{"id":305,"date":"2008-03-18T13:16:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T19:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2018-12-14T17:57:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T23:57:35","slug":"use-big-brushes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/use-big-brushes\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Big Brushes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have long been an advocate of the bigger the brush you use the better.  For most of my  paintings,  even the smaller ones, I use a #10 bright, which is about 3\/4 of an inch wide.  To quote <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johncogan.com\/\">John Cogan<\/a>, &#8220;get the largest brush you can possibly use for the job, then use the next size higher&#8221;.  (John is one of my favorite artists, and definitely my favorite acrylic artist.)<\/p>\n<p>The last few weeks I have been working on a large commission, using primarily a #12 bright.  Yesterday, I took a break and continued working on a series of Yosemite paintings.  I used the same #12 bright, which is about an inch wide, and painted an entire 16&#215;20 using only the one brush.   (I did use a #12 round for just the sky in order to have softer edges.)  Although it is painted in a fairly loose style, I had no problem painting to the level of detail wanted.  Although I might touch it up a bit, below is the resulting painting.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"glacier point, yosemite, california\" alt=\"glacier point, yosemite, california\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/mountainsgallery\/picts\/morningglacierlarge.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">Morning Light on Glacier Point * 20&#215;16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long been an advocate of the bigger the brush you use the better. 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