Marcula Stauffer explains how essential it is to select perfect paintbrushes for acrylics artists

Being a professional acrylic artist, Mark Marcula Stauffer shares his experience of selecting the best brushes to paint in an effective manner. Acrylics are fast-drying paints that can be used straight from a tube, like oil paints, or can be thinned with water, like watercolor. They are extremely versatile and vibrant, offering the artist a wide range of textures, colors, and consistencies. Buying paintbrushes for acrylics can be a bamboozling experience. Here, he explains different types of paintbrushes and their sizes. There are various sizes and shapes of paintbrushes which can be used for acrylics, oils, watercolors. The common eight paintbrushes are round, pointed round, flat, filbert, and angular flat, and fan, detail round and bright. However, the two main brush shapes for acrylic painting are rectangular and flat, and round and pointed” says Mark Marcula Stauffer . Flat or rectangle brushes have square, flexible ends and can hold a lot of paint. When us...