Useless post about brushes

14 February 2008 in art materials by David | No comments

Kim writes:

[D]o you have any bristle brushes that you favor?  I am very frustrated trying to find good bristles anymore…even so-called high-end brushes can have problems quickly with stray hairs or not cupped properly..not holding their shape…hard to control. Perhaps I should be switching to softer brushes toward the finish…but I like using the strength of a bristle.

I’m not a great source on bristle brushes. People who seem to know what they are talking about usually agree only that it’s really hard to find good bristles these days, and that a good batch from one manufacturer doesn’t have much to do with the whether the next batch will be any good.

I wish I had a better answer for you, but I really just have the same frustrations that you do. That’s why I haven’t written any posts on the subject at my blog. I do tend to use synthetic sables for the later stages of most work.

So do any readers know of any reliably good brands of bristle brushes?  

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