Winter! Baby It's Cold Outside!

 Winter...Snowman with Cardinals

It has been a very busy fall and I have had little time to play and create. With the cold weather approaching, I decided to look back on an older design and update it a bit by adding a few things like a light house and another bird and modifying the layout. 

The nice part of winter is the days will now slowly get longer! 

It"s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas!

 Tis the Season!

Always fun to add a few loved ones to an illustration when publishing one's own Christmas cards.

It is Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas!

Joy for the Season!

December is a hectic month. 

So much to prepare for the holidays.

So my wish to you is finding the Joy in the meaning of Christmas 

as well as the Miraculous Gift 

 was given to all of us.

Merry Christmas!

The Happy Snowman

Christmas is coming! Time to start on Christmas cards. Here is my latest. 

The Happy Snowman comes as a pillow too!

If you are interested in purchasing this design as a pillow, click on the image above.

As a card click on this link:

http://fineartamerica.com/products/happy-snowman-valerie-drake-lesiak-greeting-card.html

HAPPY NEW YEAR !

H A P P Y   2 0 1 6 !

Wishing you all a blessed and happy new year!

The Letter S is for Snowman

S is for Snowman

'Tis the Season for Snowman and Snow with Christmas lights and houses all a glow.

M E R R Y   C H R I S T M A S

 To All 

and 

May Your Blessings Grow!  

 

January Blahs

January

It has been very cold and snowy in Ohio during this month of January,

not to mention the endless gray skies!

Snow at Christmas is festive, but not in January when the reality of winter hits. 

Heavy coats and boots weigh us down as we try to make our way out of the comfort of our homes.

The bright side is this: there is less than a week left of January and February is a short month!

The days are getting longer!

Both January and February are those months of recuperation, collecting our thoughts, and cleaning out closets of unwanted stuff. It is the preparation for Spring!

Maybe January is a necessity.

Yikes! Christmas is Around the Corner!

Joyful Snowman

I have been asked to speak to the Lakewood Art League this Monday and offer a design for raffle. 

My brain went dead. If I offered a letter that would only appeal to those with a connection to that letter.

As I started to work on some ideas I was also slowly panicking at the idea that Christmas is making its approach quickly. So I figured since Christmas around the corner, maybe a snowman would be good for raffle. So I dug up a design a did years back and updated it to give it new life and cut me some slack in the lack of time department. So here he is.

Just 39 days till Christmas!

 

Merry Snowman

Here is a merry snowman for the holidays!

I had illustrated him for a art print and greeting card in a rectangle format for Fine Art America.

You can check him out by clicking on the following link:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/merry-snowman-valerie-drake-lesiak.html