Artistry was sired by a proven perlino dun stallion, so a dun gene along with the pre-requisite cream gene, was certainly a possibility.

When Artistry was born, his dorsal was especially intriguing, as it was shaped exactly as a dun dorsal would be, and it was very clean edged. However, Artistry's tail showed almost no dilute frosting, which is not typical of a dun dilute foal. Dun dilute foals generally have an abundance of tail frosting. Even bay foals can often have quite a bit of lighter foal tail hair. But, brown and brown buckskin foals, on the other hand, generally exhibit little to no foal frosting in their tails at all.

Primitive leg barring was also present on Artistry's front legs. But the extreme lack of tail frosting was reason enough to have serious doubts that he inherited his sire's dun gene.

Thankfully, the dun zygosity test was available via UC Davis, and his breeder was able to have his color verified scientifically. Artistry's dun zygosity test results showed no dun dilution was present. Artistry was confirmed to be a buckskin, not a dunskin.

Once he shed his foal coat, his color became even more clear. His overall darker body coloring is indicative of brown buckskin, further confirming that he does not have a dun gene, as his color expression is typical for brown buckskin, but not for any of the dun dilute colors.