"good horse brown and contempory trend in color saturation" Topic

I'm using the Delta Ceramcoat paints and notice especially in their Maroon and Brown Iron Oxide that those newer versions are weaker in I guess saturation (correct term?) and seem more gray and less intense or vivid than their 15 year old counterparts which I'd finally tossed due to drying out of the bottom of the bottle. I also see this trend in other paints though. Does anyone know of a good strong and vivid brown for painting horses without reverting to oil paints?

I like using citadel paints for horses

doombull brown and rhinoxhide are a God starting point IMHO

I go to the very cheapest squeeze tubes of acrylics back in the art supplies--Fine Touch or Liquitex Basics. More expensive than a bottle of Ceramcoat, but not a lot worse per ounce, and they've never gone bad on me.

I use Foundry Triads for 28mm horses.

Saves a lot of mucking about.

I agree with Robert, I use Liquitex whenever I can. After that model colors such as Vallejo then my Ceramcoat or Americana.

I paint the horse a Ceramcoat color then wash with gold, bronze or copper. Once dry wash again with Ceramcoat Walnut. It gives the horse a nice sunshine sheen.

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Vallejo works for me, use a range of browns, often mixing my own. I tend to use wash technique on horses, gets nace highlight/ shading effect, picking up muscle definition etc.

Foundry for me as well, though I give them a wash of whichever Citadel colour suits before doing the highlights.