Unicorns!

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Unicorns are a mythical creature but they were described in ancient Greek writings on nature,  The Greeks truly believed that unicorns were a real creature.  They were reported to have cloven hooves like a goat and the general body shape of a horse with a tail like a lion.  Different stories or reports have unicorns as pure white, or red, or blue.  I feel that if unicorns were real they would be a close relative of the horse.  They would come in many colors and possibly patterns like the Mustangs of the American West.
From a historical perspective, there are ancient tapestries that have unicorns on them.  The throne chair of Denmark is supposed to be made of unicorn horns, however, these "unicorn horns" are probably narwhal tusks. There are reports of European travelers seeing an Indian animal that they reported as being huge and shaped like a pig and even liking to wallow around in mud.  This "unicorn" was certainly an Indian rhinoceros.
Back to the legend or mythology of the unicorn:
-They are very intelligent.
-They can only be captured and tamed by a maiden.  In fact a unicorn can be so full of love for a fair      maiden that he will come up to a seated maiden and lay his head down in the maiden's lap.
-The horn is made of a substance called "alicorn" and was powerfully magical in and of itself.
-Differing views on unicorn blood are that it is either deadly or life sustaining.
-Unicorns are pure in heart and to catch one the maiden also has to be pure in heart.

NOTE:  My unicorn drawings are are stylized in various ways.  Some are more simple and some are more detailed and more realistic.  Other drawings are meant for younger children who color. Sometimes I draw a traditional unicorn tail and other times I like to draw a beautiful arched  tail more like those seen on Arabian horses.

This color drawing of the unicorn is Copyright Robin Lyman, 2012.  

   I drew this colored unicorn from a photo of my niece's horse.  The horse was named Susie.  The drawing is done in color pencils and pastel chalk.  If you look closely you will see that animal fur and/or hair can be composed of many different colors.  Try this in your coloring of animals.  A "brown horse's" hair or/and fur is actually several different colors that blend together when you look at the horse from a distance.  You can blend colors with crayons by coloring in the same place very lightly with more than one color of crayon...OR by drawing many short lines or long lines to represent individual hairs. 
I hope you enjoy coloring the other unicorn pictures.

Unicorn and Squirrel

Unicorn and Mermaid

Unicorn at Sunrise

Unicorn by a River

Unicorn on a Hill