Deborah Velásquez: stems

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Monday, November 12, 2012

Art Every Day Twelve • Small Art

I am participating in Art Everyday Month. I have joined a group of creative people committing themselves to more creativity for the month of November.

Day Twelve of Making Art Every Day! I am getting ready for two shows, so I am in production mode. I have made some small art which I call pull outs of my main print designs. I have a few rules I follow when it comes to art and having affordable art at a smaller price point, along with the pricier items is one of them and good business. It is also a great way to share your work. My other belief is giving away some art every now again, be it to friends or as a donation to a cause. This reminds me of one of my favorite past posts about Lessons I Learned in Art School. You can read it here. It is hard just to pick one lesson to share but one of the best ones was about art/design"If it doesn't work in black and white, color will not fix it".

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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Art Every Day Eleven • Seed Pod Stem Print

I am participating in Art Everyday Month. I have joined a group of creative people committing themselves to more creativity for the month of November.

Day Eleven of Making Art Every Day! As promised here are some fun prints which were

inspired by floral stems I had sketched yesterday. I played with spacing for interest some imprints of the seed pod stems.

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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Art Every Day Ten • The Carving Tools Keep Calling

I am participating in Art Everyday Month. I have joined a group of creative people committing themselves to more creativity for the month of November.

Day Ten of Making Art Every Day! Making more designs with my print blocks.

Inspired by floral stems I had sketched.

Test Print
I want to tweak this a bit and it needs more clean up. I make test prints to show where some uncut raised bits outside of design need to carved down some more. See you tomorrow with my final design and a fun print.

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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Design Evolution

The evolution of a design or a piece of art works differently for every artist.

More often than not this is how it works for me.

Warm up exercises in a small sketchbook and loose pieces of paper which I will later put in my larger sketchbooks.

Old and new sketches laid out on my desk. I always go to my history, the archives of the sketchbook stash to pull inspiration. What I didn't use before may be relevent now.
I painted small scraps of paper for color play. All pieces go on a temporary inspiration board.
I am forever moving and taping and moving and taping.
Then the light bulb goes off and voilà.
How do you begin your masterpiece?
What does your desk look like?

Layout I like and then the color play!

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