Paint Brush classification

There are two types of Paint Brush, one is soft-hair brushes, including red sable hair brushes, cow hair brushes, squirrel hair brushes and polyester hair brushes; the other is hard-hair brushes, namely mane brushes. Soft-bristle and synthetic brushes are more commonly used in watercolor painting techniques, while bristle brushes are best for heavy use of paint or in scratching techniques.

Round-tipped soft-bristle brushes, especially sable brushes, play a pivotal role in watercolor painting. This kind of brush has excellent performance of absorbing pigment, and is soft and elastic, and its use is more and more extensive, which can be used for detail drawing. It can also be used for painting large areas. Red sable brushes are made from the tail hair of the Asian mink, a type of mink. Pick out the soft and curly hair. Only elastic hairs are used to make paintbrushes. If you put a single mink hair under a microscope for observation. What you see is far from being as smooth as the surface, but there are structural differences from root to tip. It is precisely because of this that the pigment can be adsorbed on it. Each mink has a belly—a slightly wider seal in the middle—and tapers on the sides. This abdominal cavity forms the space in the l paintbrush, making it a store and subtractor of paint.

The length of mink hair is between 25mm and 60mm. Long mink fur is very rare and extremely expensive, about four times more expensive than shorter mink fur. The entire production process of the paintbrush is done by hand. First, steam the mink hair under pressure to straighten it, then put it in the hollow cylinder and beat it gently to select unusable short hairs and remove them. Pick out the fragile white miscellaneous hairs, and divide the mink hairs according to the standard shoes required for making a pen. You can use your eyes to judge how much you need, and you can just make the mink hairs neatly stuffed into the metal hoop. , The so-called metal hoop is actually the metal tube that connects the pen head and the pen holder.