Well, that just got easier...

[bladespark]

I've been debating on the color pattern to do my new horse sculpture in, when I do finally get to painting it. It's a Friesian, which I hadn't know much about prior to this, other than that they are light draft horses, and are pretty as anything. The photos I've seen of Friesians are always of black ones, but looking at resins of them I saw dapple and pinto and plenty of other colors, so I assumed that black was just what you saw in photos because the black ones are showier.

Not so.

Apparently they only come in black. You get very rare cases of chestnut, but even those are dark, and if it's really a proper, pureblooded Friesian, it will be black. (Seems the resin painters were taking liberties.)

Of course it's not flat black, though it comes closer to being a pure, true black than any other horse color I've ever seen. It's a really rich, dark chocolate kind of color, black with undertones of brown. It'll be simpler to paint that something like a dapple or even the blood bay I'd been favoring. And I think the result will be quite impressive.

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[lacy.livejournal.com]

Yep, they are indeed always black as you've discovered. :) There is a type of horse, the Gypsy Vanner, that has pretty much the exact same body of a Friesian but does come in paint coloration (and possibly others, but paint for certain.) Here's a link to some pics if you're curious: http://www.gypsygold.com/