Guide To Essential Art Supplies

Paintbrushes And Paint

You will want at least a set of three basic paintbrushes if you are starting with acrylic paint. These are a size six filbert brush for medium-sized paintings, a flat wash brush of one inch for background painting, and a smaller liner brush for fine details. Filberts are used for general painting as well as smoothing out details. If you are using watercolors, you will also need three brushes. These are a medium or large flat brush used generally for washes, a size eight, ten, or fourteen round brush for general painting, and a size six liner brush for smaller details.

Whether you go with oils, acrylics, or watercolors, you need to acquire some basic paint colors. Obtain at least one red, blue, and yellow! A good starting palette from which you can derive many other colors can feature phthalo blue, cadmium red, and cadmium yellow. These three colors can be mixed to create quite a few others. You can expand your collection of paints as needed.

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