January 19, 2025
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Granville man creates Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too

Snow sculptures made for his daughters

By Kim Shute

Perez colored the Winnie the Pooh and Tigger sculpture with food coloring and water after carving it out of snow.

GRANVILLE – Steven Perez of Granville is using his artistic talents to inspire his daughters to get creative and delighting his neighbors in the process.

Perez, whose normal endeavors lean more towards drawing and painting, sculpted life-size versions of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger out of snow in his Hennepin Street yard.

Steven Perez uses a brush to clean off and enhance Winnie the Pooh's face outside his home in Granville. (Scott Anderson)

He said he first tried his hand at snow art a year ago for his now 13-year-old Mia and 7-year-old Anaiz, but mild winter weather kept him from getting in more time in the snow.

Steven Perez stands next to his Winnie the Pooh and Tigger snow sculpture outside his home in Granville. "It took me two days to create the popular Disney characters," said Perez. Perez has created some snow sculptures in the past but this was his most elaborate one. (Scott Anderson)

“Me and my daughters first made a bear and a honey pot, but the weather didn’t hold out to try it again until now,” he said.

“I’ve been trying new projects and been showing my girls, who are also gifted in art, to think outside the box with their imagination,” he added.

“I already have a couple more ideas in mind,” Perez said. “I’m watching the weather.”

Tigger pounces on Winnie the Pooh carved all out of snow made my Steven Perez outside his home in Granville.

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