Soft brush for acrylic varnish. What are the best art brushes to buy? For interior decoration and as a hobby

Brushes for painting with acrylic come in different types. A nylon brush has proven itself best, but it is not suitable for all types of work, so it cannot be the only one in an artist’s arsenal. Before buying this or that brush, you should figure out whether it is suitable for acrylic and for specific features specific artist.

Shapes of brushes

You can work with acrylic with a tool of any shape, but each of the brushes is capable of performing a certain amount of work while painting. It is very easy to ruin a painting if you choose the wrong brush shape for certain strokes.

1. Round. This tool is considered universal, suitable for any paints and techniques. They can be used for drawing details or filling, depending on the number of the brush. The round shape is achieved by enclosing the pile in a round-shaped cage.
2. Flat. To create this brush shape, a flat clip is used. Brushes can be wide and narrow, long and short. They are convenient to use for painting large areas of a painting with plain paint, including acrylic.
3. Contour. The shape of these brushes is similar to flat brushes, but the bristles are shorter and wider, making strokes easier to control. Contour brushes are also convenient for creating color brushes.
4. Brush in the shape of a cat's tongue. The shape of such an instrument resembles a dome or oval. It is considered a compromise solution between round and flat brushes, since it leaves different strokes depending on the position. The tool is not suitable for beginners, as its use requires some skill.
5. Linear. To create such a brush, long bristles are used, and the thickness of the tool is very small. The brush is more suitable for inscriptions or very thin, small details.

There are several other types of brushes, such as stencil or type brushes, but they are much less suitable for painting acrylics than the ones described above.

Types of brushes

Both hard and soft brushes are suitable for painting with acrylic paints. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages and is used in certain techniques.

Soft brushes

Such tools, which are mostly made from natural materials, hold paint well and are suitable not only for acrylic, but also for watercolors and gouache. Artists use them to create fine, precise lines or to depict translucent tones. Using a soft brush is convenient for drawing small details.

The best natural, soft brush is considered to be sable. However, acrylic paints easily spoil this type of pile, so its use is not recommended. Alternative option A tassel is considered to be made half of sable and half of synthetic material. Well, a cheaper and more common alternative is a synthetic brush.

Hard brushes

In addition to weightless layers, acrylic paint is used to apply thick strokes. Using acrylic, you can use various relief and rough techniques, which require hard brushes that hold a lot of paint, and the strokes are clearer.

A brush for painting with acrylic should not only be hard, but also elastic and flexible enough so that the strokes are even and do not spoil the picture.

Modern painting tools meet the required specifications and are made from synthetic materials. Depending on the techniques used by the artist, a hard brush can be large or small, have different widths, and handle lengths.

Brush sizes

To determine what size brushes are needed for a particular style of acrylic painting, you need to gain some experience. When choosing a brush number, you should take into account the fact that the numbering may differ for different manufacturers, so having found best option For drawing, you should buy tools from only one company.

The numbering of brushes starts from one and goes up to 16 (sometimes 14). The thickness of the stroke increases accordingly. However, the difference between the brushes is not only in width, but also in the length of the handle. Soft tools are shorter, hard ones are longer, which allows you to draw at some distance from the canvas and better evaluate the picture.

Nylon brush

A nylon brush is considered the best option for beginner artists who prefer acrylic. It is synthetic and comes in many different shapes and sizes.

The main advantages of a nylon bristle brush:

1. Elasticity. The material from which the tool is made has high elastic properties, does not break when bent and is quite elastic and elastic. The strokes of paint that such a brush leaves are smooth and clear. The nylon brush is easy to paint even for beginners, as it is a middle option between hard and soft.
2. Strength. The main problem with natural brushes in acrylic painting is the need to keep them in water. Because of this attitude, the bristles fall out and deteriorate, which, however, does not apply to this synthetic brush. The tool will not last any less if it stays in water for a long time, so it is suitable for acrylic.
3. Easy to care for. Due to the fact that the brush is made of synthetics, it is easy to clean acrylic, which is famous for its quick drying and sticking to the bristles. Natural brushes are very difficult to tidy up, since their structure is not smooth, like nylon. To care for this brush, simply rinse it with running water after use.

It is worth noting that a nylon brush, although very good, cannot be an alternative to all other types of tools. Experienced artists will, in any case, have several other types of brushes in stock, for some specific techniques.

Caring for your brushes

Acrylic paint is different in that no matter what techniques the artist uses and no matter how keen he is on the process, he must ensure that the brushes do not dry out. Acrylic dries very quickly and then the instruments can be considered damaged. To prevent this, you need to keep your brushes in water while painting, which gradually spoils them, but at least does not disable them.

The process of cleaning the brush after painting:

• After finishing work, excess paint must be removed with a rag or thick paper, carefully wiping the brush on it;
• then the brush is lowered into the water, and rotational movements are made, with the help of which the acrylic is removed from the pile;
• the instrument is wiped with a rag and soaped with soap;
• then the soap must be washed off, making sure that it gets between the bristles and under the holder (in order for the brush to last longer, even the slightest remnants of paint must be removed);
• The brush should be rinsed until the water runs clear, after which it is wiped dry and the bristles are left to dry (the tuft should be directed upward, and the brush should first be given the correct shape).

If the acrylic has dried on the brush, you can try to remove it by soaking it in a special cleaning agent, and then carefully remove the remaining paint with a wooden toothpick, after pressing the brush to a hard surface.

In general, for this you should use synthetic brushes. The shape and size are selected individually, but for beginners it is best to purchase several standard brush options. When working with acrylic, great attention should be paid to the care of tools, since the paint dries quickly and spoils the pile.

Acrylic brushes

Acrylic paints emerged in the mid-twentieth century, and since then acrylic painting has dominated the arts and crafts market and forms a significant part of the permanent collections of museums and art galleries. As you begin your journey into the world of acrylic painting, try to purchase the best brushes, choosing the ones that are suitable for your work. Brushes differ in shape, size and composition of the hair bundle, which we describe in detail in a special article:

• Synthetic or natural brushes?

For a less experienced artist, brushes with natural bristles may seem more suitable than those with synthetic bristles. In reality, synthetic brushes are better for acrylic painting. They are usually cheaper, more durable, more durable and resilient compared to natural ones. More importantly, acrylic dye can damage natural hair. For this reason, we recommend that beginning artists choose synthetic brushes. They are produced by most manufacturers in a variety of price categories: from fairly inexpensive ones, such as Painting Brushes (Kirov) or Pinax (China), to the famous Da Vinci brushes.

• Form

Each brush is designed for a specific purpose, but you probably won't need every one.

For example, flat brushes hold a lot of paint and are good for creating broad strokes and fills. The tips and sides can be used for finer lines and small strokes.

Round or pointed brushes are more flexible. They have a convex belly that tapers to a fine point, and are suitable for both detailed work and dense brush strokes when pressing harder on the canvas.

• Size

There are quite a few sizes for each brush shape, from 0000 to 24. Even the best brushes wrong size will be difficult to use. If your painting requires large quantity details, you will need a small round brush. When creating landscapes or other large-format acrylic paintings, it is much easier to work with a large brush. Medium brushes can do a lot of intermediate work.

Brushes for acrylic paints can have both short and long handles. Brushes with longer handles are useful for working at an easel when you are painting from a distance so you can see the whole picture.

• Sets

Brushes can be very expensive. To save a little money, you can purchase a set in which brushes are selected according to shape and size. This can be an excellent choice for beginning painters, allowing them to master the technique of work. various types brushes, and then move on to more expensive options.

You can purchase acrylic brushes in the Peredvizhniki online store, and also select and test the brushes you like with your own hands by visiting our stores in Moscow.

Ability to form a sharp tip;

Elasticity of the hair bundle;

Control over the fluidity of paint, which should flow from the brush in a continuous stream and in the desired consistency.

The brushes presented in the TAIR online store are produced by Art Materials LLC. These brushes are different high quality, a variety of shapes and textures and an affordable price. They are suitable for both professionals and amateurs.

All brushes are carefully controlled at every stage of production.

Our online store offers the following types of brushes:

The core brush is the queen of watercolor brushes. The kolonok is a predatory fur-bearing animal from the mustelidae family. Its homeland is Siberia, China, Korea - regions with harsh winters. The peculiarity of this hair is its spindle-shaped shape. Being very thin and elastic, with a soft and long tip, it is ideal for professional brushes.

Designed for working with all types of paints: watercolor, gouache, tempera, acrylic, oil.

High-quality squirrel hair comes from the tail of the Siberian squirrel. The hair is very soft and thin. Squirrel hair brushes, like core brushes, have excellent paint flow control, but lower elasticity. The conical shape of the squirrel's hair from base to tip resembles the tip of a rapier.

Brushes for “heavy paints” are evaluated according to only one parameter - the thicker the paint, the harder the hair should be. The best bristle brushes are made from Chinese hog hair. Elastic, strong bristles are processed, and only boiled and bleached bristles are used to make professional-quality brushes.

Following elasticity the most important characteristic is a split tip - it contributes to good filling of the brush and even application of paint.

These brushes are designed for working with “heavy paints”: oil, acrylic, tempera, gouache.

Within a few recent years Synthetic brushes have taken the artistic market by storm, as their price is quite reasonable and the results of working with these brushes are excellent.

The excellent elasticity of synthetic hair makes it an excellent tool for liquid dyes. It is much stronger, although it does not hold paint as well as natural fiber.

These brushes are much easier to clean from acrylic paints, so most often they are chosen by people who are passionate about decoupage, painting, decoration, design and interior decoration, that is, all those areas of creativity where acrylic paints are indispensable.

Table for selecting a brush for the type of paint

Any professional artist will tell you that to create a real masterpiece it is very important to carefully choose not only paints, but also the canvas, and even workplace with the right lighting, but the main tool for work - brushes - must be chosen especially carefully.

The numerous variety of brushes that can be seen on modern market, is caused not only by the difference in the availability of raw materials for manufacturers and the consumer capabilities of the population, but also by the variety of techniques and colors that each artist chooses according to his own taste. Everyone decides for themselves which brushes are best for acrylic paints, however, there are also brushes that are not at all suitable for painting with acrylics.

Material

When choosing a brush for any type of paint, it is important that the tool fits well in the artist’s hand, being, as it were, an extension of it, and at the same time has a certain strength, which will save it during prolonged or careless use. For greater durability It is advised to choose those brushes that are equipped with a solid metal clip– there is no chance that it will accelerate over time.

If the material of the handle depends only on the convenience of the artist himself, then the material of the hair bundle is critical to obtain the expected result. In particular, most artists generally prefer brushes made of natural hair, however, when working with acrylic-based paints, they are not used. The fact is that the polymer part of the dye, very quickly hardening at the base of the hair bundle, as soon as possible renders the product unusable, making it impossible to draw with it.

A possible solution to the problem would be to constantly keep the hair bundle in water, however, such conditions are destructive to natural hair.

Most experts agree that beginning artists working with acrylic need, first of all, synthetic brushes, in particular nylon ones. They are much less susceptible to the harmful effects of acrylic, which, when hardened, causes individual hairs to lose their elasticity, but they also need to be handled carefully, in particular, be sure to wash thoroughly after each drawing session.

With proper care, such a tool can serve its owner for quite a long time, but by professionals it is still not considered a universal drawing tool. To expand the quantity art technician When used for painting, brushes based on natural bristles are most often used.

Why nylon?

Although in the arsenal of an artist who has long and fruitfully painted with acrylic, there will probably be brushes made of other materials, beginners are almost always advised to first use nylon. It makes sense to understand why this particular material and not any other:

• High elasticity and resilience. It should be noted that nylon brushes are generally considered a middle ground between hard and soft brushes, and therefore are regarded as universal and well suited for any beginning artist, not just those who paint with acrylic paints.

• Thanks to these properties, the hair bundle leaves clear and smooth strokes on canvas, while the material withstands repeated bending quite well and does not break, which is very appropriate in the case when its owner has still not decided on the optimal pressing force.

It is noted that brushes of this type are, in principle, much easier to paint, although they do not leave much room for artistic maneuver.

• High resistance to water. The specificity of protecting the hair part of the brush from the harmful effects of quickly hardening acrylic lies in the active use of water, and synthetic materials, unlike natural hair, withstand constant exposure to water much better. Because hair will quickly deteriorate without regular rinsing, the ability to soak in water for long periods of time is key for acrylic tools.

• Ease of maintenance. No matter how optimized nylon is for the use of acrylic, the polymer part of the paint still sticks to it, however, here too the synthetic brush has a clear advantage, namely: the smoothness of its bristles. Natural hair has bristles with a certain roughness, which makes it quite difficult to clean them from pieces of hardened acrylic. In the case of nylon, acrylic may harden, but this happens on the surface of the bristles without reliable adhesion to them, so you just need to rinse the tool well to make it suitable for use again.

Choice of shape and rigidity

Choosing nylon as a hair bun material does not mean that the final verdict has been made - after all, you need to choose at least several tools in order to achieve various artistic effects. To do this, preference is given to brushes of different shapes and elasticity:

• The most universal choice in terms of shape is a round brush, but due to its versatility, it does not allow any effect to be performed with the highest quality.
• Brushes with flat hair tufts are designed for more convenient painting of large, monochromatic areas.

• Contour brushes are somewhat similar to them, but their beam width is much smaller, so artists often use them to draw color transitions.
• A tricky tool is a brush shaped like a cat's tongue - wide but with a very pointed end, which makes it both round and flat, but for a beginner, working with it fully is usually too difficult.

• Finally, linear brushes have extra-long bristles and are usually used for writing calligraphic texts.
• As for elasticity, here too the tools differ, depending on the needs. Soft bristles are better suited for neat, fine drawing of contours and other small details. Hard products are chosen more often for a relief design, as well as for applying large, bold strokes.

It should be noted that differences are also observed in the size of the pile. Each manufacturer indicates the size as a number from 1 to 14-16, however, practice shows that for different manufacturers the same brush number may correspond to a different actual size of the hair bundle.

For this reason, choosing a tool by size should be done not so much by number, but by eye.

Care

Even constantly keeping brushes in water when working with acrylic does not guarantee one hundred percent cleanliness of the hair bundle after the end of the session, and if the paint dries completely, you can safely throw away the tool. Therefore, every time after use it is necessary to clean the product, even if it is made of nylon:

• First of all, the pile must be carefully wiped with a special cloth or at least a piece of thick paper.
• After this, the hair bundle is soaked in clean water - the tool needs to be turned several times to make sure that the water has penetrated everywhere.
• Wet hairs are wiped again with a dry cloth, and then washed with ordinary soap so that it even gets under the clip and carefully washed again, this time under running water.

• The brush is considered washed only when the water flowing from it looks completely transparent.
• After this, the pile must be dried naturally, but before that it must be wiped dry. In this case, it is necessary to give the hair bun the correct shape for it, because if it dries out in a disheveled form, it will be quite difficult to correct the situation.

To learn how to clean your brushes if they are dry after painting, see the following video.

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• The bunch of pile is quite dense and is collected from hairs of various lengths, which allows you to achieve the effect of a capillary mesh. The required amount of liquid is absorbed into it and at the same time it is clearly released when dipped into a jar of powder. As a result, due to the increased fluidity of the monomer, balls of ideal texture are created.
• Due to increased elasticity, after each application of the substance to the nail plate, the bundle returns to its original state.
• Thanks to the needle-sharp tip, you can create a neat and even smile line. With its help you can work with small balls of mass.
• Before the instrument is put on sale, the pile is impregnated with special compounds that prevent powder particles from sticking to the hairs. To do this, before first use brush you need to carefully knock it out on your finger, shaking off the dust from the dried product. After this it will become soft again.

Features of the shape of acrylic brushes

Based on the shape of the base, there are round, oval and flat models.

• Round products are distinguished by a thickened belly and a thin tip. This is the classic form, the most popular when working with crumbly material. A lot of liquid accumulates on it, so the balls of the substance become more fluid. The sharp end is optimal for drawing a clear, even smile line and laying out small volumes of plastic mass.
• The oval instrument also has a dense, massive belly, but the tip is like a dome. It is convenient for them to apply a thin layer of material near the cuticle and make a French cut.
• The flat model is good for liquid mixture. It will not absorb much liquid and thus will not dilute the substance even more.
• Miniature brush ideal for small nails and acrylic sculpting of graceful elements.

When choosing, pay attention not only to reviews craftsmen, but also by the appearance and materials of the instrument.

1. Take a closer look at how elastic the bundle is and how dense its base is. Density affects the volume of absorbed monomer and the uniformity of its release during simulation.
2. The harder the handle, the better. The ideal option would be a wooden one, but you can also purchase a cheaper model with a plastic handle.
3. According to the form and appearance goodacrylic brushes(especially round ones) should look like a candle flame. They should not have pits, bulges or protruding different sides pile.
4. U good models There is no seam in the fastening that holds the hair bun. Our advice: choose a product with a solid metal frame. They are much more reliable (lint will fall out less often) and look prettier. The hairs should be well glued at the point of attachment so that you do not lose them while working.
5. To work with acrylic material, purchase products from sizes 5 to 10. Models No. 8 are especially popular - with their help you can quickly lay out 2-3 balls.
6. When choosing, be guided by the dimensions of the purchased tassels . Too large will have a bad effect on the quality of the procedure - you will get tired and will not be able to work quickly with the tool. Moderate size is the key to the product sitting comfortably in your hand.

Don't try to save money on tools. Expensive options often last much longer than cheap ones, which can quickly thin out or become fluffy. A high-quality product can become an assistant for as long as six months, even if the technician is very busy.

Depending on the type of pile, the characteristics of the tool will change.

1. Products made from soft wool of marten, kolinsky or sable are considered the best for extension But also the price they have the highest.
2. Squirrel models are a little worse - they are not so elastic, the hairs sometimes break. But with proper skill, they can also make magnificent marigolds. Squirrel tools are useful for modeling, depicting miniature elements and conveying translucent tones.
3. Tough, flexible synthetic tassels very convenient for applying large strokes in a relief technique.

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