Deborah Velásquez

Friday, December 9, 2011

Put The Kettle On

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

Word Paths, a Friday feature showcasing possibilities in written words, creative process and artistic pieces.

My goal is to present three to five words or three to five lines.

I may go to seven words or seven lines but probably not often, only if needed.

I plan to work the Word Paths out artistically and process them to share with you here.

You can go here, to my first post on this project and see how it all started.

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When you walk into a friend's home and they ask "shall I put the kettle on?" you now it is time for tea. Love the ritual, the break in the day, the pause as I like to say, that bit of chat. We should pause in our moments much more often. I am a coffee girl through and through but drinking tea became a habit when I lived in England. I still enjoy a cuppa, I keep PG tips in my house. I recently created a print which reads, "Coffee is always a good idea" and I dedicated a post to it here. I felt the need to honor tea and tea drinkers. So, here it is! This print is dedicated to my friends in the UK and to my friends from the UK that reside here in the US.

Here is my word path for today

Happy Weekend • Enjoy a Cuppa • Enjoy the Language of Words

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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Happy Birthday

My husband and two sons started the morning with breakfast and gifts in celebration of my birthday. Many thanks to them for making my day special. Love you! All my gifts were wrapped in paper with words printed on them, they know my love of words runs deep. I am thrilled to have The Help on DVD, the book was great and has become a favorite and now I can enjoy the movie. Adele at The Royal Albert Hall CD, just brilliant, she is so amazing. Listened to it all day while making art. We ended the evening with chocolate mousse cake. We will continue to celebrate through the weekend, I just love December!

Pulled these words from the word paper wrapping.

You're every line

You're every word

You're everything

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Pattern Love

At Home

Sharing some pattern loves of mine on pieces I have collected for inspiration. I am currently taking an e-course called The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design with Rachael Taylor and Beth Nicholls.

They are absolutely fantastic.

This class has been full of amazing information and incredible inspiration.

The main purpose of an art class or drawing class before technique is to teach you to see. You become more aware in a sense. Pattern design is the repetition an element or elements in a piece of work or product. We are surrounded by ornamentation and decoration as a visual language, whether on our wallpaper or on a piece of clothing in our closet. When you think about it, so much comes together in the end, we have product, textiles, graphics, materials, decoration and a mix of media.

Just as we do with color we walk through the landscape of pattern everyday,

from minimal to flamboyant, what a journey.

Collection includes mod vintage dresses, pillows,pillow shams, placemats and scarves.

At the Shops

On my Desk

Wooster and Prince notecards

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Small Stuff

Up to the usual with my stamps but on a small scale this time.

I needed to make cards for the holidays. I love this abstract tree that I used in my piece with Mr Owl. It is a motif that can be used many times over and in a variety of ways. I used chipboard stock and envelopes for materials. I am partial to anything that resembles butcher paper! At first I liked the simplicity of a single tree, but the more I looked at it seemed lonely and lost. I felt I should add something and that something happens to be a bird. I used a white rubber eraser to make the small bird stamp. In the photo it is sitting on the stack of cards to the right.
I ran out of carving block material, so I "borrowed" my sons eraser and it worked!

Trial run with the stamps. The addition of the bird works well, love it!

Handmade holiday card set ready to go, I made five per pack.

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Friday, December 2, 2011

Word Path • Hold Me....

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

Word Paths, a Friday feature showcasing possibilities in written words, creative process and artistic pieces.

My goal is to present three to five words or three to five lines.

I may go to seven words or seven lines but probably not often, only if needed.

I plan to work the Word Paths out artistically and process them to share with you here.

You can go here, to my first post on this project and see how it all started.

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My supplies for the day. My trusty palette, liquid frisket for knock out effect of type, my all time favorite gouache for the background wash and the throwaway brush for the frisket.

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I have a few versions to share as I progressed to my final pick.

I had fun with these, all pieces are done on watercolor paper. I used frisket in art school, but I haven't thought about it in years until I was inspired by fellow blogger Lynn Richards. She authors a blog called BlueSkies. In one of her Art Everyday Month pieces she used frisket. I like having options in working out my Word Paths artistically while maintaining my style.

This last version still has the frisket where all the letters appear to be brown. I liked this brown on black effect so I stopped before removing the frisket to photograph it. I like to mix brown and black in outfits I put together to wear maybe that is why it appeals to me! The frisket has been pulled off where the letters appear white. Random in design but effective I believe. This version inspires me to paint brown type on black for future projects.

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Here is my word path for today

Hold Me for All Time

I love the romance of these words. They feel like an old film. Time, ever elusive stands still for that second of that embrace, that hug, that snuggle, that welcome, that hold.

Happy Weekend • Hold onto Someone Tightly • Enjoy the Language of Words

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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Found Words

My friend and fellow blogger Lori Moon has a series called Shared Messages from the Universe.

Lori is talented photographer and jewelry artisan.

She photographs found phrases and words she comes across in her travels in the The City.

She shares written signs that have a message that you probably walk past every day.

On her walks, she finds messages on billboards, ads in the subway, store fronts, etc.

My favorite one is here, because what she wrote rings true.

I am very inspired by words as you know.

I live in the country and I laugh about this series in a good way

because if I ever attempted to do the same my slate would read:

Children at play

Men at work
One lane road ahead

School bus stop ahead

For Sale

frost heaves

yield

CVS coming soon

So what is the message from my universe? I just laugh!

So funnily enough, I found words on a recent trip with my two kids and my two nieces to a children's museum. I came across these words put together by the younger set at an interactive station full of magnet words, blackboards, chalk, crayons and paper.

I love how in the one below we have to "imagine" the letter "g" and "i" in the word imagine.

Great advice. Just do it!

Just love this one.

This one goes without saying.

A shout out to the Flying Lessons Group.

Giggles here! I feel like this on my days I don't make art.

Lori did mention that we could find messages in magazines and here is one for me to share.
Another artist friend has this large jar full of magazine clippings of words she uses in her work.

On a recent visit this clipping is what I pulled out of the jar and it left me with a good laugh. Enjoy! Thank you for stopping by.

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