I’m trying to find something to paint my 3 horses with. One I want to paint like a pumpkin, the 2nd Green and the third yellow Batman decorations on. What have you used and where do you get it?
There are “paints” made for horses it seems. Who knew? lol
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I’ve used tempera paint before. It worked fine. The reds can stain light coloured horses - I wouldn’t want to paint red apples or blood stains on a paint or a grey lest I turn them pink, but otherwise I had no issues.
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Whodathunkit LOL Too bad there’s no orange
Well, that was just one of many sites that had it. Saw it on Amazon too. Didn’t really look at the different colors.
Though a thought popped into my head momentarily that I could buy a bunch of white, do my 17.2 hand black horse up like a zebra and really spook the local farmers! :winkgrin: But then I thought, probably not a good idea to have a poor farmer drive off the road in their $100,000 John Deer tractor trying to figure out how a giant zebra got in my pasture.
Loved this great idea of painting the horse on the occasion of Halloween. Can you suggest me any ideas that, how can I paint it.
I think any kid-safe paint would also be horse-safe.
I think the difference is that paint can stain their coat in some cases and has to be washed off. The “pony paint” brand is a liquid chalk - you just brush it off after it’s dried and its not supposed to stain. So for people in southern climates that can give their horse a bubble bath this time of year, either would be fine. But for those already in winter temps, the chalk might be better.
@Horseman15 , if they don’t have orange, why not just mix yellow and red together in a separate container? Assuming those two pony paints are available.
Because they don’t have yellow either
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Ooooh, paint a black horse like a horse skeleton, preferably in glow-in-the-dark paint! Take him to a cemetary. Take pictures. :D:lol:
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:lol:
The “melon” color looks kinda orange (well, at least to my old eyes). But that may also be my 9 year old laptop screen!
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I’ve seen the skeleton before, its’ a really cool effect on a dark horse. It really annoys me when people get the location of the spine in the neck wrong, though 
We used white tempera on dark horses and it worked well, with good, opaque coverage. We brushed the bulk off with a light curry, then removed the remaining residue with a hose, because temps were in the 80’s. I think you would be able to remove the residue with a damp rag or even a more vigorous brushing in cooler temps. I can’t help with the color staining light horses, however.
I have 2 chestnuts and a dark Bay so I’m not worried about staining the coats
