Introduction of Art Supplies Paint Brush
Oil paintbrush: It is a special painting tool for oil painting. Generally, the penholder is mostly wooden, and the brush hair is pig bristles. There are also a few wolves and chemical fibers. According to the shape of the pen tip, there are 12 types of round pens, flat pens, fan-shaped pens, and line pens. The sizes are 1#-12# from small to large, and there are also some large models. Oil paint brushes play the most basic function in the process of oil painting. Handy brushes can bring interest to the artist’s work. The choice of oil paintbrush depends on the painting technique. Different textures, shapes, and models of brushes have different functions.
How to use Art Supplies oil paints and oil paintbrushes
Oil color is a special paint for oil painting, which is made by mixing and grinding pigment powder with oil and glue. Mostly sold in the market are tube installations, and they can also be self-made.
The basic components of oil paints, like other paints, are made up of colorants, extender pigments, vehicles,s and certain auxiliary materials such as plasticizers, stabilizers, retarders, or driers. The pigment powder used by ancient masters mostly came from soil and minerals. The other part is derived from plants or animals.
Oil painting material is a painting material formed by using transparent vegetable oil to blend pigments and creating an artistic image on fabric, paper, wood, and other materials that have been made. It originated and developed in Europe, and has become an important worldwide painting material in modern times. Tempera in European paintings before the 15th century was the predecessor of oil painting materials. While using tempera paint, many painters continue to look for a more ideal blending agent.
How to use an oil paintbrush
The oil paintbrush should be soaked for ten minutes with warm water and detergent (household detergent has a strong effect on oil cleaning) after using it every day, but do not soak the pen barrel, otherwise, the paint will be soaked. If the color of the pen base is not cleaned, it will accumulate after a long time, and the length of the pen bristles will be shortened invisibly. The second is to insist on washing after every day. Thoroughly clean the color on the pen, squeeze out the water, wrap it in newspaper according to the shape of the pen, and keep it as easy to use as a new one every time you paint.
