Reddit reviews Artify 15 pcs Professional Paint Brush Set Perfect for Oil Painting with a Free Carrying Box
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NATUARL WOOD COLOR HANDLES - Our fine artist brushes are individually handmade with luxury wood color handles and white coppers protective ferrules, and are fashioned by skilled brush makers. This set represents the natural beauty, which contributes to our lives and gives us hope and inspiration.VERSATILE ASSORTMENT - The 15 long handle brushes have a luxurious Brush Selection. Fan: Size 4, 8; Flat: Size 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 30; Round: Size 2, 6, 8, 12, 14, 20; Flat Brush: Size 5.100% PURE HOG BRISTLES & NO SHEDDING - It's stiff and made for Oil Painting. The fibers are constructed with a blend of hog hairs that workers tied together and aligned by hand so that the hairs won’t be left on the canvas while you are painting.FREE CARRYING BOX - Convenient for travel and organization.SATISFACTION SERVICE - We strive to make the best Professional Oil Paintbrush you’ve ever used. If you’re ever unsatisfied please contact us and we will give you a full refund.
Paints: /u/cajolerisms mentioned Windsor and Newton Winton paints as a solid student grade, and I second that recommendation. You're going to do a bunch of paintings where the limiting factor is skill more than materials, and for those the materials only have to be good, not great. W&N Winton is good paint.
A couple of drops of walnut oil will keep your paints on the palette from drying out for a good long time, a couple of days at least if you seal it in Tupperware and refrigerate it when you're not using it. Thinned with a drying medium they'll still dry to at least tacky to the touch overnight on the canvas, though, unless you really build up a thick impasto layer.
For colors I use a Zorn palette for portraits: ivory black, titanium white, cadmium red medium, and yellow ochre. For everything else, I drop the black and yellow ochre and add in ultramarine blue, cadmium red medium, cadmium yellow medium, and burnt umber. At some point when I'm more experienced I'll probably want a warm / cool palette, and a strong green like sap green for doing landscapes, but for now just the simple chromatic palette works fine.
Brushes: Hog bristle brushes are your workhorse. They're not expensive, either. I have these, these, and these. The first two are better quality but I end up using the long-handled ones most, for the first, like, 75% of each painting. Then I switch to the others for the finishing work. I've got some cheap synthetics and a long-handled watercolor brush - a round size 0 - that I can use for fine details, and when they wear out I'll replace them with some better ones, but I had them lying around already so I put them to work.
Surface: If you want to work on canvas, canvas panels are more economical than stretched canvas. (And I never liked the bounciness of working on stretched canvas; I like having a stiff surface to scrub on.) These and these are, I'm pretty sure, exactly the same panels, just with a different label on the back, and I've been happy with them so far.
Medium: Windsor and Newton Liquin is a solid choice. A good basic medium is half linseed oil / half odorless mineral spirits.
I started with synthetic brushes and ended up getting bristle brushes afterward. It's the type that Bob Ross uses. They pick up more paint and are a bit stiffer: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N0J37MT
I highly recommend staying away from Turpentine. It's known to sensitize the body resulting in skin reactions such as eczema, difficulty breathing, irreversible kidney damage and even nerve damage.
It's just not worth the risk in my opinion. Check out odorless mineral spirits or terpenoid as a much safer alternative.
CDC Occupational Health guideline for Turpentine:
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/81-123/pdfs/0648.pdf
>Get a bigger palette.
Thanks, I definitely will :)
>I use a nylon bristled 2" and 1" brush.
Is the nylon not too soft for the oil paint? I guess it doesn't make a huge difference for background work, but I thought I'd ask.
Are there any brushes you use frequently that are missing from the set I found?
>Jerry's Artarama Online
Wow, that's a way better price than other stores I found online. That's awesome, thank you so much! Link for the curious.
>I'm documenting my progress on youtube
I took a look, your paintings look great! I'm excited to get started too, hopefully someday soon. Thanks for all your help!