Happy Holidays & Season's Greetings

Happy December!

Today, I present to you my 2019 holiday art designs.

I was inspired by folk art and cut-out paper snowflakes that I often see around the holidays.

I completed most of the design work in Adobe Illustrator and then added the finishing touches of digital foil effects in Photoshop.

I ended up printing my postcards with Moo and using their gold foil customization option. I printed 5 different colour versions and was very happy with the results!

(In the version I sent in for print, I did not have the digital foil effect on the tree)

If you'd like to try printing with Moo, you can get 20% off your first order with this {referral link}.

Prints are merchandise are available through my online shops below:

RedBubble

Society6

TeePublic

Happy Holidays!

Resource Credits

Typeface: "Amazinga": https://creativemarket.com/ianmikraz/66045-Amazinga-Typeface
Textures:
Foil & Glitter Texture: https://creativemarket.com/Imagearea/1662530-Foil-Glitter-Texture
Gold Foil Textures, Gold Backgrounds: https://creativemarket.com/PaperElement/194964-Gold-Foil-Textures-Gold-Backgrounds

Happy Holly Jays!

Evening guys,

Today, I'm stocked to share my 2018 holiday cards!

Happy Holly Jay!

- The painting was completed with drawing inks, watercolor, gouache, and micron pens on vellum bristol paper.
- Size is approximately 7 x 10 inches (17.8cm x 25.4cm) in size.

Prints, cards, and more are available on:

RedBubble

Society6
INPRNT

Have a happy holiday season and season's greetings to all!

2017 Holiday Cards

Good day!

This winter season I'm finding that I don't have enough time to make a new holiday card "from scratch", but I'm happy to say that I've managed to do a little re-purposing to make something simple, but something I enjoy, to send to my close family and friends.

I've gone back a couple of years into my archive of work to dig up an illustration which I didn't really end up sharing, cleaned it up, and added text.

Originally the image was intended to be a 2 page spread in a children's book. The theme was enchantment of frosted windows and finding imagery there. Can you spot some hidden creatures in the frost?

I've made two versions of the holiday card - one which says "Happy Holidays!" and the other which says "Season's Greetings!"
Font used: https://creativemarket.com/sizimon/1646582-Rosaline-Update

And now, the designs are available on my Society6 and RedBubble shops. I've also adapted other sections of the image to suitable for things like scarves, mugs, phone cases, and etc.

 

Finally, please find some of the creatures I've hidden in the image. :)

crab

fish

jellyfish

seahorse

squirrel

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Sneak Peeks at Snowy Scenes

Hi there!

I've mentioned before that I'm working on a secretive, collaborative project. I still am, which is why I'm somewhat inactive here. However, as the project is beginning to near its end, I'm starting to share little sneak peeks of what I've been working on. Here's the first one. It's a collage of close ups from the paintings I've done:

 

Lots of snow, patterns, and trees!
I'll be posting more glimpses next week :)

I've also recently created a Behance account: https://www.behance.net/mariyaolshevska
Though I'll be posting on this blog, I'm also going to post new work on the Behance page because I'm really enjoying how easy it is to organize and update various projects.

Have a great week everyone!

selfie?