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What types of Brushes for artist acrylic Painting on cavas?

I haven't been happy with my current brushes not even sure what brand they are. I was having a prolem with my paint bushes leaving streak marks. Sometimes im ok with that but when im laying a background that is not what I want. I do mostly abstract collage acrylic painting. I know that makes a difference in the types of brushes to use. Im not needing portrait brushes. I work also on larger stretched canvases. Do i go bristle, synthetic? Im not sure. Any suggestions. I use golden paint and mediums. Thanks

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Synthetic ....especially white nylon. Those brushes work well with acrylic paints.

    Bristle brushes are too stiff even when use with water.

    And try to use more flow medium when you paint. You can also use Golden's "fluid acrylics" they come in bottle. Because Golden's heavy body acrylics are too thick and not self leveling....it will leave brush marks.

    Good luck.

  • 5 years ago

    You'll find a difference, generally the more pronounced difference is with the more expensive pigments. Pigments are the actual colour in the paint. Some are man made by chemical process, such as Phthalocyanine Blue. Some are naturally occurring such as cadmium. The price of these will vary in an artists range, generally man made colours will be cheaper, because well, they're man made. the natural colours will vary on how difficult to refine and how rare they are. Earth colours are common, so should be lower priced, other colours will vary on the above factors, often topping out with an outrageously expensive cobalt violet. Manufacturers have different strategies for controlling the price point. A hobby type paint will often replace expensive pigments with cheaper ones, normally denoted by the word hue, sometimes they will bulk out the paint with fillers, these can be all sorts of additives. Generally artists paints claim not to do this. Some claim just to use pigment and oil, this is rarely true. Youmight well find that many of the hobby grade paints differ very little from artist grade when you are dealing with synthetic or man made colours Because the raw materials are cheap, there are little in the way of savings to be made. the only difference you might find is in consistency and milling. However you might find there is no substitute for an artists grade cadmium red. I would advise trying a few of your staple colours in artist grade and see how they work for you. If I were to advise you something strongly, it would be to buy big-bigger-biggest tubes of paint. It'll be a saving in the long run, and it'll encourage you to be freer and more experimental in pushing your painting forwards. I use a mixture of artist and second grade paints, I always use expensive lake colours, the best I can afford, yet for me the best sap green is the cheap Roweny Georgian, an even cheaper colour I love is Sennelier Etude turquoise. All the best, B P.S. Whilst referring to my own painting I'm talking about oil paint, but the same still applies, the real difference is acrylics use a plastic polymer binder, oils use oil as a binder

  • 1 decade ago

    You should use synthetic brushes, they're softer and are designed for acrylics, I forget what brand my acrylic brushes are because I've mostly been doing oil painting, but they have orange fibers and the handles are green. Go to your local art supply store like Loomis and find the brushes labeled for use with acrylics. I wouldn't recommend ones that are meant for both acrilyc and watercolours because they're too soft. I would also try some different acrylic mediums.

  • 1 decade ago

    i use creative mark pro stroke synthetic white nylon and I am very happy with them and they're cheap! They hold their shape well and are cheap so you can replace if you give your brushes a beating. you can get them online at jerry's artarama, and they have sales on them a lot.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i bet if you went to micheals craft store they can help u

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