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…

“Art allows us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

— Thomas Merton

Inspiration of the week: Rachel Ruysch

Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750) was a renowned Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in floral still lifes. Spanning a remarkable six decades, her career yielded over 250 highly sought-after paintings. Because her intricate, vibrant compositions fetched prices that often exceeded those of Rembrandt, she is recognized as the best-documented female artist of her era.Born in The Hague on June 3, 1664, Ruysch grew up in Amsterdam surrounded by the wonders of science and art. Her father, Frederik Ruysch, was a celebrated professor of botany and anatomy who curated an extensive collection of rare biological specimens. This scholarly environment gave her unparalleled access to exotic plants and insects, teaching her to observe nature with scientific accuracy. Her mother, Maria Post, was the daughter of the renowned Dutch architect Pieter Post. At age 15, Ruysch began her formal artistic apprenticeship under Willem van Aelst, Amsterdam’s premier still-life painter. Under his tutelage, she mastered lighting, luminous textures, and the delicate composition of silken flora and forest floor flora.

Hand lettering inspiration of the week: The Detroit School of Lettering

A new friend just shared these super cool booklets while I was teaching a retreat. Such great inspiration!!

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…

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one!”

— Dolly Parton

Inspiration of the week: Celia Birtwell

Celia Birtwell, CBE (born 1941), is a British textile designer and fashion designer, known for her distinctive bold, romantic and feminine designs, which are influenced by Picasso and Matisse, and the classical world. She was well known for her prints which epitomised the 1960s/70s. Until the arrival of Vivienne Westwood, Birtwell’s textile designs dominated the London fashion industry.

Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Stacy Milrany

Stacy Milrany is a Seattle-based visual artist, writer and creative director with a pop-art style inspired by observations of daily life and the human experience.

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 world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.”

— Neil Gaiman

Inspiration of the week: Boddington’s Seed packs

Boddington’s Seed Packs refer to the beautifully designed, Art Nouveau-style vintage garden seed and bulb catalogs produced by Arthur T. Boddington in New York during the early 1900s. Rather than functional gardening supplies, these are now highly sought-after collectible art prints and framed wall decor.

History of the Boddington Brand

Arthur T. Boddington was a prominent 20th-century seed merchant based in New York, famed for his “Quality Seeds, Bulbs, and Requisites”. Between 1906 and 1913, his firm produced mail-order catalogs and packaging decorated with intricate, Art Nouveau botanical illustrations of sweet peas, poppies, and irises. Today, these catalogs are preserved as agricultural and historical treasures.

Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Asemic Writing

Asemic writing is an open, wordless form of mark-making that resembles handwriting but contains no literal, semantic meaning. Fusing elements of text and abstract art, it relies on the viewer’s intuition and the visual rhythm of the marks to evoke emotion, allowing interpretation to bypass traditional language barriers.

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…

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

— Mother Teresa

Inspiration of the week: Liberty of London

Liberty of London is an iconic, luxury British department store and textile brand known for its artsy, avant-garde aesthetic and signature floral prints. Founded in 1875 by Arthur Lasenby Liberty, the brand originally championed exotic Eastern goods and ultimately revolutionized 19th-century interior design and fashion. History and Origins

• The Founder: Arthur Lasenby Liberty (1843–1917) opened the first store on Regent Street in 1875 with a £2,000 loan.
• The “Eastern Bazaar”: The shop found early success by importing vibrant Japanese and Oriental fabrics, ornaments, and objets d’art. Arthur Liberty’s appreciation for exotic designs directly fueled the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements.
• The Flagship Building: The iconic mock-Tudor department store on Great Marlborough Street was opened in 1924. The structure is historically built from the timbers of two decommissioned Royal Navy warships: the HMS Impregnable and HMS Hindustan.

Iconic Fabrics and Design

In-House Studio: Liberty has its own dedicated design studio in London that has been creating, hand-drawing, and reworking hundreds of textile designs since the 19th century.

Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Wendy Solganik

Wendy Solganik, aka Willa Wanders, is a lifelong artist and crafter, currently working in handmade books, mixed media art, collage, hand lettering and watercolor. From production wheel pottery to scrapbooking to knitting and so many more passions, Wendy always dives deep to master a craft. After a fifteen year stint as the co-owner of Luscious Verde Cards, a successful, award-winning, custom invitation manufacturing company, you can find Wendy at home in her art studio. Crafting and creating online art class experiences for students all over the world is her current passion.

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…

“If you are not playful you are not alive.”

— David Hockney

Inspiration of the week: David Hockney

David Hockney (1937–2026) was an influential English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and photographer. A leading figure in the 1960s Pop Art movement, he was celebrated for his vibrant Los Angeles swimming pool paintings, pioneering photo-collages, and brilliant late-career landscapes capturing the shifting seasons of Yorkshire and Normandy via modern technology like the iPad.

Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Elyse Pignolet

Born in Oakland, CA, Elyse Pignolet is an American with Filipino heritage, living and working in Los Angeles. She attended California State University, San Francisco, studying Fine Arts. In 2001 she lived in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, studying arts and Spanish language. She completed her BFA degree in ceramics at CSU Long Beach in 2007. Her studies included an intensive ceramics tour through Mainland China, and she also attended the International Ceramics Biennale in Korea. She was awarded a CSU Long Beach Travel Scholarship for Art, and traveled to Lisbon, Portugal to study traditional tile murals. Pignolet was awarded a fellowship to Ballinglen Arts Center, Ireland. She has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, and South America.

Pignolet works primarily in ceramics and her work has been inspired by and dealt with various themes including political and social issues, the dialectic between feminism and misogyny, inequality, and cultural stereotypes. Exploring the boundaries between ceramics, painting and sculpture, Pignolet attempts to place the permanence and traditions of ceramics with the fleeting and transitory nature of the contemporary 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 #wordsandwildflowers2026 and tag @lorisiebert.studio and @snippetsofwhimsy

Quote of the week…

“Within every person, there is a child. That child is filled with wonder, creativity, and the belief that anything is possible.”

— Catia Hernandez Holm

Inspiration of the week: Kitty McCall (Catherine Nice)

Kitty McCall is a UK-born and based interiors and accessories brand. Textile designer, Catherine Nice, launched the Kitty McCall label in late 2010 to create artworks, textiles, and wallpapers inspired by imagined landscapes, botanicals, and bold color palettes. Before that, she had a successful career as a Fashion & Homewares print designer. Her designs have been used internationally by many renowned brands including Etro, Thakoon, Descamps and Anthropologie. Colour is her signature aesthetic. Her collections reflect her interest in abstraction and asymmetry often inspired by artistic movements.

Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Lewis Rossignol

Lewis Rossignol is a South Portland based visual artist. After many years working blue-collar jobs, at 37 years old he decided to go back to art school. Propelled by his distinctive style, Lewis has been able to sustain a career selling his original work as well as taking on high profile commissions for artists like Drew Taggart of The Chainsmokers and Tyler the Creator. Lewis is open about how creative endeavors like drawing is one of the only remedies he’s found for his condition, Tourette’s Syndrome.

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…

“Creativity in this world is the key to survival.”

— Jack Black in A Minecraft Movie

Inspiration of the week: Fujiwo Ishimoto

Fujiwo Ishimoto (b. 1941) is a Japan-born ceramic artist and textile designer, best known for the patterns he created for Marimekko. Ishimoto first encountered Maija Isola’s designs in Tokyo in the 1960s, and they made such a strong impression on him that he decided to travel to Finland to learn more about Marimekko and Finnish design. He began working at Marimekko in 1974. As a ceramic artist, he started at the Arabia Art Department in 1989.

Ishimoto draws inspiration from the surrounding nature and its phenomena. His restrained visual language is paired with lively surface textures and rich ornamentation. He has received numerous awards, including the Finnish State Award for Industrial Art, the Kaj Franck Design Prize, and Honorable mentions at the Finland Designs exhibition in 1983, 1989 and 1993. In 2011, he was awarded the Pro Finlandia Medal. His ceramic and textile works have been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions, and he has also designed sets and costumes for opera productions.

Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Lynn Whipple

Peter Bankov is a man of many things. Founder and creative director of Design Depot — one of the leading design studios in Russia — that’s Bankov. Publisher and editor-in-chief of [Kak) — the first Russian magazine on graphic design — this is him as well. Winner of numerous awards in Italy, US, and Russia — that is also him. Artist whose art is in private collections and museums in the USA, Germany, Netherlands, France, and Finland — Bankov again.

He is all those things and more, but most of all Peter Bankov is the man of the poster. He is a true proponent of the art. He is almost addicted to posters. So much so that for the last 9 years, he has been keeping a creative diary of sorts — he literally makes a poster a day. This ever growing collection of artworks has now exploded into a treasure trove of over 1000 posters.

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…

“Be kind to people. Not because they’re nice, but because you are.”

— Stephen Colbert

Inspiration of the week: Fragonard

The Perfumery: Parfumerie Fragonard (Est. 1926)The perfume house was founded in Grasse, France. The company was named to honor the town’s most famous artistic son, celebrating both the region’s historical elegance and the art of fragrance. 

Modern Operations: Today, Maison Fragonard is run by three great-granddaughters of the founder (Agnès, Françoise, and Anne Costa). The company operates three factories, numerous boutiques, and multiple museums, and continues to produce high-quality fragrances, soaps, and cosmetics using traditional Provençal methods.

Founding: In 1926, a former Parisian notary named Eugène Fuchs bought an 18th-century tannery in Grasse and established his own perfumery. His vision was to pioneer direct sales to the tourists who were flocking to the French Riviera.

Expansion & Museums: Under Fuchs’s grandson, Jean-François Costa, the company expanded by opening locations in Èze and Paris. An avid art collector, Costa also launched several museums dedicated to perfume, clothing, and the painter Fragonard himself.

Hand lettering inspiration of the week: Peter Bankov

Peter Bankov is a man of many things. Founder and creative director of Design Depot — one of the leading design studios in Russia — that’s Bankov. Publisher and editor-in-chief of [Kak) — the first Russian magazine on graphic design — this is him as well. Winner of numerous awards in Italy, US, and Russia — that is also him. Artist whose art is in private collections and museums in the USA, Germany, Netherlands, France, and Finland — Bankov again.

He is all those things and more, but most of all Peter Bankov is the man of the poster. He is a true proponent of the art. He is almost addicted to posters. So much so that for the last 9 years, he has been keeping a creative diary of sorts — he literally makes a poster a day. This ever growing collection of artworks has now exploded into a treasure trove of over 1000 posters.