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Begin with your horse painted the base coat color that you want. I then apply some striping with my airbrush. Keep it light, you just want his coat to show some variation but not look like a zebra. That lesson is later. :) The face and three legs will be white on the finished horse.
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Apply the first coat of the brindle markings. I am applying them by hand but you could do them with the airbrush. I am using a straight burnt umber since my horse is bay. Keep the pattern random and follow your sprayed stripes. This just gives the brindle a background color that gives it depth. You can make them random lights and darks. I used a #1 detail brush for this step. |
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This is how he looks with the first coat of brindle. You can add more going down around the belly if you like or you can leave off the ones on his neck. There really isn't any true "pattern" for brindle so just do what you think looks good. If you are worried about getting color on some areas that you don't want it on you can put a light coat of Krylon 1311 over the horse so you can take off any marks that you didn't plan on putting on the horse. A little water on a Q tip will do wonders after you have a light coat of Krylon on there. Be careful though, if you get too agressive you will get down into the base coat. |
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When you are finished with your first coat and it is dry, apply a lighter brown color near and over the darker burnt umber. The color I used here is Jo Sonjas Brown Earth. I just did the same type of pattern next to and around the darker color to give it some diversity. As you can see, some of the airbrushed lines still show but just look like variations in the color of his coat. |
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This is a view from the top. The photograph I am using actually had a dorsal stripe connected to some of the stripes but not all. The pattern follows the hair growth direction. |
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Here I have started putting on the details but before I did that I used the airbrush to overspray the brindle markings to make them look more blended into the coat of the horse. I used Jo Sonja Brown Earth because I didn't want to darken the coat at all, just blend those stripes in a bit more. Only spray over the stripes, not over the entire horse or you will lose some of the depth of the color. |
 This is another Brindle horse. Notice that his stripes are lighter in color than the previous one. The brindle stripes can be just about any color from light to dark. |
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