Article · The Kirby Foundation / The FUSE Pathway
7 Basic Paintbrush Techniques
By Paul Kirby
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2023
About this lesson
A nonprofit foundation's illustrated guide to seven foundational brush techniques (drybrush, double-load, hatching, cross-hatching, scumbling and splatter), each with a short method description and example image, useful for building the expressive brushwork vocabulary behind gestural abstraction.
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