what brushes????

They sell kubuki brushes here for chinese makeup...TBH not been that impressed, too soft mainly, but watched Yolanda use hers in Shanghai.
Think they will be useful for SOME sorts of bases but not all - ie will beat sponged areas for blending, but not the watery thin layers I sometimes like to do, etc. I'll stick to body chisesl at the mo...
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Oh and my fave brushes they stopped making 4 yrs back, never really found any I liked as much so hop around a lot. I tend to have a set for blk, set for white & set for 'colours' with a round 2& 4, cats tongue rake, flat etc in each for speed. Every artist uses a different brush to get the same effects so its always interesting to see...

Does anyone have a source for those leather brushes?

Just as a FYI not the kabuki brush show in this thread and as advertised on the "big" face paint store as "Vargas" is not the same brush as sold and taught by Vargas (who has promoted the use of said brush for body painting) and reviewed in Illusion magazine. I have a brush he gave to Mark, who gave it to me, and have one I got from Vargas in Austria. The pics of those brushes are posted on one of my blogs. (not sure which one check on www.sweet-loretta.com - I'll be posting new blogs this weekend) We have the same brushes and I just got in the new angle kabuki brushes. Vargas says Royal will now make the inside of their brushed red to distinguish them.

I'm not writing domed brushes or other types don't work - just a clarification.

ALL OF THEM

My favorite brand is Princeton. They are nice and firm, and last a long time. I still have ALL the ones I bough from last summer, and they ALL still work great.

As far as sizes... I use all kinds of brushes; rounds, flats, filberts, tiny little detail brushes...

Im loving the loew cornell 795 the only proble is I cant find them anymore..
does anyone know where I can find them or ones that are very similar to these?

Thanks, Ruth

rxtorre wrote:Im loving the loew cornell 795 the only proble is I cant find them anymore..
does anyone know where I can find them or ones that are very similar to these?

Thanks, Ruth

I just bought 5 of those from sillyfarm. But you should try mark reid's brushes. The rounds... No 4 are amazing

When I was at Fabbulas working in Lucy Brouilard's class, she said to use short bristle brushes rather than the longer ones used for watercolor. Mark Reid's brushes are great to work with. I bought them at Fabbulas, but Im sure they are available on other sites. Lowle - Cornell brushes from Michaels are also nice and springy. They really hold lots of paint too so you don't have to re-load as often. I use the #4, #2, #1 and #6 rounds and it's good to have a good 1/2" flat brush for split cake work as well (making roses, etc.)

Metina sell the Mark Reid ones. Just bought 4 of them

My go-to brushes are:

Loew-Cornell 7000 Round in #2, 3, 4, 6 (these always seem to be sold out at my Michael's)
a pack of the Donna Dewberry 1-stroke brushes from JoAnn Fabrics, mostly flats but a few rounds in the pack and 1 scruffy brush that's good for stippling
Princeton Art #2 (cheap!)
Royal Soft-Grip #4
Royal Kolinsky Elite #6 (takes practice to get the sables going, but they're smooth once you do)
American Painter 4550 1/2 in flat - not my favourite flat, but works in a pinch. I find it just doesn't hold onto much colour

I've been sort of interested in the cats tongue. Does anyone have samples of linework with one?

My #4 mark reid brush gets overworked!

After taking Mark Reid's class with just his #4, I'm hooked, it's amazing. I went from using about 15 different brushes at a gig to 5, wow!