Dot Painting of a Horse

According to the Chinese Zodiac Calender, 2014 is the year of the horse. In many cultures, horses are symbolic for strength, energy and beauty. What’s not to like? I created this piece of art in honor of 2014 being the ” year of the horse”. The horse shape is created with dots of paint applied with a pencil eraser.

Materials used

• Wood board
• White spray-paint
• Acrylic paints
• Painter’s tape
• Pencil
• Marker
• Scissors

With white spray-paint, I applied a thin layers paint. The key to spray painting is several thin layers. While the paint dried, I hunted for images of horses on the internet. I taped 4 pieces of card stock paper together and drew a horse from a few different images. You can also simply print and trace an image of a horse.

Once the painted board was dry, I used a pencil eraser dipped in acrylic paint to apply paint dots to the board.

I only applied dots to the area where I was planning to place the card stock horse shape.

I allowed the painted dots to dry completely. Using scissors, I cut horse out of the card-stock paper. I applied painter’s tape to one side of the card stock horse and placed the horse on top of the painted dots.

With several light coats of white spray-paint, I covered the entire board, horse and dots.

There you have it…

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Carmody Tisdale