Deborah Velásquez: Emerald green

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.