Deborah Velásquez: Abstract

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Thursday, February 6, 2014

Vote • West Elm + Minted Challenge

I am excited to share that I am in the West Elm + Minted Art Challenge.
I would love your vote!

The winning prints will be sold in West Elm stores and through Minted's website.

Click here to see my main page of submissions, you must rate the designs to count as a vote. You may have to set up a Minted account if you do not have one.
Very easy to do...Just an email address and a password
Here are a few samples of the Art Prints in the Challenge:

Blue and Black Tree

Feather Solo

You can Click on Pages below to see and vote on submissions.

Page 21 two pieces bottom right
Page 22 Full page
Page 23 Full page


you must click on artwork and rate the design and that counts as a vote.

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Swimming Blue Pods

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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Brushes and Ink to Get Centered

Wow! After five intense and amazing weeks taking Lilla Roger's e-course, Make Art That Sells and then participating in The Global Talent Search competition last week, I must admit I am quite beat creatively. In order to decompress I painted without a plan. I love these exercises with just ink and paper, they make magic. I played with my favorite brushes and acrylic ink and found my "flow".
I went back to basics with black and white two favorites in my color palette!

The two sections I started painting from.

My final piece. So happy with this painting.

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Friday, March 29, 2013

Ink, Gouache and Pencil Play

On the table today, well one of the things....I still have a blue floral in the works which I started last week and still working on. This circle painting was definitely a diversion, a fun diversion. Playing with my favorite mix of brushes and using ink, pencil and gouache.

The circle is my icon. When I paint, it is circular and confident in motion. When the brush is on the paper there is no hesitation.

I am very much attracted to the letters e and o.

What defines your style, your artistic hand?

Is there an icon or a symbol that comes up in your work either consciously or subconsciously?

What shows up in your work all the time?

Possibly it is:

Birds

Water

Trees

Color

Animals

Symbols

Circles

People

Shapes

Clouds

Nature

Time

And so on…

When you doodle, draw or put inspiration in your sketchbook.

What is your icon?

Look back at your older works. Interesting isn't it?

Here is an example of an older work which I blogged about back in September 2011 in a post called Hard to Part With , which talked about letting go of of our art and how it it is very difficult at times.

Funny to see the similarities.
The consistency in style is there and creatively that is a good thing.
I sold this Acrylic piece six years ago!