“Fire Horse” — a Family New Year Postcard Workshop

“Fire Horse” — a Family New Year Postcard Workshop

The year 2026 is the Year of the Horse — a perfect reason to depict a horse in all its festive power and turn the artwork into a New Year postcard.

Together with illustrator Svetlana Ivanova, we will explore how horses have been depicted by children’s book artists — from naive and playful to fairy-tale and heroic interpretations. Then we will move on to hands-on practice.

Both children and adults will create their own image of the Fire Horse and design it as a New Year postcard to give as a gift.

We will look at examples from children’s book illustration and discuss the techniques used to achieve expressiveness. After that, in the practical part, participants will create their own horses using a variety of techniques — paper-based, textile, and graphic.