How to Make Your Own Painting Brush | Step-by-step

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  • Опубліковано 30 лис 2024
  • In this video you will learn how to make your own brushes in nine steps developed by the Scottish painter Alastair Blain who will perform a demonstration together with his apprentice, Jan-Ove Tuv.
    You need:
    • Hair from a boar, horse or cow
    • A branch of fitting diameter
    • Bee’s wax candle (or just Bee’s wax)
    • Linen thread (shredded from a piece of canvas)
    • Lighter/matches
    • A knife
    • A comb
    • A pair of scissors
    Step 1: Cut the necessary amount of hair from the fur
    Step 2: Comb off excess "woolly" hairs
    Step 3: "Glue" the base with a Bee’s wax candle, then let it cool
    Step 4: Cut the branch to the preferred length of your handle
    Step 5: Cut a thumb’s length of the tip (half its thickness)
    Step 6: Shape the Bee’s wax base to fit the handle
    Step 7: Attach the hairs using linen canvas thread
    Step 8: Make a knot and seal it with Bee’s wax
    Step 9: Shape the tip with a pair of scissors (if needed)
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 28

  • @greekveteran2715
    @greekveteran2715 Рік тому +4

    Having just tried for the 1st time,a Da Vinci Maestro 35 n6 and 3 Raphaael (an 803 n4,a 8404 n4 and a 8408 n6) I have to say,that I"ll never get another kind of brush,than any of those! They took my watercolour to the next level,literally,the most underrated supplies in painting,are brushes. Id try to make my own for fun!!!

  • @theianyx6394
    @theianyx6394 Рік тому +2

    what a great assortment of primitive brushes!!! nice work! ✨

  • @thereminpitchknob4059
    @thereminpitchknob4059 2 роки тому +6

    We will soon return to this. I pray.

  • @loreleii2173
    @loreleii2173 9 місяців тому +1

    This looks fun! Great way to make use of anither oart of an animal, i plan to save some fur from my cats to make some water color brushes but ill have to use a different process since the hoar fur is much thicker

  • @chrisgriffith1573
    @chrisgriffith1573 Рік тому +5

    There is an entire process of "settling" the bristles, and formatting them into alignment so they are as tight as they can be without squeezing them, I suggest you invest into a small vibration device to make a vibration plate. Its an extra step that makes your brush so much higher quality... (by tenfold) An epoxy is best for setting the bristles, just a lot less problematic. I mix the epoxy using the butt of the bristles themselves. I tie a temporary bind further up on the brush to hold it then dip and mix the epoxy, working it into the strands, then bind it to the hilt.

    • @aquaecoloratum
      @aquaecoloratum Рік тому +4

      hello Chrisgriffith, I would love it if you do a tutorial of the way you do your brush and if you do please tell me :)

  • @Trtlman
    @Trtlman Рік тому +3

    The hair is easier to work with if it's wet

  • @kingsleysaxon9710
    @kingsleysaxon9710 2 роки тому +4

    Wouldn't it be easier to tie off the tuft before cutting it then DIP the base in melted wax?

  • @Goldi-Luc
    @Goldi-Luc Рік тому

    hahah pretty rough brushes but i was highly entertained

  • @edwardgaray9134
    @edwardgaray9134 2 роки тому

    Wonderful

  • @jimqartworks
    @jimqartworks 2 роки тому

    awesome

  • @JerneyMarisha
    @JerneyMarisha Рік тому +1

    They look cool but the title is a bit misleading.

  • @ВикторВоробьёв-р7л
    @ВикторВоробьёв-р7л 8 місяців тому

    will bearskin hair be suitable?

  • @hugoderknabe
    @hugoderknabe Рік тому +4

    This knife is terribly unsharped

  • @karechapman7233
    @karechapman7233 5 місяців тому

    What was all that about?

  • @davidaaronartist
    @davidaaronartist 2 роки тому

    we need the next lesson...how to cook bacon

  • @artbylarry
    @artbylarry Рік тому

    😊

  • @awildacruz2990
    @awildacruz2990 2 роки тому

    How interesting 🤔

  • @yvonneackerman6039
    @yvonneackerman6039 Рік тому

    Wells i need pinceles, brush art ...here don't selling gross und 00, ,01, 1 don't existe. Ji hace a cuestión what side You use for the point. The brush? Neat the skin or the reali end of hair of animal. Here thereis digas whit beautifull haid r ando long

    • @Goldi-Luc
      @Goldi-Luc Рік тому +1

      the cut end is always the part you glue. brushes are settled and shaken and moved into place for their shape, with the natural tip of the hairs being the tip of the brush, and you dont cut them to shape so that theres not a cut edge for the painting tip. at least for higher quality brushes. (because the tips of the hair are finer than the base)

  • @quentinrozhenko8321
    @quentinrozhenko8321 2 роки тому +10

    oof, tf is this? those brushes look terrible and the process equally so.

  • @spiritsgyre2021
    @spiritsgyre2021 Рік тому +6

    A disaster. Please watch a Japanese brush-maker create a finely honed brush using just as natural a process. The pretense here is shameful.

    • @peanutbutterjelly5861
      @peanutbutterjelly5861 Рік тому +6

      I don't think you understand what is going on here,

    • @Daniel_Plainview
      @Daniel_Plainview 6 місяців тому

      White people brush lmfao

    • @Music-ct4cj
      @Music-ct4cj 2 місяці тому +2

      @@peanutbutterjelly5861what… what is going on here? 👀