'Envelope' on horses

By drawing on the skin, Gillian Higgins gave a visual look at the combined operation of 205 bones and 700 bundles, which was a major challenge for anatomy students.

Rather than bogged down with bone charts and sketches, Gillian Higgins, 27, an injury-rehabilitation therapist in Nottingham, came up with the idea of ​​drawing the internal parts of the horse on itself. Currently, the interesting students, horse racing instructors, horse club members, as well as horse-savvy people focus on her lectures, to witness the horse picture firsthand.

Higgins use Hypoallergenic water paint to paint horses. This kind of color is easy to wash after. It took four hours to paint a horse, depicting the bone structure on one side and on the other, depicting the different colored painted muscles.

Horses have 205 bones and 700 muscles.Drawing on their bodies helps students identify the parts of their horses' internal organs.

Higgins said: 'The drawing of the skeleton and the muscles on the side of the horse really means something to me. You can discover your horse's strongest point by observing what happens when it moves'.

This idea came to Higgins three years ago, when she just graduated from a certificate in "horse business management" at the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. "I realized that many knights, anatomy students and racehorse trainers benefit from a better understanding of how horses work and move. But it's hard to absorb names. I am trying to point out how the horses work in an interesting and understandable way. '

Gillian Higgins showed off the anatomy of a 13-year-old Kiitos horse in a presentation on horse surgery.

Usually Higgins often teaches horse anatomy on Freddie Fox, 12 or Henry, 6 years old and often uses gray to paint because this color is more visible than the other colors. 'Freddie Fox is the best model because it's good temperament and likes to be the center of attention at performances. Being painted on me is not different from them, they are just like being brushed or touched. They don't care much about that, " Higgins said.

Higgins once encountered a bad thing when a horse didn't notice he was being painted, and was led into the hall with about 150 people. It was a little scared and ran lacking in control.