At Craft-Ease™ , we support art therapy by offering high quality tools, as well as a detailed paint brush guide to help you make the most of our kits.
While there are many types of paint brushes and different paint brush sizes, we’ll cover the most popular, explain what each one is used for, and how to choose the right paint brush.
1. Round: This paint brush can help create thick-to-thin strokes as well as watercolor wash effects.
2. Liner: The linter brush is perfect for details, thin lines, precision, outlining, or decorative lines.
3. Flat: Flat brushes are often used to color in blocks, shade, blend, and highlight. It can create sharp, square shape, and crip edges.
4. Angular Shader: This brush is used for tight shading, curved strokes, and stroke work.
5. Wash/Glaze: This brush has large, broad bristles and is ideal for washes, base-coating, applying glazes, finishes, and sweeping strokes of large areas.
6. Filbert/Oval: This brush has a round shape, which helps to create strokes with soft edges.
Our guide has all of the best brushes for paint by number kits—for further guidance, visit our painting tutorial, and make sure to browse our wide selection to get started!
Having over 25 years of experience and being featured in industry's most well known magazines including Professional Artists, Cowboys & Indians and Southwest Art, Tracy is a celebrity fauvist painter most noted for her works surrounding wildlife. You'd love her bold strokes of bright colors and how she brings soulful animals to life through paintings!
Featuring Tracy's "Horse and Stars" also available in Diamond Art Kit
“Be confident with your brushwork!”
But the most important thing is to take your time - don not worry about the mistakes and just enjoy the therapeutic experience of painting!
Some paintings may have used splatter effects which can be too small the area to paint on. Worry not, just cover it up! Then, you can follow the below steps to see how to recreate the splatter effects!
Just a last little tip from Tracy before you hang your masterpiece on the wall. If you are not using a frame, paint all the edges and sides of your canvas with the same painting background color. That will render a really neat and professional masterpiece on your wall!
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