Decorative Painting Brushes
Answers
to the Quick Quiz Brush Up (Part 2)
Round Ferrule Decorative Painting
Brushes
Brushes with round ferrules vary according to the length
of bristles, roundness of the body, and shape of the point. (What's
a ferrule?)
(Note: The actual fiber that the bristles are made from
would be a separate variable to consider when choosing decorative
painting brushes.)
Rounds have a full belly shape that holds much
paint, and is perfect for stroke-work such as comma-, crescent-, or
S-strokes, or other long flowing strokes. Rounds also come to a fine
point, suitable for detail work.
Other brushes with round ferrules,
like the ones below, have a straighter,
less full, brush shape.
Detail brushes and spotters have a few short
bristles that come to a tiny point. The shorter hairs bend very little, and so provide great control when
painting small details.
The long bristles
of liners and even longer bristles of script liners hold
more paint but bend more, so they are more suited to painting continuous
fluid
lines. When the tip of a liner brush or script liner is drawn across a
surface, a thin paint simply flows down the bristles like a pen.
The longer the bristles, the longer the line that can be painted. The
shorter the bristles, the greater the control.
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Spotter and/or Detail |
Round
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Liner
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Script Liner
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Spotter and/or Detail
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| P.S. The little *trick* here is that 2 of the
decorative brush types listed are really referring to the same
kind of brush. |
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