Brush Techniques for Acrylic Painting: Pt. 1

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Melody on behalf for Expert Village. I'm going to show you how to use some of the tools that I describe to you and see if we can't make some designs on this paper so you see what some of the brushes do when they are loaded with paint. I've mixed in a little of dark color here and I'm going to grab some other little dabs here so that we can you them in a second. We describe an awful lot of brushes but we talked alot about the scumbling brush that also have some other names. Don't just take it and scoop all the paint that you can tap it in just tap into the paint. And when you see when its on the bristles but not clumped up then tap it into your canvass or paper or whatever your using and this angle is a little difficult but what were trying to make here is maybe a little foreground or a little foliage. We need to have some water on hand so that we can rinse out the brush. There are also different products that you can purchase cleaners that are for strictly for acrylic paints and you can get them at your craft stores any place that pertains to painting. The condition are very good for your brushes. I'm just using this straight water to aim. One thing is that you don't want your brush to lay around with paint on it. If you see any evidence of paint what so ever when your careful go along the bristles and the ends you just don't want to go like that, because all the bristles all separate it tears up your brush pretty easy. Some of the brushes are $25. 00, and you really don't want to wreck those. In the next segment I'll show you how to use a couple more brushes and then we'll start looking at composition."