Margaret Kilgallen
Margaret Leisha Kilgallen (October 28, 1967 – June 26, 2001) was a San Francisco Bay Area artist who combined graffiti art, painting, and installation art. Though a contemporary artist, her work showed a strong influence from folk art. She was considered a central figure in the Bay Area Mission School art movement.
Inspirational Artist of the week: Donald Baechler
Donald Baechler (b. 1956 – d. 2022) emerged in the 1980s as part of New York City’s East Village art scene alongside such luminaries as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Baechler studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, then Cooper Union in New York City. To briefly escape New York of the late ’70s, he took up an invitation from German exchange students to visit their homeland, where he then spent much of 1978 and ’79 studying at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. There Baechler witnessed neo-expressionism taking hold in what became loosely known as the Neue Wilde movement, which featured German painters disinterested in the dominant forms of conceptualism and minimalism.
Returning to the United States, Baechler honed his version of graphic, neo-expressive painting paired with flashes of Pop Art, American folk art, and children’s drawings. With Baechler back in New York, the early ’80s saw his first major solo shows in New York and abroad as he continued to explore brightly colored and thickly outlined foreground images—often flowers, faces, skulls, animals, and ice cream cones—painted over heavily textured collages sourced from scattered ephemera. Baechler cited Giotto, Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Kosuth, and especially Cy Twombly as major influences.
Furthering what he called his “education in public,” Baechler eventually began showing playful bronze statues of flowerpots and large-scale figures in stride. Overpainting, erasure, and intense editing—not to mention a lighthearted sense of humor—remained key to his process thoughout his career. “I’m an abstract artist before anything else,” he has said. “For me, it’s always been more about line, form, balance, and the edge of the canvas—all these silly formalist concerns—than it has been about subject matter or narrative or politics.”
Four Findings for Curious Creatives-Issue 163
Posted on June 27, 2025
Kelly Boesch
LOVE how this artist is playing with AI. Whacky and surreal. Intriguing and playful animations!!
Gabriela Serrats
I ADORE dimensional work! The beautifully layered neutral works by this artist really speak to me. Simple and lovely explorations of shape.
Fulton Lee Music
Wow… I LOVE this idea!!! Creation of music between total strangers. On the spot. Blown away by what happens!!!
Po Paris
I am swooning over the Nathalie Lété tufted pieces by this Parisian company. The colors… the textures… YUM!!!
Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 50
Posted on June 23, 2025
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
Quote of the week…
“Kindness isn’t a weakness — it is a very potent strength.”
-Steve Carrell
Inspirational artist of the week: Isobel Harvey
Isobel Harvey is a London-based artist who works across multiple mediums, including paintings, textiles and ceramics.
Isobel Harvey grew up in a house full of books about birds and bird-related artworks. The sculptures her dad made were mostly modelled on birds and binoculars, and he’d always point out different species when they went on walks.With both her parents immersed in art and nature, Isobel’s creative journey and focus were shaped early on. Now a full-time painter, her work heavily features abstract bird motifs alongside other animals, expressed in striking and vibrant shades. “Birds and fish lend themselves nicely to being interpreted because they’re so colour and pattern-heavy in their thousands of species.”
In addition to her rich use of colour, there is also a sense of texture across Isobel’s work which brings her subjects to life. A lot of her ideas come from constructing and deconstructing a painting. When it doesn’t go to plan, she simply paints over what she has done. And that creates tactile layers. Her aim for her paintings is for them to be very texture-heavy.Though the process is largely intuitive, she credits folk art and ancient Egyptian paintings as inspiration for her forms.
Handlettering inspiration of the week: Tony Fitzpatrick
Tony Fitzpatrick is a Chicago-based artist best known for his multimedia collages, printmaking, paintings, and drawings. Fitzpatrick’s work are inspired by Chicago street culture, cities he has traveled to, children’s books, tattoo designs, and folk art. Fitzpatrick has authored or illustrated eight books of art and poetry, and, for the last two years has written a column for the Newcity. Fitzpatrick’s art appears in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. The Neville Brothers’ album Yellow Moon and the Steve Earle’s albums El Corazon and The Revolution Starts Now also feature Fitzpatrick’s art. In 1992, Fitzpatrick opened a Chicago-based printmaking studio, Big Cat Press, which exists today as the artist exhibition space Firecats Projects. Before making a living as an artist, Fitzpatrick worked as a radio host, bartender, boxer, construction worker, and film and stage actor.
Four Findings for Curious Creatives-Issue 162
Posted on June 20, 2025
Only 5 Spots left for Mexico City next Feb. 26 – Mar. 1
Want to join me?? We get to visit the Frida Kahlo museum and we will learn techniques for travel journaling as we explore together.
Outta Puff Daddys
LOVING this idea… getting together to dance!!! These men created this tribe for mental health purposes. They are so fun to watch..YES!!! JOY!!!
I can’t afford this but maybe she can
This feed curates lots of really interesting images and work from unique creators. And it is chock full of color! My fav.
Kandy Lopez
Oh my gosh… the way this artist created portraits out of yarn… blows my mind. Her work is incredibly tactile and colorful. I’m IN LOVE!
Words and Wildflowers Creative Prompts – Issue 49
Posted on June 16, 2025
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
Quote of the week…
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can.”
– Neil Gaiman
Inspirational Artist of the week: Mark Hearld
Born 1974, based in York, Mark Hearld is endlessly inspired by nature, creating exuberant, joyful and vibrant collages. He is an artist and designer whose distinctive style is influenced by mid-twentieth-century neo-romanticism, the gaiety of 1930s modernism and British folk art. Mark Hearld is inspired by artists such as Eric Ravilious, John Piper and Edward Bawden.
Mark Hearld has an unbridled passion for making, and his extraordinary creativity leads to collaborative projects with artists and traditional craft makers across multiple disciplines.
Collage is central to Mark Hearld’s artistic output, not only as a medium but as a process that is firmly rooted in twentieth-century art. Collage was a technique used by Matisse, Picasso and John Piper to introduce abstraction into their images. Mark similarly uses this means of abstraction, combined with his traditional academic training and careful observation, to inform his creativity.
Mark Hearld studied Illustration at Glasgow School of Art before completing an MA in Natural History Illustration at the Royal College of Art. Mark works across a number of mediums, producing limited-edition lithographic and linocut prints, unique paintings, and hand-painted ceramics, as well as collage. His work is now exhibited all over the UK, including several solo exhibitions, most notably with Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Mark Hearld is in demand as a curator of exhibitions and collections, including The British Folk Art Collection at Compton Verney in Warwickshire, for which he produced new work in response to the collection.
Hand lettering artist of the week: David Shillinglaw
David Shillinglaw is a London-based British artist. A jack-of-all-trades, he has worked as a theatre set designer, illustrated album cover designs and created installations all around the world. From street to studio, from paintings on canvas to large-scale murals, from hand made books to collages on wood, Shillinglaw has developed an extremely broad portfolio of art works.
The bulk of Shillinglaw’s work consists of colourful, folk-inspired human faces. Visually formed by hundreds of smaller shapes and other body parts they are reminiscent of more friendly and subtle pop art works. Humanizing his art, Shillinglaw attempts to put the thoughts running through his head into wild pieces of colour and shape adding the perceptual concern of his journey as a man with his own sense of humour. In the end all his work is simply about showing different sides of people and human nature, both the civilized and monstrous, stupid and articulate. A graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Shillinglaw has gone on to exhibit his work around the globe as part of collaboration and solo shows.
Lori Siebert & Co. 