Many people assume white objects are boring to paint. Absolutely not, they are delightful blends of blues, purples, oranges, greens, and grays. If you aren't dishing out these colors, your recipe is flawed.

KEEP YOUR SURFACE WET- These techniques all require the wet on wet painting technique.

Adjust the brightness of your screen if you do not see the colors- and because your computer screen may not show the colors exactly as we have them, we are labeling the colors. BE SURE AND DOUBLE CLICK THE PHOTOS! (Then click once to return to normal size.)

The top of the photo will be the animal's back. The bottom right corner is the middle of the haunch / flank.

P=purple, LP=light purple, VLP=very light purple. Obviously then, B=blue, LB=light blue, and VLB=very light blue.

STEP ONE, above. Paint the top (the animals back) with a solid strip of light purple, with a solid strip of light blue directly under it. Under that, make sweeping strokes with the light blue, leaving strips of white. When you get halfway down (the animals shoulders, or halfway down the sides) choose a lighter blue (LB) As you head into the lower sides of the animal (which will be the bottom of this picture) do very light purple (VLP).The important thing is the darker purple and blue are at the top. You can do it!

STEP TWO, below. Add the greens and oranges where shown. Note I did not put the orange (O) all the way across the top. The purple break in between the two orange sections makes for better contrast. Overlap the green and orange areas where they occur next to each other. Keep these colors LIGHT!

In this step,the important thing is to get some light green and light orange colors rolling (NOT STRAIGHT) across the middle, but NOT at the bottom right purple area. (VLP area, step one). You want that to be fairly free of other colors, that is the middle of the hip / flank (if a white horse.)

O=orange, VLO=very light orange, LG=light green, VLG=very light green