Working With Your Brush

 The Brush is A Part of You

    The brush is not a force to be reckoned with, it's a force to be worked with. Think of the brush as a part of you, a part of your hand, and a part of your mind.

    Forcing the brush to move paint around the canvas is not going to get you anywhere. For paint to flow smoothly, especially acrylic, add a bit of water; then the brush can easily move the paint around to where you want it to go. Practicing different strokes with one brush is a wonderful way to get to know how a brush works.

   Tip: Animal Hair brushes are very, very messy and can cause little hairs to fall into the paint on your painting. No one I know wants to spend most of their painting time picking little hairs out of their masterpieces. It's not fun.

   Instead: Go with the synthetic hair brushes. They usually have white, soft, plastic looking hairs.

Animal Hair Brushes

   The hairs tend to fall out all the time. 

Synthetic Hair Brushes

Please go with these brushes, they last longer and are less hard to handle.