Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all of you 

and may God's blessings be numerous in the new year!

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

Getting in the Mood for Christmas

It must be the Christmas music!

Hope all of you are finding the spirit and blessings of the season!

Looking for Sunshine

I can hear the wind blowing outside my window in the wee hours of this morning. The lights have been flickering on and off with cracking and booming sounds of tree branches hitting the roof. I am praying that sunshine will arrive and chase this windy dreary autumn storm away!

Halloween Fun

I have my eyes on you!

Halloween is getting frighteningly close!

Grandchild!!!

A New Grandchild!

I have not been good about posting art lately, but life has been really really busy. Oliver my new grandchild has made the scene and oh has he touched my heart. 

So here is my ode to Oliver with lots of hugs & kisses!

Love you Sweetie Pie!

"I've got to Crow!"

It has been awhile.

I have been busy with no ideas. So I thought to do a rooster for my 

great-grandmother. According to my grandmother, her mother was very fond of roosters and saved the life of her favorite while growing up on a farm in Michigan. It was one of many stories that my grandmother told of her mother. 

I think she sort of haunts my mother and I in a good way. Maybe this explains the roosters my my mother made  and painted. I even have a rooster doll my mother made.