How to choose brushes for painting Automatic translate

Once upon a time to buy a good brush was quite difficult. In the stores and stationery departments of the Soviet era, there were only skinny bathes of white bristles of unknown origin. It was impossible to carry out a thin smear with such a brush. Watercolor paint dripped from it with a muddy puddle, and the paper was scratched. By the way, it is worth recalling the colors themselves. Bricks such in a cardboard box, solid, dry…

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Tassels were ordered to the capital on business trip relatives. Sometimes, very rarely, they managed to get a treasure in their city - a squirrel brush, soft, fluffy. It was especially difficult to acquire a large thick squirrel brush. And core ones were a dream at all…

Now is another matter. Ruffles and now you can buy in the store, they are very cheap. The cheapest are made of unknown. And those that can really draw something worthwhile, you still need to search and choose correctly.

Oddly enough, hair brushes are, oddly enough, pony horses. It sounds exotic and tempting, but they work little with gouache paints. Too soft. Not elastic enough. Wipe off quickly.

The same can be said of goat brushes. Soft, do not gather when wet in a bundle with a sharp tip. Unless they paint over large spaces - they take a lot of water and paint.

Squirrels are good. Gathered with a sharp tip, give an elegant smear with a clear edge. And the colors capture enough. For work with watercolor - just right. True, their elasticity is sometimes not enough, and when writing with gouache, the brushes from the squirrel tails are wiped and deteriorate quite quickly - it is a pity.

Column brushes (animal hair column) are considered the best for watercolor painting, and for gouache, and for oil. Elastic, strong, with a pile going to a sharp tip. The drawback - if it is a drawback - is one: they are dear. Look for core brushes in specialist art stores.

Hard bristles of different sizes are also needed. For painting with oil paints, acrylic. For gouache, when it is a little dry and you need to mix it with water…

Now on sale there are brushes combining very good qualities - strength, durability, elasticity - with a low price. These are nylon brushes. You will recognize them by the light shine of the hair and its reddish color. With a set of paint, the tip of such a brush, as expected, is sharp, and a good smear is obtained. Synthetic brushes come in different sizes and shapes, round and flat. In school goods stores you will find two or three sizes that are quite suitable for work, and in shops for artists - professional brushes and sets are somewhat more expensive.

For watercolor and gouache - round brushes.

For oil, gouache, acrylic, tempera are suitable both round and flat. It depends on what task they must complete. Paint over the background or work through the details… And the sizes are needed different. However, usually two or three pieces are enough for work: one round, thin, the other up to a centimeter thick, and still flat, from a stiffer hair.

The length of the brush is more convenient for you or your child, usually twenty centimeters, so that it enters a box with paints or a pencil case.

And remember, the brushes must be washed after work. If you write with acrylic paints, you simply ruin them if there is paint on your hair. Do not leave the brushes in the bank with the hair down and generally store them so that the hair remains bent. Treat your artist’s instrument with care and it will last you a long time.