Deborah Velásquez: Blog Hop

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

This is "Where Art and Beauty Meet Lifestyle"©

Please do not use anything without permission or without making note of the origin on your blog or website.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Let's Fly Blog Hop...Have a visit!

Hello and welcome to the Let's Fly Blog Hop.

Our Theme is Let's Fly and we will be using Emerald the 2013 Pantone color of the year in our mini collection.You are probably stopping in from Lesley Todd's lovely blog, Finch Five.

I hope you enjoyed her beautiful, aviation and travel inspired designs. If you want to start at the beginning of the hop please visit Gill Eggleston's blog called Pattern Addict.

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 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.

Bird sketches were at the start of the process, it was the lined bird drawings that inspired the initial carved block for the prints I planed to make.

Carving and testing.

Putting the blocks to the test. The lines are solid, strong and graphic. I had these test sheets out while I made more sketches and carved more blocks. I ended up with four pieces to work with. It inspired me and I was able to play with different ideas and layout.

Instead of printing the design with ink on paper i scanned my motifs into the computer to finalize my patterns.

Color Inspiration

I pulled out color chips. novelty papers and a a watercolor piece of mine in order to find colors that sat well with Emerald Green. Here are some sophisticated and fun combinations

I played with.