Material of the Month: Why Cheap Oil Brushes Aren’t A Bad Idea
[caption id="attachment_3893" align="alignright" width="329"] Cheap oil brushes: Some of my tools are cheap, others not, but they all work.[/caption] What's the most important thing to oil painters after oil colors? The answer is probably the brush. There are many different ways to put color onto the painted surface, but brushes are the most common. I use brushes probably 80% of the time, but not all brushes are created equal, and the surprising thing that I have discovered is that the brand and / or quality of the brush may not matter that much in the grand scheme of things. As a self-taught...