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Reply To: Miniature paint brushes – What do you recommend?

February 23, 2021 at 8:14 am #1615030

amachan

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It is true that sables wear out more with acrylics than they do with watercolours or oils. But, if you only use them with water-based non-metallic acrylics and clean them well after use, they can still last you a long while. The biggest problem with synthetics vs. sable with me is that synthetics don’t hold moisture nearly as well as sables do, it’s just the nature of the material. Well made synthetics will therefore hold their point a lot longer than sable does. One thing I have at one point been thinking about is mixed brushes with both synthetic and sable in it, like the series 401 from Rosemary & Co.

https://www.rosemaryandco.com/acrylic-brushes/red-sable-blend-acrylic/pointed-sable-mixture

The reason why I won’t recommend sables with metallics is that metallics have tiny metallic particles in them. Some brands have bigger ones than others, but still. This wears out the point of brushes really quickly and I will always recommend using cheap brushes for this, preferably synthetics as they do withstand this a lot longer.