Brushes to Paint Over Texture

When painting over texture, in particular texture that is heavy, I often use large brushes to apply at least the first couple of coats. I guess this might be because I create large abstract paintings and so you need large brushes to cover the whole painting.

The brushes that I use are not expensive ones as large artist brushes can be very expensive. So instead of using artist brushes I often use ones that are actually designed for DIY. As long as you keep an eye on any stray hairs that may come out of the brush then these cheap brushes can be really good. Remember in particular with acrylic paints that you need to keep the brushes washed so that the acrylic paint does not dry out as it can do quite quickly.

With my large abstract paintings I will use a number of different coats of paint from neat paint straight out of the pot, to heavily watered down paint and often I also use dry brushing with big brushes to add highlights to the texture.

So you can find below an example of the types of brushes I use – you can get plenty of brushes like this and I have a whole stack to choose from so that I still have a dry one available for when I need to do the dry brushing.