4 more Dala Horse Christmas Ornament Designs

I am finally on the last 5 wooden dala horse ornaments and am excited to show 4 of them to you.

After having designed nearly 400 Dala horses it's getting hard to keep each of them different.

After I get that final ornament done it will do me good to step away from it awhile.

Dala Horses Designed on Canvas Panels

Wooden Dala Horse Daisy Design Ornaments

 As you can see there are a lot of fun ways to use a daisy on these horses.

 They're so easy and fun I can't resist using them whenever I run out of other design ideas.

 They seem to look good on just about any color background.

2018 Dala Horse Ornaments

For this years Christmas tree I thought I would revisit a few of my favorite designs.  I started with a pair of very different Iris horses, then moved on to more conventional designs.  Mixing elements of traditional dala horses with a spin of my own, each ornament is a bit different but they all go together.   

            

In addition to making ornaments I'm also designing them in paint and canvas that can be made into ornaments in the future.

                   Here are some of the ornaments in progress.

Lampshade Design with Flowers and Dala Horses

This project began as an up-cycling project to freshen up a discolored and stained lampshade.

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I started out by painting flowers over the damaged binding and then tracing some of my wooden Dala horses on it.

I ended up adding all of the other designs to pull the flowers and the horses together.

The more I worked on it the busier the design got and the more fun I had.

The great thing about this project is that it gave me a lot of other ideas for things to paint. 

Following htrough on the New Dala Horse Designs

Having done the new design in red I experimented with other colors and variations of the design.

I'm glad I scanned the basic drawing before coloring it in. It will give me an opportunity to audition other color combinations before painting any more wooden horses.

Before I move on with that I'll be making a wooden horse with the yellow design on it.

The possibilities are endless. 

New Horse Design Based On Tradition

I started out with a drawing that combines several different, traditional design elements to create a new horse.

 

Next I filled in the drawing with watercolors and acrylics.

Here is the completed drawing. My next step will be to paint 2 wooden horses.
One will be freestanding to see what it looks like in 3 dimensions and the other will be a Christmas ornament to see how it looks flat.

Here are all three finished horses. It made me laugh because laying the ornament down on the page and standing the other horse up looked almost like the new horse design was jumping off the page and becoming real.

From this photo it's difficult to tell which horse is paper and which one is wood. I may use both versions on merchandise in my zazzle store. Depending on what sort of look that I'm going for.

Here's a better view of the wooden Christmas Tree Ornament.

Here you see the freestanding dala horse both standing alone and joining the collection of other horses that I have designed and painted.

I think it fits in pretty well, don't you?