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Blending As you complete a number field, use the bristles of a dry brush to blend the wet edge with the adjacent field, softening the contrast. Streaking Softly paint fine streaks of a lighter shade over a darker shade. This is a good technique to add texture to hair and backgrounds. The size of a paint brush is indicated by a number printed on the handle. The smallest brushes start at 0, then proceed to 1, 2, and on up to 24 or even larger. The higher the number, the bigger or wider the brush; the more zeros, the smaller the brush!

The process of painting by numbers is a relaxing, rewarding experience, and the result is a personal masterpiece. The following tips and techniques provide helpful guidance for beginners from start to finish.

Take a Picture

There is only one number within each paintable space, so a reference guide is essential to have in case a number is painted over. It is easy to make your own reference guide: Take a picture of the canvas outline before beginning to paint. A camera phone will allow you to zoom in on all the details of the outline.

Getting Started

Acrylic is an easy water-based medium to work with that cleans up easily from most surfaces with soap and warm water. However, it’s a good idea to protect your clothing while painting.

• Always be sure to choose a well-lit space to work on your canvas, bright natural window light is best.
• Stir paints thoroughly before using.
• Paint the smallest detail areas first.
• Before changing paint colors, rinse your brush gently with water and remove excess water.
• To prevent paints from thickening, close each cap securely after use.
• If paint becomes thick, add one drop of clean water at a time until desired consistency.
• Lighter colors may require additional coats of paint for desired coverage, keep in mind that acrylics dry slightly darker.
• For a finer brush tip, trim brush fibers to a point using scissors.
• If a number field is painted with the wrong color, allow the area to dry, then repaint using the correct color.
• Paint according to the outline guide for optimal results, however it is your painting so you may choose the colors and fill in the details that best suit your style.

Painting Techniques

These techniques may help you fine-tune your artwork. To be sure you get the desired effect, try out the techniques before using them on your canvas.

Go Lightly Painting conservatively in thin layers will preserve the genuine canvas texture.

Highlighting Once dry, select a lighter color than the painted area. Apply color to a dry brush and streak until the paint is tacky. Apply lightly to highlight canvas texture.

Blending As you complete a number field, use the bristles of a dry brush to blend the wet edge with the adjacent field, softening the contrast.

Streaking Softly paint fine streaks of a lighter shade over a darker shade. Lenovo t60 wireless driver. This is a good technique to add texture to hair and backgrounds. The mask 2 2012.

Glossy Finish To saturate colors and add a brilliant shine that protects, add varnish. Brush a Gloss Medium and Varnish over the completely dried painting. Brush one coat horizontally, allow to dry. Brush a second coat vertically, allow to dry. Varnish may be purchased at most craft stores.

Framing

Allow your painting to dry overnight before placing your canvas into a frame. Glass is not necessary when framing painted canvas pieces. Floating frame kits arrive with canvas pre-mounted, no additional assembly.

Share Your Art

You are welcome to exhibit your final work in the Gallery online and share your final painting with the world. Scan or take a clear picture of your painting and upload it to the Gallery. Thank you for inspiring all of us!

As we all know, brushes come in a variety of materials, shapes, and sizes.Most brushes have a handle, a ferrule (the object holding the bristles), andbristles made of synthetic or natural materials.The bristles have a length (measured from the ferrule to the tip) and a width(measured where the bristles exit the ferrule),but what's the brush number?This article describes the brush size numbering system that oftenappears on the handle of paint brushes.

Basically, the numbering system is meant to order the sizes of brushes.The system begins at 0. Larger brushes are signified by increasing wholenumber values. Smaller brushes are signified by increasing the number ofzeros. The smaller sizes are often abbreviated with a slash notationending in '/0' and having a whole number for the number of zeros.Hence, the following two ordered ranges are equivalent:

Winsor & Newton brushes. From left to right: 000, 0, 2, mini 2, mini 0, mini 00.

This photo shows a series of brushes from manufacturer Winsor & Newton(warning, this site requires the Flash 5 plugin).To the left of the U.S. penny are round sizes 000, 0, and 2.To the right is their 'round miniature' brush sizes 2, 0, and 00.As you can see, similarly numbered brushes are about the same size atthe ferrule, but even two round shapes can have different bristle sizes.

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There is no standard measurement system that the industry must follow.The comparison of round brushes to other shapes,and the introduction of metric and imperial measurementsmakes these numbers inconsistent between manufacturers.One site states that these measurements are roughly 1/32 of aninch, another site states 1/6 of an inch, and another states 1 mm.This table gives a common summary

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Size	Round Size	Flat/Other Size
5/0	<<1/64'	<<1/64'
4/0	<1/64'	<1/64'
3/0	1/64'	1/64'
2/0	<1/32'	<1/32'
0	1/32'	1/32'
1	3/64' 2.7mm	2/32' 5.3mm
2	2/32' 3.1mm	3/32' 6mm
3	5/64' 4.2mm	4/32' 6.5mm
4	3/32' 5.5mm	5/32' 9.2mm
5	7/64' 6.3mm	11/64' 10.1mm
6	4/32' 7mm	6/32' 11mm

Some better suppliers perform their own brush size measurements.Blick Art Materials has somegreat reading material on brush sizes, shapes, and materials at:

Flash mac chrome. Most miniature painters use a variety of brushes.The size of the brush generally determines how much paint you can loadand carry to your miniature, and how much paint is applied tothe miniature - the width and rate of paint application.For 15 and 28 mm miniatures, the brush sizes 000 through 2 are mostlikely the sizes you will use, with perhaps one or two other sizes forpriming and dry brushing and top coating.Be aware that the brush size notation is arcane and inconsistentfrom manufacturer to manufacturer.

More miniatures-related articles are atDan Becker's Miniatures and Models site.Thanks for stopping by and reading about my miniatures.