Sweet Tooth Fairy
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- Always clean your brushes well and lay them flat to dry. NEVER stand a wet brush on end. You may think it's clean but if there is even a trace of paint left in it, where do you think it will go when you stand it up? Into the ferrule - and soon your brushes look like they have stuck their little bristles in a light socket! Another useless brush.
- NEVER leave a brush standing in water, not even "just to answer the phone." The handle will absorb water and swell. When it dries out and shrinks, the ferrule will be loose and fall right off the handle. It's hard to paint without a handle.
- When painting on dark surfaces, always undercoat reds, yellows and other transparent colors with white. When painting something gold, undercoat with a light brown; it takes fewer coats and you get a better, more streak-free gold.
- Always use paint thinned to the consistency of ink when using a liner brush. If it isn't thinned, the paint doesn't flow from the brush.
- Never hold a liner brush like a pencil or lean it. Holding it straight up and down will get you the beautiful thin lines you want.
- When using a liner brush to make flowing vines and tendrils, put your entire arm into the process and let the motion flow from your shoulder. If you only depend on the motion of your hand and wrist, you may wind up with cramped, irregular, shaky lines.
- When painting eyes, fill in completely with solid white first. This makes it easier to see that they are the same size, same level, and evenly spaced on the face.
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