How to choose the good brush ? Paternership

Choose a brush for painting in oil

For oil, Cezanne said: "Painting and drawing are done at the same time." So we need several types of brushes and different quality of hair.

To choose your brush to paint in oil, you must take into account three criteria :
1. the paint thickness : more or less fluid to make glazes and impasto,
2. media quality : fine grain of the canvas,
3. the technique used : solid color painting or accuracy of detail.

There are different types of brushes for oil painting:
- Flat brush for the funds and opaque parts,
- Spent curved brush for a more modulated,
- Round brush for detail
- Brush-range for fades.

You can choose between different qualities of hair:

- Bristle bent or straight to the canvas preparation, placement of funds and setting colors
- Fine animal hair (Martret, Polecat, Kevrin) or extra-fine (Marten, Kolinsky sable) to overlay multiple layers of paint or make details.

The handles of brushes for oil painting are always longer. In oil painting, the artist is in fact more distant from its support than is the watercolorist to his sheet.

The different peaks for oil are:
- Flat: For funds, the juice first phase of implementation, again.
- Long Flat: Providing material for the establishment of the masses, colors, money, solids.
- Round: For expression details, contours, alterations, finishes.
- Rounded: For performance, the models, again, finishes, glazes.
- Almonds: Running late stage, modeled, retouching finishes.
- On camber: Reaching out, nervous and quick. For material paste.
- Fan: For molten, blur, glazes.

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Choose a brush to watercolor painting

Watercolor brush provides unparalleled sensuality and voluptuousness. It will meet as a musical instrument to your every move.

If the quality of the shell and the neck contributes to the perfect balance of the brush, the hairs of his art are selected for their ability to absorb and hold water permanently.
Extremely fine, soft hair red sable and squirrel bend at the slightest touch of the hand, broadened into fan, giving a bold, then found a perfect shape, returning to their original position.
The squirrel hair are the finest one can find. The small space between each coat allows the fluid to go easily and produce Destouches very long on paper. Thus, the hair gathered spontaneously to form a superb point.
The Red Sable offers a remarkable strength and elasticity. It is ideal for producing very fine detail and provide relief and intensity to your creations. The sable brushes are more color and less water. The handle of the brush should be short and well balanced for optimum accuracy. The body must have high mechanical and chemical resistance, particularly to oxidation. All these elements together offer a real gem for watercolorist.

The various tips for watercolor are:
- Extra-short: Alterations and transplanted miniature
- Tapered: Extra-fine point. Pointe nervous. Work fast and accurate.
- Long thin: For a delicate expression. Fine details and finishes.
- Fine: "belly" Running full general. Excellent precision and capillarity.
- Long and extra long: For long thin lines and constant flow.
- Mop on pen: Very large reserve, perfect point. To wash and detail.
- Oval Mop: Lavis, solids, pointed or edged. large areas.
- Plat: To wash and funds solids, or related edges.
- Tank skirt: Pointe with perfect reserve. for fine detail and nets.

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