Shaping Brushes with Use
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009A paintbrush is a tool. With use, it will wear down. The finest tip, with use, soon becomes dull. Alas . . .
![dsc_4515bw-450 four brushes, new and used](https://karlzipser.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc_4515bw-450.jpg)
four brushes, new and used
But there are positive sides to wear as well. We can think of the normal wear on the tips of the brushes as a shaping process, producing a new form of brush. As the photo above shows, four brushes of the same type will, with use, become distinct tools, each suited to a somewhat different job. All of these red sable brushes are fully functional, because I have kept them clean: the ferrules are not fused with dried paint, so hair still retains flexibility. (more…)