Thursday, December 3, 2015

Rose, Art and Sunflower Designs


I drew This little horse this morning in colored pencils to further explore some rose designs for next years horses.


 It resides in my my sketchbook along with some photos of other horses that I've made over the last few years.


This page in my sketchbook started with 2 photos of a wooden horse that I did a few years ago and I thought I'd explore elements of the design in watercolor and pencil as I think about what sorts of variations of the ideas that I'd like to carve up and paint next summer.

A New Blue Horse


I'm doing most of my designing on paper these days as I prefer to do the woodcarving and sanding outdoors in the summertime.


If I like the designs enough they'll make it to actual wooden horses. If not they just decorate my mail of sit in a sketchbook.

Either way, even unsuccessful designs entertain people and keep me creating.