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BRUSHES.
The Eagle brush is very large and expensive, and is seldom
used. The Duck and Crow sables are employed for deli-
cate markings ; as in branches, foliage and architectural
details.
Very pleasant and agreeable brushes are now made
with German silver ferules ; heavier indeed than the
quill brushes, but exquisitely made, and much employed
for many purposes. These brushes can be obtained of
any size, from the smallest miniature to the largest Eagle
sizes.
These ferule brushes derive also much value from this
circumstance, that they admit of being made so effect-
ively in a broad flat shape; and also from the circum-
stance that they cannot split, a common fault with those
manufactured in quill. In this form they are employed
in foliage, herbage, or grass, and where it is desirable to
preserve a square, sharp and well-defined touch. This
mode of working is adopted from a similar manipulation
m oil painting; and here, as in oil painting, the long
handle of the brush is of considerable advantage, when
the picture is executed on an upright easel. In this case
the mahl stick is used, as in oils.
For the working of skies, a wide flat brush is employed.
This is best made of strong red sable for extensive and
repeated washings; but if any slight subsequent over-
washings be required; the squirrel (or camel hair, as it is
called) will be the best, as its hair is softer, and not so
liable to rub up the colour beneath too quickly.
A flat camel hair brush m tin is a useful and necessary
implement, not only for laying broad washes of colour,
but for damping the paper previously to the commence-
ment and occasionally during the progress of the work,
as well as for softening tints where they may be too hard
and heavy.
The flat hog hair brushes used in oil painting, if made
with a fine soft bristle, are very effective tools in experi-
enced hands, in cases where body colour, or any rich and
BRUSHES.
The Eagle brush is very large and expensive, and is seldom
used. The Duck and Crow sables are employed for deli-
cate markings ; as in branches, foliage and architectural
details.
Very pleasant and agreeable brushes are now made
with German silver ferules ; heavier indeed than the
quill brushes, but exquisitely made, and much employed
for many purposes. These brushes can be obtained of
any size, from the smallest miniature to the largest Eagle
sizes.
These ferule brushes derive also much value from this
circumstance, that they admit of being made so effect-
ively in a broad flat shape; and also from the circum-
stance that they cannot split, a common fault with those
manufactured in quill. In this form they are employed
in foliage, herbage, or grass, and where it is desirable to
preserve a square, sharp and well-defined touch. This
mode of working is adopted from a similar manipulation
m oil painting; and here, as in oil painting, the long
handle of the brush is of considerable advantage, when
the picture is executed on an upright easel. In this case
the mahl stick is used, as in oils.
For the working of skies, a wide flat brush is employed.
This is best made of strong red sable for extensive and
repeated washings; but if any slight subsequent over-
washings be required; the squirrel (or camel hair, as it is
called) will be the best, as its hair is softer, and not so
liable to rub up the colour beneath too quickly.
A flat camel hair brush m tin is a useful and necessary
implement, not only for laying broad washes of colour,
but for damping the paper previously to the commence-
ment and occasionally during the progress of the work,
as well as for softening tints where they may be too hard
and heavy.
The flat hog hair brushes used in oil painting, if made
with a fine soft bristle, are very effective tools in experi-
enced hands, in cases where body colour, or any rich and