Rooted in Love

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Hi Everyone,
As a lettering artist I always look for unique ways to incorporate inspiring words into my art. Recently I’ve been working on a series of flowers and trees that ‘grow’ from a word. I’m not sure what to call them, and was hoping for suggestions… Here are three examples of the technique.

The piece above is a combination of watercolor and digital color. Except for adding the logo, the two pieces below are unretouched.


I’d welcome suggestions on what to call this technique– and would appreciate any ideas you have. If I pick the name you suggest I’ll send you a Zenspirations(R) print and a signed book as a thank you. You can either leave a comment, or e-mail me at [email protected].

Stay Zenspired,

Joanne

54 thoughts on “Rooted in Love”

  3. Hi Joanne, I love your latest "Zenspirations". My suggestion for this style is "Zenflourish".

  4. Love the flowing of the letters, how they just emerge from the branches. "Spirit Letters!" Very coo! And fun to think of names that might work.

  7. At first I thought "root words" would be appropriate for the well, root type words.
    I am leaning more toward "WORDTRAILS" since they seem to be in the middle of a trail of a line going either way.

  8. Zenroots would be to me obvious. But maybe breakaway from the zen, maybe wordZ. love them, so much more inspiration.
    Melinda

  9. These are lovely. Thinking about them being botanical in nature. How about Bozangles or botangles. C x

  10. Thinking out loud…. instead of photosynthesis – how about lettersynthesis or wordsynthesis or calligriphicsynthesis or callisynthesis… I remember coming home that day from school feeling so smart b/c I had learned all about photosynthesis and was so very proud of that big long word and what it meant!!!! You developed this technique – so I feel as though you invented this synthesis as well!!!!!

  11. I love your art – it's very zenspiritual! My ideas are RootZ or Exprezzion!

    Take care, Donna

  12. I was tossing a few things around . . .
    Zenspirational-Rootz,
    Rootz-of-Sentiment,
    SpiritRootz,
    SentimentRootz

    I don't know, but they're really beautiful!!!
    Big Hugs!!
    Reeah

  13. Love the concept and the art!

    RootSpirational

    Seeds of Zenspiration

    Grounded Inspiration

    Roots of Nourishment

  14. I like Barbara's "Seeds of Zenspiration" or "Seeds of Inspiration".

    My individual thought is to call it "Rooted in Love" (your original words)

  17. What a great ideas….now come up with something different…….
    how about
    ZenseedZ
    SeedZ
    WordZ
    SeedwordZ
    BotangleZ
    LetterseedZ
    LetterZ
    SeedlingZ
    Just blurring some thoughts………

    creative regards,
    Miranda

  18. They are beautiful….how about "word blossoms" or "word blooms" or "zen-blooms" or "zen-blossoms"
    Julianne

  21. wordz-zenspirationals! You and your art are such an inspiration to me and to so many…..

  22. Your art reminds me of the way that Illuminated manuscripts incorporated letters/words and imagery/art. In keeping with your other names, how about Zenluminations?

  23. I also use that technique sometimes and I really love it! & for the name; how about Growing words?
    I wish you lots of inspiration! ♥

  27. heartword.

    I'm a bit of a word nerd, so I checked wiki for root word and word stem. Found this instead: lemma
    "…In English, for example, run, runs, ran and running are forms of the same lexeme, with run as the lemma…The process of determining the lemma for a given word is called lemmatisation."

    Then I saw "A headword, head word, lemma, or sometimes catchword is the word under which a set of related dictionary or encyclopaedia entries appear. " But your words come more from the heart, so heartword it is.

    catchword

  28. Once again, your work is awe-inspiring! I love this idea and your art is in perfect harmony w/the concept.

    Many words considered. Here is my pitch: Plant life -like people- not only grow, they have beginnings. As this is a renaissance technique…my contribution is "ORIZENS," based on the word "Origins." The longer version: "ORIZEN-SPIRATIONS"

    You like..? 🙂

  33. Fruits of the earth.
    Harvests of peace.
    Grateful enjoyment of the earth.
    Gifts that grow.
    Beautiful bounty.

  41. "Zenflourishments": Bold or extravagantly written words or phrases, written in the shoots, stems, and/or twigs of an illustrated plant. The words or phrases are chosen to encourage confidence, offer support and hope, and to stimulate a continued development of an activity, state or belief.
    This definition derived from combining the words: flourish and encouragement
    Flourish (verb): Grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a particularly favorable environment.
    1 (noun): A bold or extravagant gesture or action, made especially to attract the attention of others.
    2 (noun): An ornamental flowing curve in handwriting
    Encouragement (noun): The action of giving someone support, confidence or hope; persuasion to do or to continue something; the act of trying to stimulate the development of an activity, state or belief.

    I also really like "zensprouts"!

  43. I love your letter art. I have most of your stamps. They are beautiful. How about calling them Florations

  45. Great ideas!! Can't do better…. of the words already coined my personal favorite is Zenflourish, but want also to add Bloomspiration (don't think I've seen that word mentioned but if it's a duplicate congrats to the other person who thought of it first 😉

    ~Susan

  46. My first thought would be "WordBlooms" because the words come first and then bloom into the work of art. LOVE your artwork!! So inspiring!! XO

  47. Thank you everyone for the wonderful suggestions! I'm going to try lettering a few of my favorites, and will share them with the group.

    Stay Zenspired,
    Joanne

  48. Root wordZ
    NatureZ bounty
    NatureZ reflectionZ
    Blossoming hope(s)
    Hope springs(z)
    Nurturing wordZ
    WordZsmith
    H'artZpirations

    I LOVE bloomers, though you could spell it BloomerZ.
    I also really like Outgrowths and Botangles(ending with a Z?).

    You certainly have a lot of creative friends!!!

  51. Grounding/ "Seedling" / Sowing
    It gives a deeper meaning to all the words you choose in your art pieces. You inspire us to reflect on all the beauty that surrounds us everyday. I love what you do.

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