GallopHome, the making of a Board Game...
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a Board Game about Horses, an idea with my illustrations made into reality...
Jennifer Jones the owner and inventor of this game Gallop Home explains;
My mother read the book Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. This book is all about residual income, real estate, inventions, etc. After reading the book, she called me one day and said....."as much as you know about kids and as much as you know about horses, there are no good Board Games out there to target this market...why don't you make one??"
I laughed and said "Sure mom...I 'll get right on it!!" but much to my surprise, as I was traveling on an airplane to another business appt., it jumped into my head. I wrote the ideas down quickly and that began 2 years of learning and development of the game. I had 3 different Artists that drew the board and decided on Delia Pacheco as my artist. She captured just the look that I wanted. Pat Kasper of Kasper Design was hired to produce the beautiful playing pieces that are also in the game. There were costly learning curves in the production, but 2 years later in 2003, Gallop Home Train your horse and WIN was born. After that, Gallop Home Coloring Book, was released in the Fall of 2003. In the Fall of 2004 Gallop Home Puzzle Kits were released. Art work by Delia Pacheco .
on a personal note:
Jen is a wonderful imaginative person in all her visions, a great amount of time and money has been put into this game for production.
What a great way to get your kids to learn about horses...whether you own one or not, it's a fun popular learning game.
My part in bringing this Equine Board Game, Coloring Book & Puzzles about!
artwork of all Breeds of Horses for these products
When Jennifer called me from Florida and asked if I would like to illustrate an Equine Board Game, I said sure, send me the details and I will see what I can come up with. She already had other artists do preliminary illustrations of the game, but Jen wanted a different feel so chose me.I then put together illustrations with my ideas working on it at lightning speed to get it done. When Jen approved the sketches I began painting a 16" x 20" Acrylic painting of the finished board, making sure all the areas were in their correct places for the overlay of the game.
As I started to do the illustrations for the Coloring Book I decided to draw from memory things that I had experienced with Equine breeds. I also included my daughters and their ventures with their Horses and Pony.
Then for the Puzzles my thought was to do different popular breeds...Jen chose three to start with. I also used acrylic to paint the images and did the background like a color wheel so when you laid all the puzzles together they would match up in the colors...they were fun projects to do.
Copyright Notice:
The Coloring Book and Puzzles are Copyrighted in my name...
All Rights are Reserved and can not be used without written permission from me.
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Comments?
Thanks for looking and reading...
I enjoyed illustrating this Gallop Home project, and the making of this lens to share...
I do hope you will buy one of the products for your Horse loving child..
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goo2eyes
Jan 28, 2012 @ 9:37 pm | delete
- you are really have many facets: artist, painter, designer, squid angel.
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oxfordian
Jan 15, 2012 @ 10:27 am | delete
- Ok, is there anything you HAVEN'T done? I LOVE this. Here's another angel blessing for you.
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squidoopets
Mar 16, 2011 @ 5:34 pm | delete
- Wow- this is really cool! I am lensrolling to my horse fun pages, many thanks -:)
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SubtleMoon
Nov 19, 2010 @ 12:51 am | delete
- This is awesome - my husband and I are avid board gamers, and adding horses to that mix makes it wonderful!!!
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khael
Oct 4, 2010 @ 10:53 am | delete
- It's nice to see people coming up with interesting family style games. It's inspiring and I hope I can have my own game published as well.
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Bus_Stop_Toy_Shop May 18, 2010 @ 4:57 am | delete
- D-Artist, do you know if this game is available through any of the United Kingdom board game distributors? It looks great, and I sell quite a lot of horse related toys...
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Apr 30, 2010 @ 4:46 pm | delete
- I love this idea! Reminds me of when I was in school, trying my hand at horse drawings lol... I couldn't do it very well, but those illustrations above are absolutely fantastic. So beautiful.
Keep up the great lens.
Ps: thank you so much for your comment on my angels lens. God bless you.
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winlin
Apr 1, 2010 @ 4:44 pm | delete
- What a great idea and a nice lens. My wife is the real equestrian in the family she's been teaching for many years and taught me to ride hunt seat when I was dating her.
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Pastiche
Nov 17, 2009 @ 7:59 am | delete
- I think my #1 granddaughter Bella is almost ready for GallopHome this Christmas! She attended horse camp this summer and really loved it (just like here mom and grandma ...).
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JaguarJulie
Nov 11, 2009 @ 12:12 pm | in reply to JaguarJulie | delete
- Gosh, has it really been that long since I first visited? Have you worked on any other cool projects recently?
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DON'T FORGET...
those kids who love horses and wish to learn about training a horse and the different disciplines that apply.
Also check out the Puzzles, they have Frames with them!
The Coloring Book has 48 pages of different images of a variety of disciplines, and fun things done with horses & ponies.
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