Artist Julia Persson-Morrill has had a life long interest in Dala Horses but didn't start to carve and paint them until just a few years ago. Some of the wooden horses are sold out of her studio, she can often be seen working on them out in her garden. She is happy to show the horses or share her skills with visitors all summer.
Saturday, October 31, 2015
A peek at the sketchbook
It's a bit hard to make it out here but I'm breaking down a design I did a couple of years ago in wood and doing the sunflowers in watercolor and I started doing another horse covered with paintbrushes and pencils as a pencil drawing.
I've got a lot of work to do with it and will add the other images as I go along.
I felt the green around the sunflowers wasn't dark enough to provide a contrast so I'll be working over those areas in watercolor pencil.
The important thing is that I plan to do all of my design work over the winter so that I'll be ready to settle down and make them in wood next summer.
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