When you gain more experience with your painting, you will find that you can obtain different looks to your work by using your brushes with different techniques. This can give you positive effects and it can be quite rewarding.

Your imagination can soon be set free by the wonderful things that appear on the page or canvas, by using different brush strokes. You, in fact, at times may realize what can be achieved with a single brush. Everything from interesting marks, patterns, textures and simple things too, like fine and heavy lines.

If you go to your local art supplier you will probably think you are faced with too many types of different brushes. Which do I need? The choice seems endless. Well, with the cheap brushes you may find the hair itself often comes loose and parts of the handle disintegrate.

We all face this problem from time to time. These brushes are good for practicing with. However, different brushes are designed with a certain type of particular stroke in mind. As an example, to produce lines that gradually peter out, a brush with a fine point is ideal. Good too, for filling in parts with very fine detailing.

The flat brush has many bristles and appears to be very square in its actual shape. Very different to a fine brush, as you will find, they will let you fill up with lots of paint as they are with plentiful bristles. This being so, there is little need to keep refilling with paint. They also have the added advantage of covering substantial areas with a flat look.

With so many brushes to choose from just look at the unusual effects that you can make. However, I do think that we all have our favourite brushes. After all they are the tools of your trade!

Try, try, and try again. Just keep experimenting, it is all good fun. Let yourself go and have a ball. Time flies when you are having fun! The surprise is all yours.

You will soon find something that suits your particular style of painting, although this can vary from time to time. Effects! Well you can use the side of your brush, not necessarily the tip and, of course, it would depend on how much weight you actually put on the brush.

Personally I love acrylic and oil paints for my work. They appear to give you such flexibility. Being able to use them straight from the tube, you can use them so well for giving you dynamic, swirl like, strokes with a thicker brush. Great for water scenes too.

Another favourite of mine is paint dots. Good with a flat flexible brush. You could produce a whole painting this way. Try too with a dry brush. I first found this method by accident. Quite effective as you have the white patches showing through.

A stab type movement of the brush will at times make up a whole painting. Simply good too, are pictures made by only using a brush that is dry. You do not always need to cover all the page or canvas. Let the white be seen sometimes.

Basically, how you use the brush, can make the difference with or without weight behind it. Also the type of brush, flat brush, dry brush, fine brush etc. The finish is down to you. You can do dabs, dots, dashes alternately, swirls to make and ,of course, your color choice helps to give variance of tone.

If for example you are painting lines thick to thin, you need more pressure for the thick lines, a lighter stroke for the thin. It is all trial and error. So give it a go!

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