Are zebras black and white, or white and black? I was recently part of a discussion among other artists about zebras. The age-old...

The bleach spot on the hip of this horse is the type of marking that often raises questions about whether the individual is a chimera. It...

Double-dilute foals sometimes display irregular patches of darker coloring.

If not all brindle horses are chimeras, what are they? When unusual horses are posted on social media, a typical response is for someone...

I have been thinking a lot about the size and spacing of spotting patterns lately. It's something I notice in appaloosa patterns and also...

One of the questions that came up in response to the posts on late greying was whether this could explain reports of early greying. More...

Several of this week's inspiration horses are unusual duns, so I thought I would start with a different kind of dun variation. One of the...

Old stud books show that the breed wasn't always exclusively dun. Norwegian Fjords do not vary much in color. It says something that I...

We spent the day doing some tests to see if color had an impact on the surface temperature of horses. A few summers ago, I wrote a post...

It has been thirteen years since I made a series of posts about a group of late-greying horses. At the time, an unusual PRE...

An archived post from December 13, 2011 Back in July, I posted about an unusual grey Connemara stallion (Ponies don’t read). There I...

An archived post from July 5, 2011 Rules books, that is. I think if someone did a word cloud for the manuscript for the horse color book,...

A friend recently shared a picture of this Clydesdale mare, Olde Tyme I. M. Nina ("Nina"). Her trainer, Jen Hemphill of Rolling Thunder...

If you do a web search on bloody shoulders, you will likely come across the claim that these markings are “concentrated areas of...

When I began work on the first Equine Tapestry books, I was humbled by how people generously shared information about their breeds. One...

The first image for this week’s post comes from Heather Forrest. It was taken at the 2023 Scottish Open for the Icelandic Horse. It is...

Although I said to expect randomness in the Friday Inspiration posts, this week’s group of horses does have a theme. My feature photo is...

One of the things that jumps out about fleabitten greys is how red the speckles are. It was noticeable in the pictures of the Arabian...

I have always had one unbreakable rule for the blog: no photos without permission. Unless the copyright period has passed or the owner...

I am going to take a slight detour before we look at the actual colors of fleabites. I wanted to point out a feature that observant...