How To Choose Acrylic Paint Brushes

The type of brush you use plays a critical part in how your painting turns up. It is important to choose quality brushes to insure that your painting will come out the way you would like it to turn up. The paintbrush will be your magic wand for weaving colors across the canvas. 

Paintbrushes for acrylics come in many different shapes and sizes. The shapes and sizes of the brushes you choose to work with will depend mainly on how large you want to work, and how detailed you want to get. Take a look:

Choose Different Acrylic Brushes For Different Painting Purposes

                                               

Acrylic brush shapes include rounds, pointed rounds, long flat, short flat, bright, filbert, angular flat, fan brush, and a rigger or detail round. Rounds are used for detailed works. Long flats are used when applying layers. It is great at painting straight edges. Short flat or bright brushes are good for straight lines but they require shorter strokes than long flat brushes. The filbert brush allows you to paint tapered strokes and soft edges. The fan brush is great when painting skies or leaves of a tree. Lastly, the rigger is used for painting very fine lines and detailed works. I can give a detailed description and uses of the acrylic paintbrushes in my coming posts.