3 Colours Up Tips – Paintbrushs and How to Buy Them
August 10, 2011 by elromanozo
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Nice article well written and detailed, will more in depth articles for each category follow?
Yes, Romain has done a thorough job of evaluating many of the popular brands of paint and paint brushes.
Thanks for the reply that is superb.
Question: Should you store your brushes tip up or laying down?
I’ve heard different statements of which way is better.
I prefer tip down, but that is a personal preference.
Many say tip down… But it’s often impractical. In any case, a good brush ALWAYS (and I mean ALWAYS) keeps its point if you take good care of it, whatever position it’s stored in… provided it’s not resting on its tuft of course.
BoW Romain
I use Ikea kitchen magnet bars and hold my brushes tip down there with the assist of a paper-clip.
hm how do I post pics?
great advice, I go through to many brushes so these tip (no pun intended) will be most useful.
I’m reading this at 2 in the morning … dedication ?
Anyway, thanks to Romain I paint very differently now and my models look better than they did before (and my brushes do last longer too) so thanks 🙂
Thank you once again for this. All this time I’ve been man handling my brushes. No wonder they lost the point and looked bent. Loading the brush to much and letting it dry seems to be the cause of most of my problems.
Another sweet article!
Without a doubt your best article yet.
I love your videos but this is what people need. Most good painters know most if not all but I think that is irrelevant, Anyone who has a ticket (licence) that is worth it’s salt must renew it and ‘relatively’ often. So it’s always good to review.
Great work man.
Thank you for all your kindnesses, guys !
There are more articles to come…
BoW Romain
Look forward to the next in the series
I only recently discovered that paint touching the ferrule (didn’t know its called that) indeed ruins my brushes.. Why haven’t you come in my life earlier Romain! 😉
The men I meet often tell me that…
Eh, it’s all in a day’s work !
BoW Romain
Nice review thank you. Have you tried taklon fibre brushes? Got a tip about them from a professional watercolour artist who has given up his sables. The short ones suffer from what you said but the long bristle flat i tried was brilliant for base coating large area’s. Smooth even thin coat. Yet to try a pointy one. I recently tried the ink cleaner from the link below on my hard squirrel dry brushes. Cleaned them up brilliantly and the bristles while still bent are soft and subtle again. Tried it then on my old sables and they became usable… Read more »
Very interesting, @thebaron ! Capital thinking ! I’m from a time without brush cleaners… A time when synthetic brushes were worth even less than what they are now, and taklon didn’t brush even our minds… If this works, and it can indeed give a second youth to your brushes, I’m all for it ! I would, however, try to focus on taking care of brushes, and on getting brushes that don’t deteriorate too quickly, so you don’t have to clean them in a special brew all the time. I hear that if you leave your (clean) old animal hair brushes… Read more »
And all that time I thought it was me wrecking those fine detail brushes…
I was like you, once… Well, actually, most of the time, I can’t be bothered to wash my brushes, so I keep wrecking them. I buy new ones every year or so, knowing perfectly well they could last a great deal longer… But it’s all relative : I spend a good deal on minis, as we all do, so why not spend some money getting quality brushes ? Sure, I could wash them better, and they’d last for years, but I’m not so poor that I can’t spend a couple dozen euros each year instead of every two or three… Read more »
Excellent. I have been looking for that kind of article for ages ! I have found at least two things i dont do right. My next brush has a chance to live happily ever after …
I have since brought some Winsor and Newton series 7 brushes, then I found out that there are 2 types of them within the range, the water colour and the Miniature. Sadly I bought the water colour ones and had to reorder for the miniature series 7. I plan to send the water colour ones back to Amazon for a refund, but your post is making me wonder. Whilst I understand that we are all different and like different things and work in different ways, is there a dramatic advantage to just using the miniature series 7? I only ask… Read more »
Very nice the best brushes I have are two Tamaya bamboo brushes