Return of the Dala Horse

You may remember that I was designing and painting a lot of Dala horses last spring (below is a painting that I did for the gentleman that cut out a lot of the wooden horses for me, I thought it made a nice "thank You" gift- don't you?)

I thought this painting got a bit "busy" so I'm trying to simplify things in my current painting which you see at the top of the post.

This time I'm trying to refine a few of my design ideas and confine them to the center of the canvas panel so that I'll be able to use it on products in my Zazzle store when it's finished.