Best Paintbrushes for Acrylic Painting



Paintbrushes are critical to your paintings. Of course, you could use your fingers, hands, or other devices, paintbrushes usually work best.

When you start browsing paintbrushes, you will notice that there are very many different varieties ranging from cheap plastic ones to very expensive sable hair brushes. As you begin painting with acrylics, you will need to use the correct brush.

Synthetic Brushes

There are mainly two types of brush bristles, synthetic and a variety of natural hair brushes. Synthetic brushes are usually cheaper and have come to rival the quality of natural hair over time in improvements.

There are many different types of brushes including angular, bright, flat, filbert, fan, flat, round, and others. If you are just beginning, you might want to just start with a filbert and flat brush. Other brushes can be used for different things, but there are no set rules for how to use them. Experiment and go with what you like.

The Princeton Series makes a large variety of affordable and quality synthetic brushes that can be used for oil and acrylic.

Princeton Series 6300 Bright Synthetic Bristle Acrylic/Oil Brush size 2 Princeton Series 6300 Bright Synthetic Bristle Acrylic/Oil Brush size 2

This Bright Brush has a short flat head, perfect for short, controlled strokes. Perhaps the best brush for acrylics, the Princeton Brush Series 6300 synthetic hair brush has the same stiffness as natural bristle brushes. However, unlike natural bristle it retains its shape and stiffness when used with acrylics and other water based paints. The brush has a richly distinctive gold colored ferrule and a marbleized handle.

Natural Hair Brushes

Brushes are also made of natural hairs including sable, boar’s hair, and other animal hair. Sable brushes are known for their exceptional quality and you can get some at affordable prices such as the Robert Simmons Series.

Robert Simmons Series 767 White Sable Filbert Brush size 1 filbert Robert Simmons Series 767 White Sable Filbert Brush size 1 filbert

White Sable was developed exclusively by Robert Simmons to perform exactly like traditional red sable with regard to spring, flexible point, and sharp working edge. It will hold more color, clean easier, last longer, and is considerably lower priced than red sable.Filberts will render all the soft and subtle nuances needed for smoothly applied color tone in oil and acrylic painting.

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