Deborah Velásquez: January 2014

Friday, January 31, 2014

Word Paths • You

Played with words today. This is how most Fridays usually go in the studio.

Determination, Courage and Inspiration….Have a look.

Some color in the background for a change.

My mess in the studio today. Lots of sketch paper to make the words happen on a page.

Stacks of painted words in order to get "flow".

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Everyone has a word path. One word leads to another.

Word Paths have been a Friday feature showcasing possibilities in written words, creative process and artistic pieces from the beginning of my blog You can go here, to my first post on this project and see how it all started.

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Here is My Word Path for Today

This ended up the winner, loved how the words sat together in relation to each other.

Happy Weekend • Choose to Inspire • Enjoy the Language of Words

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

On my Desk… Birds, Tear Drops and Flowers

On my desk…..

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Friday, January 24, 2014

Word Path, a Repost • History Revisited

Today's Post is a re-post from Last January. I was going through some work and this Word Path piece kept coming up and it is favorite because it says something with a lot of truth in it. I do love how the past opens the door for new things to happen. Enjoy.

I wanted to use my words with a background treatment today. I have chosen Yellow Pods which I had painted this past August, you can find it here.

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Everyone has a word path. One word leads to another.

Word Paths have been a Friday feature showcasing possibilities in written words, creative process and artistic pieces from the beginning of my blog. You can go here, to my first post on this project and see how it all started. All Word Paths contain original copy.

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My Word Path for Today

Today's Word Path is for RB...What you talked about gifted me a Word path, Thank You.

Many Word Paths have been inspired by conversations or just happenings in everyday life that I happen to observe. Many times there is "coffee" involved and I can say that this time was one of those times. A few days ago I was in a conversation with friends and in the back and forth I landed on this Word Path. I didn't even realize it until a friend said, "Deb, I think you have your Word Path for Friday..." Thanks to my friend who finds messages everyday.

Your history, your journey, your detours, your losses, your breakups, your successes, your gains... you get what I mean, they are your story. It all comes together in who you are today and how cool is that! What was funny during that conversation is that one of the girls brought up my "All my Yesterdays..." Word Path quotes from the past. We were all part of each other's history that day.

Our past offers such great foundations to stand on as we move forward to many a new day.

We take the past, remix it and re-imagine it. We collect the past and create anew.

How interesting is that!

Happy Weekend • Make Some History

Enjoy the Language of Words

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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Tropical Fusion Blog Hop….Have a visit

Hello and welcome to the Tropical Fusion BlogHop.

Over 40 designers are designing within a tropical theme and are incorporating Radiant Orchid, the 2014 Pantone color of the year in their mini collection.
The hop will run for 4 days.

You are probably stopping in from Jolene Heckman's lovely blog.

If you want to start at the beginning of the hop please visit Mary Tanana's blog called Groovity.

My name is Deborah Velásquez. I am an artist-designer with a passion for creating art.
I work both traditionally and digitally.
I have a love for painting, printmaking and silk screening.

The mix of design, words and crafts light me up. Some of my favorite things are, coffee, magazines, art books, a sharpie and a sketchbook.

I am a licensed artist with The World Art Group and I have Just been named the First place winner of The Carpet Vista 2013 Competition out of Malmö, Sweden, My rug designs will be available late January 2014

Here is the start of my design process after a bit of research.
Some sketching and some motif painting.

I then prepare my blocks by cutting out my design. I do a few test prints in order to check my line work.

I love the surprise of relief printing .

I like to mix printing and painting in the same piece of work.

Rainforest Word Portrait by Velásquez ©2014

I make Word Art and I thought it might be nice to include this

Word Portrait of the Rainforest in as a coordinate.

Thank you for stopping by.

You can now hop over to Jennifer Rogers blog and see how she was inspired by the Tropical theme and Radiant Orchid.

To make navigating the posts a bit easier……….

First Blog: Mary Tanana
Previous Blog: Jolene Heckman

Next Blog: Jennifer Rogers

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