Are you using your brushes WRONG? Art Brush Secrets

good luck paintin a sky with the filbert brush so anyway as I fling it down onto the ground [Music] hi I'm Kevin Hill and today we're gonna do something different you guys have been asking at least a lot of you been asking about you know what does each brush do specifically and I'm gonna try to give you kind of what I think of the best thing you can do with each specific brush kind of what it was designed for so hopefully this is interesting alright let's get started this may seem a little obvious but it's actually when you think about it's kind of interesting the best thing you can do with this two inch brush but one of the things that you certainly couldn't replace it with a sky I mean you could do it with a one inch but that's about it I mean you know good luck painting a sky with a filbert brush so anyway as I fling it down onto the ground anyway this is it with your two-inch brush to me this is the best tool for the job when it comes to just blocking in the large areas of the sky of course your wires your bottom darker at the top you can do all of your blending right here because when it comes to just at least the background section of the sky really you can just do the whole thing with a two inch brush pretty pretty quick and easy so definitely something that's not replaceable so that's kind of there hopefully that gives you an idea how we're gonna do the video I'm just gonna like show you the the number one thing that you do with that brush but if you try to use something else you know like a low quality low quality large brush for like painting the house I've got tons of those but they're for painting the house right they just doesn't come out as smooth you don't get this airbrush you get an airbrush to look when you use a higher quality brush so that's the difference I never really talked about the quality of the brushes but if you use a cheap brush it shows now I'm going to attempt to go in an order that makes sense lots of people are already laughing at me I've got a one inch brush ready to go I went ahead and just brought the sky completely down a figure that would just give us a nice backdrop to show you these brushes so one thing with the one-inch brush that is probably the easiest thing you can do you know you can't do it any easier with a 3/4 or the fan you're making background trees watch this so you know say we got our little sky or whatever and you want some background misty trees here's what I usually do you probably see me do this a lot you get in here and kind of do these overlapping strokes you can kind of just raise out a tree you can use your filbert to clean them up but this is the way you start see that you just literally can just hit it down using kind of the back side of the brush that makes sense just like that and you get instant canopy of soft trees this is like a background maneuver you wouldn't do this as much in the fort well you can do it the foreground too and then just add more details to it could you grab a little white you know just kind of scrub in some mist with this brush watch this darken it up little this is not a painting video this is to show you the brushstrokes I could care less about the colors we could you know we can do it in black and white it wouldn't matter isn't that cool so basically just your quick and easy background trees a good-quality one-inch brush gets the job done so easy compared to the other brushes so now I'm going to show you the blender brush but in order to do that I have to put some paint down on the canvas first cuz you can't really paint with this one too well maybe when you're doing something like sunrays which I could show you how to do but I want to show you this this cloud I'm just gonna take the filbert brush you could do this with any other brush really I'm just gonna grab the filbert brush I'm gonna go up on some some slippery don't even know what I was gonna say so slippery wet paint that just looks terrible this is where the blender brush shines well I'm not doing this but fixing that's I just want to show you that that you know if you get a big muddy mess up here well not so much money but a big just mess you can take that blender brush and fix it so quick and make turn it in something really pretty and make it nice I'm gonna show you that let me set that brush down or at least one of my favorite and not so much the best but just one of my favorite things to do just take this brush set it down I like to use just the top of the brush and go in circles now a cloud like this can be can be made you know without blending I do that sometimes but when you're learning or if you want to get a little more refined look to your painting try the blender brush gets you some really soft edges with minimal effort but for the big chunks of paint you just take them and blend them right away oh all of a sudden it went from time to get rid of the canvas - oh that's not too bad in fact that's looking pretty nice isn't it great so reach for the blender brush if you ever worried about something that's looking a little harsh or just looking weird sometimes a nice soft blend is all it needs now we're moving on to the filbert brush here I'm just gonna grab some dark green doesn't really matter now I think my favorite thing to do with the filbert brush is add on larger trees I mean you can use the filbert brush for almost everything and it's probably my favorite brush really to me it's the most versatile brush for sure I wouldn't want to sit there paint a whole sky with it but I do just about anything else with it it's a it's a nice brush you can tell you know I like it but anyway what I think maybe my favorite thing to do is to kind of get these larger I would say mid-ground trees and bushes same same difference it's this tapping stroke and especially as I was learning and I wasn't as comfortable with other brushes and other techniques this technique was so easy just the stabbing it and they look so much more detailed than if you did him with larger brushes you know they give you bigger limbs these have smaller limbs they look more detailed a little slower but just a little you know very small amount to me it's well well worth it there of course you know you don't have to stop there slide down give yourself a little tree trunk or two I won't highlight or anything because my highlights the same exact way I'm just showing you brushstrokes today but isn't that great so you just slide up to get a couple of nice little bits there it's just that tapping there's no sliding up in the canopy area that's probably my favorite thing to show you with a filbert brush all right I'm just finishing up here making a big mess pretty good looking miss huh just using the filbert brush you use anything just to lay on colors just some light dark light dark and so on alright let's put that brush down grab a clean fan the only brush you wouldn't want to do this with is the fan brush because you want to keep your fan brush clean or if you do it with your fan brush make sure you rub it out on the paper towel really well the point is you want nothing in the brush because you this is your palette and you're just gonna take the paint that's on your palette and literally push it upward it was very easy for me to decide what my favorite technique is grass with the fan brush it's easy for me to decide because just look at this result you get and I'm not I'm certainly not the person that stands out here and says you know painting is super easy you do have to practice at it it doesn't just happen automatically except this I would say you don't really have to have experience this just works it's funny it's the only technique that I know of that works without really any practice to speak of and so I had to show it to you isn't that cool and as you come down I do usually go ahead end up loading just a little just a little paint into my brush and I'll usually go down like this just to get some more grass it's a larger grass you know big stuff in the foreground now we're moving on to the 3/4 flat brush I'm going to load it up with a little bit of just brown and black I think I think my favorite thing to do with this brush I think it just really shines when it comes to painting rocks I could do it over that thing when I just do it over here just gonna think of keeping things consistent but I just wanted to show you how to do a couple of rocks now this brush works I mean every brush works for so many different things so it's so hard to do with this video but so many people have asked about you know specifics on the brushes and so here we are we're gonna be specific this is just my opinion your opinion probably will differ you say that it's not as good for rocks I like it feel from my cabin well I agree I think it'd be just perfect if you're painting a cabin but this is just my opinion so you know it's not it's certainly not gonna be the same as a lot of people that's okay it's just art right it's fun it just doesn't matter okay anyway there's some rocks so it's a cluster of rocks I guess in the ocean or somewhere I want to show you how to highlight and I think this brush actually really highlights well I almost think it highlights better you could kind of slam them in with both anything but watch what happens when you just slice over a little of that beautiful sunlight right on top of those rocks kind of got a grassy color to it maybe I'll add just a little red just for the sake of changing it up there by the way I mean I know this one isn't gonna be on the website but I've got a lot of other original paintings for sale including last week's is actually still available at least as of the time I'm filming this if you're interested definitely go to the website and check out the original paintings for sale I don't know how long we're gonna offer them they're available right now just trying to lower my supply of it so Benny here it's a paint you know each week for a video at least so I think it'd be fun to let you guys enjoy them too anyway there you go rocks just using the chisel edge of the 3/4 brush now we're moving on to a newer brush this is the quarter inch flat it's exactly the same bristle as the 3/4 flat look just in a quarter inch size the bristles are actually a little longer I think you know if it was just shrunk down to scale the bristles would be shorter actually a lot of my students told me that the bristles needed to be longer I listened I agree I think they work better longer a little softer anyway that was more information than you wanted let me show you what I love doing with this brush I think I found my new favorite mountain painting brush to get to this point do you use whatever I I personally use 3/4 flat because that was in my hand she could use whatever it doesn't matter but once you're here you can't really go crazy you know you could use the detail round brush but I like the rocky chiseled edge you know like if these rocks and valleys and stuff with the chiseled edge for brush versus the round brush it works better for rocks and stuff I think so anyway I kind of I kind of just worked my way around here and create these little ridges and valleys obviously you can't do a mountain to any kind of really great quality hair with the brush in just a few seconds but it gives you an idea of the stroke you need four or five colors a whole bunch of different things going on you need your mountain to be crazy but that's not the point today is it you see how you can also do some blending maneuvers they're pretty nice I'm just using white little pink actually they're some highlight but you can just just literally carve out your Mountain carve your highlights in with this brush mmm nice isn't it so anyway that is it one of my favorite things to do with this with this quarter inch flat because it's smaller you get these more detailed areas so easy compared to something that was too large enough you had a huge mountain maybe I would I would use a little bit of both maybe the small and big one but it's nice to have options isn't it alright you can now not a mountain painting video but it's you know me I just can't help it that's hard to leave it sort of half-finished or at least let me get a shadow I'll show you how to do that you pull the shadows down slide them down the opposite angle of your highlight and you get a better look that way mmm I just love that little brush stroke in there people pay extra for that sort of thing so you don't have to smooth everything out perfectly well now it's time to show you the detail round brush I bet you guys can guess exactly what it is like a tree trunk up here got my detail helpful brush loaded with some dark green and I've got a lot of students that are yelling at the screen it's comma stroke time this is this is something I just couldn't pass up I love doing comma strokes and you guys just don't I don't know why it takes too much time I don't know oh but it is fun it is so much fun I think it's more fun because you guys kind of think it's annoying but anyway there's a there's just a little bit of of a next rope or a comedy just set the brush down you give it a flip side to side move your hand around each one touches another as you know there look at that I'm telling you in just a few seconds and you just have something that looks so detailed and so this one over here is your is your background treat kind of middle-ground tree over here you got your real close-up one and if this was an ax painting it probably just a little bigger kind of filling up the canvas a little more but for the sake of this I figured it was better not to just fill everything up anyway we'll just do a few more of these dark ones I just keep continually doing these commas over and over again the slower you go the smaller they are the better they look that's kind of a tip for you well that's enough of those dark ones let me just grab a little bit of light color on the on the round brush again I'm going to simply highlight I just wanted to show you it's really the same kind of start outside your dark and then work into the dark if that makes sense you know you start literally to the right in this case of the darkest leaves so you're going over the blue you're not actually going over your green and then once you're done with that then you work it in and what that does is it allows you to do this without creating mud and then what happens when you go in you start getting a little mud but instead of calling it Matt you call it mid-tones oh isn't that great see pretty fun when you work with it instead of against it right nice and honestly it's been forever doing a tree like this by forever I mean ten minutes mmm and you get a really nice result having just spent 20 seconds almost you know or whatever it's been you don't get a great result but you certainly get something good enough to show you that these brush strokes work the last brush I'm gonna show you today well because it is the highest brush that I offer right now is the liner brush and there's a lot of things you can do with the liner brush it was not hard to pick out my favorite though my favorite is grass it really is I mean once you get oh by the way here's my brush I can't show you the palette too much because otherwise the palette just ends up on the floor if you know what I mean uh yeah and anyway but what I was gonna say before I go way distracted was once you kind of learn this motion of getting this grass texture down this a stroke the pull the pull up grass stroke Oh once you've learned it and I understand it's a little tiny bit tricky to learn once you learn it oh it's fun let me can I give you a couple of tips can I get moving in a circle you know think of it as a circle not just okay I'm gonna come down here pull up grass oh oh I see this in my class all the time who else is painted grass like this right yeah I know you guys have I have too but do your best to kind of think of it as one motion just a circle only part of that circle touches the canvas but it is doing a circle as you can see I usually do my light ones first my dark ones second helps push the light ones back let's see how you can just create these beautiful little blades of grass occasionally kind of like been won over like that and then do these little like touches of detail like these little leaves or seat pods and stuff I do that usually with the liner brush toward the end but just instant detail it's pretty cool isn't it of course those things need to be connected to make sure you have enough blades of grass kind of going through that area then it makes sense it's never be perfect just needs to be good enough right just close enough for the viewer to kind of see that it's a nice detailed foreground in grass area as you run out of paint your strokes tend to get a little thinner so use that to your advantage but there you go takes practice but once you get it it's worth it you know just take yourself up a practice canvas do a lot of grass you know use that use a good hour to fit that's what it takes it's up totally worth it anyway my favorite thing to do with the liner brush well I'm just standing here talking you can just take some light ones to go right back over to break them up just to add that second layer of interest I love it well hopefully this has been interesting and you learned something from this quick tip video be sure to check out our website our DVDs brush line and also the original paintings that are now available thanks for watching [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 17min 53sec (1073 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 02 2019