PAINTING FINE LINES
A rigger brush is very useful for painting in fine lines, to either construct your painting or other fine line work like details in buildings. The bristles are long and fine so they hold a lot of paint but have a fine tip for the lines. I use one when i’m painting rigging on boats or ships and the radio wire on the fighter aircraft paintings running from the tail fin to the cockpit.
When you buy some canvases you get the stretchers, which come with it, use a ruler and put one of the stretcher’s under each end of the ruler to lift it off the canvas a little, then I use a ruler as a guide so I keep the line straight.
I always have a scrap piece of paper to test first before trying it on the main painting in-case you have too much paint or it’s not quite the right colour.
I also have my trusted Windsor & Newton Cotman size 2 brush…I use it a lot for fine work, like fur on animals or grass. It has probably lost a few bristles now but it works for me and i’m comfortable using it knowing what I can and can’t do with it. I think it a matter of finding brushes you like and can trust to do what you want them to.
By Andrew Searle
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