Reply To: Advice on starter painting sets (& brushes)

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I got a couple of the AOS starter boxes as part of a project at work and was actually really impressed. Nice range of colours and some shades included. In terms of brushes I’ve always said you only need three – a round tip soft brush for dry brushing, a flat wide for washes and then the work horse size no1 (I use Windsor and Newton and love them). Taking care of a brush tip has been a very important skill to learn.

However, along similar lines to what @georgesealy was saying about James Wappel using larger brushes, the same is true of Sam Lenz. There’s a video of him talking about it here – https://youtu.be/5vfJdCimmKA – and there’s a playlist on that channel where he talks about how to paint different techniques where none of the videos are super long. I haven’t gone all the way up to the size he uses but I have been experimenting with using a bigger brush more recently, I’m still not convinced but that could just be because p, whilst you can teach an old dog new tricks, it takes a while for the old habits to die ?