When you gain more experience with your painting, you will find that you can obtain different looks to your work by using your brushes with different techniques. This can give you positive effects and it can be quite rewarding.
Even with one brush you can do so many things. You can make delicate lines, through to filling in fairly large spaces of your work in fact. This therefore can create wonderful patterns and marks plus different textures which then in turn fire your imagination.
The brushes themselves come in such a wide range in shops and art supply companies today. So you may, in fact, find it daunting to make a choice. Some really are pretty cheap. This may also reflect in the result you actually get. As you may find, you have loose pieces of the brush itself, or handle.
So we have all experienced this. I would suggest that it is better, if you need to do very fine lining or intricate details, that you find yourself a brush that will serve this purpose. Such as one with a point that is intended for fine work.
The flat brush has many bristles and appears to be very square in its actual shape. Very different to a fine brush, as you will find, they will let you fill up with lots of paint as they are with plentiful bristles. This being so, there is little need to keep refilling with paint. They also have the added advantage of covering substantial areas with a flat look.
Your art kit is of vital importance to you personally and you find your own favourite items. Now with the fantastic selection of brushes available, there are so many effects that can be obtained.
Experiment, experiment, experiment and see what you can do with these brushes. You will find it is so easy to get carried away and the time flies by without you realising.
You will soon find something that suits your particular style of painting, although this can vary from time to time. Effects! Well you can use the side of your brush, not necessarily the tip and, of course, it would depend on how much weight you actually put on the brush.
I find that I often use what I would term swirly lines, as you can do this with oils and acrylics, easily using the paint straight from the tube. These are very good for water scenes, but they also adapt well to making lovely patterns. (Good with a thick brush).
How about just painting with a dry brush? This is something I have tried occasionally with the background still visible. Other people, I find, manage to complete paintings simply by using dots. A flexible, flat brush is required to do this.
Personally I find that if you stab with your brush you can obtain a mixture of results. It is nice sometimes when you can see the canvas through your work, using you choice of strokes to advantage.
Whether you use a dry brush, flat brush, side of the brush, do dabs, spots, dashes alternately, swirls, or dots, you can leave all sorts of impressions. Colours play a big part in the paleness or vibrancy of tone. The pressure applied on the brush also has to be taken into account.
If for example you are painting lines thick to thin, you need more pressure for the thick lines, a lighter stroke for the thin. It is all trial and error. So give it a go!
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