How to Paint Shell Hooves

So after a long day of horse fun with my friend Kristian of Five Paws Studio I have decided to do a tutorial on how to do shell hooves. You need 1) Flesh Tone acrylic 2) White acrylic 3) Burnt Umber acrylic 4) Burnt Sienna acrylic

First you paint the hooves flesh tone

As you let that dry mix together 1 part burnt umber, 1 part white, to 2 parts flesh tone. This should be only a few shades darker than the original flesh tone color.

Paint the mixture on the hooves, don't worry if you don't paint all of the hoof. It should look similar to this-

Next paint the hoof with thinned down white, then stripe it with thinned down flesh tone and burnt sienna. Wash, rinse, and repeat until you achieve your desired striping affect. Next you'll take thinned burnt umber to do the vertical striping. It should look something like this-

Detailed hooves can make or break a custom in some cases. I hope this how-to helped you with this.