"How Do You Paint a Piebald Horse?" Topic

Assuming that I want to paint a brown and white piebald horse, in what order should I paint the colors?

Does one paint the entire horse brown first and then add the white bits, or would you paint the horse white first, then add brown splotches?

I generally use a black undercoat for my horses, so for whites/Greys I would start with black, then dry brush a dark grey, a light grey and then a white highlight . So would thIs be the first step? And then what?

Your help and suggestions are most appreciated as I have never attempted to paint one of these complicated patterns.

Augie

I think that painting a single coat of white on brown would be … tricky.
Brown around the white would probably be better.

Perhaps you night want to paint each part of the horse differently, using your brown techinques and white techniques on the same horse, but in different areas.

In any event, it will be complicated.
Maybe that's why you don't see all that many painted piebald horses.

For a start, I'd tie him up before painting him.

I did the white first.

Dark over light and all that.

I also use a light undercoat for pale horses. Well, the 'undercoat' is the base colour…

This may be of some help:

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Get the black all over to the right shade, then large patches of grey which are highlighted with white.

Stronty Girl did a great tutroial on the TMP workbench, which I used:

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My own attempt is here:

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Does one paint the entire horse brown first and then add the white bits, or would you paint the horse white first, then add brown splotches?

Get the black all over to the right shade, then large patches of grey which are highlighted with white.

Piebald, not to be confused with Skewbald!

I pa int the horse all over white then do the markings, brown or black, on top.

Use photos or Coggins papers of real horses to get the patterns right.

Terrement,

Go stand in the corner and think about what a Bad Citizen you are!

TVAG

trial and error

Piebald, not to be confused with Skewbald!

Now I re-read it I am confused, I only saw the word piebald in the first line of the OP….:)

It's a language thing. In American English "piebald" is commonly used to describe an animal that is white with splotches of natural color, usually black. It's not precise nor completely correct, but it is how the word's meaning is changing in the U.S.

In English and among horse breeders, a "piebald" animal is white with black splotches of color & a "skewbald" is white with any other color.

Oddly enough most of my horses are bays. Same colour as Canadian Tire Rust Primer!

I always find that the best results are from painting the lightest colour first, add highlights and then paint the dark 'patches' over the top and highlight them. That way, the light patches do not 'pop' out so much.