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The Right Brushes for Oil Painting! How to choose brushes for painting?

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The correct size and quality of brushes does have an effect on the paintings made. You have to have good knowledge of choosing to buy right type of brushes for making art. Experiencing so many different brushes I am sharing that painting with oil really needs good quality brushes other wise the hair soon start dropping and give you irregular strokes. my old art materials and few precious brushes used for oil paintings varnishing oil paintings needs different brush stippling technique needs somewhat hard brush writing calligraphy has fine hair brushes pressure strokes for oil paintings on canvas fine good quality brushes for writing texts symbols different strokes different types and sizes of brushes are needed  Paintings are viewed by us as a replica of nature and colours visible are some how related to colours seen in our surroundings. But many times we see paintings with rough strokes and uneven finishes.   This gives a result of unattractive artworks. Using appropriate and ...

Few Tips to Paint Using Water Colours

Water colours are the most used style of painting and many famous landscapes are done suing this style of painting. Very often we see that this technique though looks simple on trying we do not get good results and we stop using this style of painting. Let us discuss a few tips for painting better using water colours. First of all water is liquid and care has to be taken that the work area is kept clear of children. Pets also are very much attracted to art materials and have a tendency to enter announced. Hence to avoid mess one must keep the work area cleared and clean before starting to paint. Lots of rags and sponges to absorb excess water must be kept handy. This technique requires strong hand control and it is very difficult to direct the flow of water. Using good quality paints will help to bring good results otherwise using cheap art materials and you end up with a lighter green and paler blues! Any paper can do but using hand made paper has given best results with water colours...