To use the template, I use it in two different ways. For our first seahorse that we're going to paint, I use a mask as well as tracing the image. So I just cut one of these seahorses out and they do flip over. So you only need to cut out one to use it in this fashion. And you can either trace around this or use a light source to trace it onto your paper. This is just a light pad.

You could also use a window with sunlight coming through it. And all I do is I put my template down on my light source, illuminate it and then I put it on my page where I want to have my image so I'll just put it just like this. And then I take my pencil and I very carefully make the outline, and I'll speed this up. And here I create my seahorse facing to the right. I'll also make one facing to the left For our second image, so after you have that we can start painting