The Biggest PROBLEM Beginners have with their PAINT HANDLING and BRUSHWORK

Brushwork is fundamental in the appearance of the painted surface. Most people think that one only needs to get the right color at the right place but there is an almost infinite number of ways to apply the same color at the same spot and this is where the difference between beginners and masters lies.
Typically, a beginner will use a very limited selection of paint application techniques: the movement of the brush will most likely come from the fingers and the brush is usually held like a pencil, near the ferrule, which limits the amplitude of the stroke. Very often, the angle of the brush related to the canvas is close to 90°and the pressure is usually stronger than needed, similar to writing.
Obviously, we all went through this and it’s perfectly normal to have a more limited range of techniques at first. For a beginner, you see, painting is so new that it feels reassuring to start with a paint handling technique that feels familiar, that’s why the most common thing is to to hold the brush like a pencil. Everybody knows how to write and draw with a pencil so, when you take a paintbrush in your hand, it feels natural to hold it like a pencil.
And let’s say it right away, it’s fine ! This way of holding the brush is perfectly adapted for details and finitions, the only problem is… not everything can be about details and precision. Imagine that you visit a museum and can only look at the paintings through a magnifying glass, that would be a very poor experience because you’d miss the whole context.

Chapters:
00:00 The problem most beginners have
01:45 78,732 ways to apply the same color
at the same spot
06:44 Break
07:11 Control the amount of paint in your brush
07:45 Visualize your brush stroke
08:53 Not happy? Scrape it off!
09:03 Tight vs Loose
10:35 Use all the potential of each brush
11:07 Pick the right brush

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I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor by Chris Zabriskie and That Kid in Fourth Grade Who Really Liked the Denver Broncos - licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/honor/

Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/
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The material I use most of the time (not necessarily in this video) :

Drawing
Equipement
✓ Kneaded eraser
✓ Plumb line
✓ Small mirror
✓ An old synthetic brush
✓ Masking tape
✓ Cutter
✓ Sandpaper or sanding block
✓ Mahlstick or Hand rest (DIY)
✓ Level ruler
Graphite
✓ Pencils 2H, HB and 2B
Charcoal
✓ If available: Nitram charcoals (H, HB and B)
✓ Square charcoals
✓ Natural charcoal box
Black and white chalk
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
✓ Square Conté noir : HB and 2B
✓ Chalk or pencil holder
✓ Pencil sketch Conté Pierre noire : H and HB
Sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté : Blood and blood Medici
✓ Crayon Polychromos Faber-Castel : sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
Oil painting
Palette
(Extra-fine paint, recommended brands depending on availability: Lefranc Bourgeois, Winsor and Newton, Royal Talens Rembrandt)
✓ Titanium white PW6
✓ Yellow ochre PY42
✓ Burnt Sienna PR101 or PBr7
✓ Venetian red or English red PR101
✓ Permanent Alizarin crimson (Attention: do not use the traditional pigment, which is not very light-fast) PV19 or PR177 or Quinacridone Rose PV19
✓ Cobalt teal blue PG50
✓ French ultramarine blue PB29
✓ Raw umber PBr7
✓ Burnt umber PBr7
✓ Ivory Black PBk9
Brushes
✓ About ten filbert hog bristle brushes sizes n° 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
✓ Some flat brushes
✓ Round sable brush or round Kolinsky sable n° 4, 8, 10, 12 (from the size of the nail (about one inch) or synthetic imitation
Medium
✓ Linseed stand oil
✓ Odourless mineral spirits
✓ Safflower oil
Surface
✓ Linen canvas, fine grain universal coating
✓ For studies : Canson oil-acrylic oil paper Figueras
Others
✓ Palette
✓ Foam and spalter brushes
✓ Palette knife in the shape of a water drop, no souldering
✓ A few small pots, containers, jars...
✓ Paper towels

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