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

equine art by DeliaWhen 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.

Arabian Puzzle

Build your own picture and then save it with the Frame included

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art by Delia

friesian

Friesian Puzzle

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Thoroughbred Puzzle

Build your own Picture and then save it with the Frame included

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Coloring Book by artist Delia

a few sample pages showing different disciplines

coloring book

This coloring book will most likely be reprinted under another company's name.

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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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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horses are the theme,

If you wish to own Delia's art check out her websites, or even here on Cafepress
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Great gift for the horse lover or a fundraising event

Miniature Paintings made into a Mural

This little book makes a great gift, leave it as a book or take the perforated pages and make your own Mural, this can be a great way to make money for a fundraiser event. Each picture can be sponsored for a cost and added to the Mural.
Contact me for details:
Special price includes shipping $20.00

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Originally Created on 11/28/2006

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