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…

“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.