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

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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...

Marcula Stauffer: Tips for the beginner in Acrylic Painting

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Acrylic paint is a great medium for the beginners because it is relatively inexpensive, water-soluble, quick-drying, versatile, and forgiving. Because acrylic is a plastic polymer, therefore you can do painting on any surface as long as it doesn't contain wax or oil. Acrylics can be used without any toxic solvents and can be cleaned up easily with soap and water says Marcula Stauffer , who is an expert in doing acrylic painting.  If you are planning to learn acrylic painting, then he had mentioned some of the tips that can follow, while learning acrylic painting, which includes:- • For doing acrylic painting, you don't need to buy a box of 64 different colors; you can easily start with 10–12 basic colors as well. For doing acrylic painting, he recommended to use stiff-bristled brushes for doing thick acrylic painting and soft-bristled brushes for creating watercolor effects. If you don’t want to spend some money on buying the brushes then you can easily go for a fla...