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Reddit mentions of Perfect for Paint! Paint Palettes (1 Dz) - 12 Pieces - Educational and Learning Activities for Kids
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- Perfect For Paint Palettes
- Parents and teachers will love these paint palettes
- Each plastic palette holds up to 6 colors in 1/2" deep wells
- These paint palettes take the hassle out of sharing paint bottles in a group setting
- Paint palettes also make it easy to mix colors right in the tray
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Color | White |
Height | 1 Inches |
Length | 1 Inches |
Number of items | 12 |
Width | 1 Inches |
Highly recommend at least one Kolinsky hair brush. Really helps early on to have at least one brush that cooperates. Kolinsky hair brushes snap back to a point well and allow a consistent flow of water thinned paint. Makes them ideal for base coating, shading with ink washes, details and highlighting. With proper care and cleaning highend Kolinsky brushes can last years.
You'll also want some cheap synthetic brushes. Use them for drybrushing, varnishing, or working with basing texures. The nature of these steps tends to wear out natural fiber brushes quickly, so you don't want to spend alot. Just grab a cheap set of "Gold Taklon" from your local wally world, craft store or similar. Gold Taklon isn't a brand name of brush, it's the type of synthetic fibers. You'll want a set with some small, flat brushes for dry-brushing.
Went a little crazy and bought my other half a collection of brushes from around the world in a variety of sizes for her birthday. https://i.imgur.com/1jmHpxX.jpg
We also have and have used quite a few:
What we've learned ... ANY good brand Kolinsky is night and day better for miniature painting with water thinned acrylics than synthetics. That's not to say a great and experienced painter can't do well with a bag full of 20 brushes for $2. But as relatively inexperienced painter a good brush helped both of up out tremendously.
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Actually I'm just going to copy/paste a supply list I sent a friend a few weeks ago if you want more details/links on some useful amazon/ebay supplies.
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TL;DR Brush options - Prices seem to fluctuate on brushes on amazon, alot. The nice Kolinsky brushes range from a bit above $10 each to a little under $30 each.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kolinsky-Pure-Sable-Acrylic-Nail-Brush-Detail-Set-AS-84-Sizes-10-0-0-2-4-/182798505865
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Brush Rinsing - Every Time you go back for paint, you rinse first, ensuring paint doesn't fully dry in the brush. Rinsing regularly goes a long way to letting your Kolinsky brushes last years. Choose the size rinsing container that best fits your work area. Not much reason for both.
Brush Cleaning - Just takes a minute or two at the end of the painting session. Ensures no paint cures on the brush and misshapes the hairs.
Palettes
Brushes -
You want/need some Pure Kolinsky Sable Hair brushes for most base coating, details and washes. They not only keep a sharper point than synthetics, they paint also flows out of the brush at a much more controlled rate. Doing things over again, I would have bought one or two quality Kolinsky brushes much, much sooner. It would have really saved a lot of much frustration.
Brush Details....
Disposable - Simple Nylon
Utility - Complex Mix of Synthetic Fibers intended to mimic Sable hair
Hobby Grade - Natural Sable Hair (But not Kolinsky Sable)
Kolinsky - Budget
- Update: These have been my goto brushes for more than a couple weeks now. Leaving the higher end brushes for my better half, as she's the better painter. I still grab a W&N7 or Da Vinci if I'm doing an extremely tiny detail, like eyes, or attempts at freehand. Really loving the Size 3-1. Size 0... I'd rather use a small W&N7/DV if I have that much detail to hit.
Kolinsky - English Traditional
Kolinsky - German Travel
You can buy lighter fluid and mix it with your paint or you can buy your paint's brand of thinner and mix it.
I use one of these for holding my paints during painting/washing
Or something like this. $7 for 12 6-well pallettes.