With the holidays coming up faster than we would like and many of us getting an early start on holiday painting I felt that what I did with this
brush warranted repeating and reshowing.
I could never find a brush narrow enough for painting Santas mustache,
beard finishing lines, or maybe hair on an animal or feathers on a bird so I took things into my own hands and gave my brush a haircut.
I had rakes/comb/feather edge brushes in different sizes and brands in both flat and filbert so I took one and cut both sides of the bristles off completely at the ferrel leaving just a few bristles in the center to paint with. They were already feathered to give me neat linework so I just needed "narrow".
Ruin a brush one woman said .... I don't look at it as "ruining a brush" I look at it as making a brush I needed and just could never find narrow enough. It is much better to cut a brush to make it work than to buy a brush thinking it will work and it doesn't...been there done that....and have never picked the brush up since. It sets in my "give away" brushes...and I continue to use the brush I cut over and over.
So,,,,,,,,,, if you find you also need a narrower brush here is the solution.
Good luck and enjoy painting those mustaches....
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