Unicorns

There is no denying that I love nothing more than painting some unicorns. There is also no denying that sometimes what I decide to create works, and sometimes it doesn't! Sometimes I create something that everyone loves, sometimes I create something that I hate and others love and sometimes I just create "something".

So I've been having great fun over the last few weeks painting some of the unicorns from the new Breyer mystery unicorn sets. Whilst I took the horns off the new moulds I left the old G2 moulds with their horns on and got creative!

And of course I got my specialist paints out, because why not?

So first up is my favourite of the whole bunch. This is a Breyer Stablemate G2 Clydesdale. He has been painted to black and white. He has then had pink ombre added to his mane and given a white stripe and white horn.

He has then had moons added in white base mixed with lit pigment. I have also added this to his tail, horn, back hooves and to his white stripe.

Lit pigment glows even under normal light, but take the light away and you've got one seriously glowy horse!

Number two was a bit of an experiment. For some reason I decided to do the base colour in colour shift paint on top of white primer. This created an unusual glazed look, in green!

I then dd the shading in a paint called "Blood for the Blood God". This is a technical paint that is designed to basically replicate blood. When sprayed through it creates a translucent and slightly shiny effect. It looks rather cool!

And because all of that wasn't enough for this little guy, I then added white dots across the entire body using the same acrylic/lit pigment mix. Unfortunately the pigment didn't take in all places but there are still quite a few glowing spots, like his face spots!

This final one is less successful. He just looks rather odd. Like a sort of strange bumblebee. But I'm sure someone will love him!

I hope you enjoyed! There are still a few to be finished so there will be more unicorns coming soon!