Posted on May 5, 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:
Hope you will create with us and post your work at #wordsandwildflowers2024 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy
Quote of the week…
“Your heart knows the way, run in that direction.”
-Rumi
Inspirational Artist of the week… Beatriz Milhazes
Beatriz Milhazes (born 1960) is a Brazilian artist. She is known for her work juxtaposing Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist painting. Milhazes is a Brazilian-born collage artist and painter known for her large-scale works and vibrant colors. She has been called “Brazil’s most successful contemporary painter.”
Beatriz Milhazes’s practice includes painting, drawing and collage. Characterized by vibrant colours, optical movement and energetic visual cadences, her abstract work fuses a diverse repertoire of images and forms, combining elements from her native Brazilian context with European abstraction.
As a painter, Beatriz Milhazes uses a unique transfer technique, first painting on plastic sheets before peeling away the dried shapes and collaging them onto the canvas. When she peels the plastic away, the resulting image is superimposed onto the canvas. For these paintings, as well as her collages, prints, and installations, Milhazes draws on a wide range of aesthetic traditions, including folk and decorative art, European modernism, and Antropofagia, a movement founded in the late 1920s that proposed “cannibalizing” the supposedly high-minded European traditions to create a distinctly Brazilian Culture.




Handlettering inspiration of the week… Stefani Pedruzzi
Italian lettering artist Stefano Pedruzzi was born in Bergamo, and he used the walls of his hometown as canvases for his early artistic experiments.
Beginning with graffiti at 13, he quickly learned valuable lessons in design, proportion, and the importance of manual skill. After earning a degree in Communication Design from the Politecnico di Milano, Stefano continued to explore and experiment with letters, applying his art across a wide range of surfaces and contexts, from hand lettering to the digital world and even skin, with the art of tattooing.
He has recently published a book, Don’t Underestimate the Power of Letters, which is the culmination of his artistic journey. The book serves as an indispensable guide for anyone fascinated by the world of lettering.






Posted on March 17, 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:
Hope you will create with us and post your work at #wordsandwildflowers2024 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy
Quote of the week…
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
-Christian Dior
Inspirational Artist of the week… Rithika Merchant
Rithika Merchant is a visual artist from Bombay (Mumbai), India. Her work explores both comparative mythology as well as science and speculative fiction, featuring creatures and symbolism that are part of her personal visual vocabulary. She creates bodies of work that visually link to our collective past as well as imagine possible new worlds which we may come to inhabit.
Nature plays a pivotal role in her work and is emphasized by the use of organic shapes and non-saturated colours. Her paintings and collages are made using a combination of watercolour and cut paper elements, drawing on 17th century botanical prints and folk art.
Merchant received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York.
Her work has been written about in Art Asia Pacific, Art India, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Verve Magazine, The Hindu, The Indian Express, Hyperallergic, Architectural Digest,and others.






Hand lettering artist of the week: Richard Faust
Ohio artist Richard Faust gained his BFA degree from The Columbus College of Art and Design, and later on started to work as an illustrator in American Greetings Design Studio where he has been creating fun designs for over thirteen years.
His work mostly starts off as doodles in his journal. He uses unique patterns in his work that he hand-draws and prints after finishing them digitally. His work is influenced by mid-century oddities that he comes across on his trips to vintage stores and local flea markets. His illustrations are filled with floral designs, retro style and bold colors that bring joy to the viewer. His clients include Target, Wall Street Journal, Papyrus, American Greetings, Family Circle Magazine and more.




