Making Paint Brushes for Unique Mark Making - Art Journaling

Making Paint Brushes to put a true unique touch on your art journaling mark making is a fun project. I love to make my own supplies and when these supplies are tools, there is tremendous gratification. I love pulling out a paintbrush that I made to utilize on my projects.

Brushes can be made from a lot of different materials, sable, camel, hog, squirrel hair are all used in brush production. I'm utilizing my horses tail. There are also lots of synthetic fibers that would work great if you wanted to make your own - I'm thinking about those color swatches for hair dye that is shown on synthetic hair - wigs, etc. Pieces of frayed jute, string, etc and plants would make interesting mark making tools that you could utilize.

00:00 Introduction
00:40 Meet Callie - Collecting the Horse Hair for the brush
01:34 Preparing the paint brush handle from twigs
03:34 Attaching the horse hair to the handle
04:41 Encaustic Medium to hold the Hair
05:53 Securing the brush to the handle with jute
08:56 Finished Brushes - Test them!

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