Dala Horse projects

I continue working with the design tools and am painting some boxes to keep them in. The divided box in the background is going to be used to display and sell small magnets and buttons with my designs on them. Yes, that will be painted in a dala horse theme as well.

I was "playing with design ideas on this little horse and while it's cute enough it won't be included in my book or classes. This will  make a cute little gift for someone so no effort is ever wasted. Everything works somewhere.

I couldn't resist making some changes on the horse that I painted on Saturday. Everyone likes this one so it will make the project list and instruction sheet for the next Red Dala Horse class. the problem now is to remember which areas to paint first and what the best way to demonstrate the brush strokes would be. Keep reading, I'll get there...

Two heads are better than one

Yes, I'm still working on ways to create design tools that will make it easy to teach people how to paint these horses.

I just finished the first side of these two. I'm doing the manes in a way that eliminates the need to wait for one color to dry before adding the next. 

When you get a number of people painting these in a short period of time you want to make that as fast and easy as possible to make sure that you can finish your horse before the end of class.