Saturday, February 8, 2014

A Horse of A Different Color....A Zebra!

I had a desire to paint stripes...and so I grabbed a very common foal from 1995 and set to work. The process was fairly quick-- primer and then apply stripes, but little did I know how long the stripes would take!

Eventually, I came to the end, and the result was cuter than expected!





I'm still sad that I don't know enough about rehairing to give him a proper black-white-black hairdo, but perhaps his future owner will have the knowledge to do so. Even so, he's a right proper cutie!

His base coat shows through in some areas with a brown tint, which I think adds to his undertones very well, so I left it. And the color ran a little on some stripes with the first application of the sealer. I covered most of it the second go around, but the rest looks a little like hair, so I'm happy to leave it as is. I wish I could have made his eyes 'bigger', kind of like the anime effect. He deserves some large expressive eyes! Baby zebra, hello! ;)

I will be happy to send him off to a new, loving home, but considering how everyone is asking about parents for him, well.....I better buy some more supplies for the stripes!