do you know how to paint horses with oils?

I hope this helps!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S2fpoCDtAI&feature=related

Chris,

Mark Bannerman has a very nice and concise SBS in his Osprey book, Modeling Scale Figures :

[url=http://www.ospreypublishing.com/store/Modelling-Scale-Figures_9781846032387[/url]

He basically primes the horse with black acrylic overall. He then sprays a light gray or white acrylic down to the top of the horse to pre-shade the highlights (leaving the black on the bottom and in the shadows).

He then puts burnt sienna oil paint on the whole horse, and then sort of "dry-brushes" most of the color away brushing from top to bottom leaving the color concentrated on the bottom and in the shadows.

He allows this oil paint to dry for a couple of days, and then repeats the oil color using the same technique to darken up the colors. He does this oil paint / drying cycle 2-3 times. On the last coats, he adds some raw umber to the burnt sienna to darken up and enrich the colors.

He ends up by using only the raw umber in the last coat or two, so that in the end, he's applied 5-6 coats of oil paint brushing most of it off the highlights after each application and allowing it to dry between coats. His is almost a technique similar to a "faux antique" furniture finish.

He finishes the horse by doing the detail painting on the main, tail, eyes, saddle, bridle, and other straps, etc.

He also uses this same technique for leather on figures, and although I've never painted a horse using this method, I have used on leather figure items and it does work very nicely.

HTH