Deborah Velásquez

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

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Friday, January 17, 2014

Word Path • Forever in My Heart

Special people stay in your heart forever, it is there that we reserve a place for them and hold them dear for a very long time……..a long time, like in forever.

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

Word Paths have been a Friday feature showcasing possibilities in written words, creative process and artistic pieces from the beginning of my blog You can go here, to my first post on this project and see how it all started.

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Here are My Word Paths for Today

I was inspired to make this art today because I was feeling
quite sad as I found out a
great friend is moving away.
Decided to express in art what I feel.
Ending on a "happy" note.
Here is a song that expresses how things go when our families get together….

Happy Weekend • Friendship • Enjoy the Language of Words

Thank you for stopping by.

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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Things that Caught my Eye.....Sharing Inspiration

Capturing inspiration while out and about with the camera.

I love sharing my finds with you too!

Here are Some Things That Caught my Eye:

BIRDS • MOTHS • BUTTERFLIES

FORM

COLOR

TEXTURE

PATTERN

TYPE

AND FOR ME…..

Thank you for stopping by.

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Friday, January 10, 2014

Word Path • Absolutely

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

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Here is My Word Path for Today

Absolutely. This is my word for the New Year. Saying yes, diving in, and taking risks. Absolutely.

Happy Weekend • Letters Are Magic • Enjoy the Language of Words

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

New Studio • New Work

Here is a peek at my New Studio.10B

A great space with mini gallery in the front and a work space in the back area. I have been open for two months and it is one of the greatest creative decisions I have made. I truly enjoy meeting customers, having workshops/classes and creating events to welcome friends new and old to this fun creative space.

New Work is coming out of my new studio.

Tropical Leaf work which was block printed. This test print is white ink on black paper.

Painting and sketching and staying within the tropical theme.

Thank you for stopping by.

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Happy New Year

2014•2014

Looking forward to an exciting New Year and very grateful for the wonderful happenings of 2013. Here are some favorite Word Paths from the past years as I move forward in Celebration of 2014 and all the goodness to come.

Happy New Year and All The Best for 2014.

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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Happy Thanksgiving!

Did

you

get

the

giblets

out?

Happy Thanksgiving

to you and your family!