Brushes for these small scale projects by necessity need to be small, but that isn't really my brush tip.
My biggest tip is to always buy good quality brushes....
But they don't have to be expensive. Where I live there is a Hobby Lobby store within a 10 minute drive, and they quite frequently have good quality artist brushes on sale at 50% off.
On the weeks they don't have them on sale, you are often able to print their 40% off coupon, and get at least one at a time for a lot less.
The second tip, is that when the bristles become frayed and ugly (kind of like that one on the left there) don't try trimming them. The bristles are made in such a way that trimming them will often cause the brush to not work as well.
If you have a random bristle, that can easily be plucked out of the way.
As you can see, I have several different shapes and sizes for several different appplications.
I probably buy 4 or 5 brushes a year, just becuase the chemicals in the paint and cleaner can really take their toll on the bristles.
That green Ford Torino, with the lime green line, did you do it with a paint brush or a spray?
ReplyDeleteThe stripe on the torino was done with a spray can and tape.
ReplyDeleteI painted the whole car silver, then faded on the lime green color with a spray can. When that dried applied a strip of masking tape down the side of the car, and painted over everything the dark green.
When the tape came off, I had the faded stripe down the side.