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Softening brushes
Softening is done with the tips of the bristles with the brush at a 90 degree angle to the surface. There are three basic types badger, synthetic and bristle. The badger, made from badger hair, is the finest of the softening brushes, used extensively in marbleizing and wood graining. Badger brushes are used with oil based glazes. The synthetic softeners are often copies (some are very good copies) of the real badger brushes. Most are suitable for latex and acrylic glazes and materials. The third type is the hog bristle softener. This is the stiffest of the softening brushes. Made for stiffer oil based materials. See Veining
Block stipplers / stippling brushes
Block stipplers are pounced in a pounding fashion onto the glaze to break up the color and to blend. Large block stipplers are used for the most part on large areas like walls. Smaller stippling brushes are used for marbling, wood graining and furniture finishes.
Dragging brushes
Wallpaper smoothers, chip brushes, and stiff bristle brushes are all used to drag out glazes for wood graining and wall techniques. Block stipplers can also be used See Color Washing and Strie
Floggers
Long bristle brushes made from either horse hair or hog hair. Flogging brushes are “slapped” or patted on the surface - usually with wood graining to produce wood pores. Floggers are also used as dragging brushes for wall strie and other dragged finishes, as well as for dragging in wood graining. See Flogging
Mottlers
Mottlers come in two basic varieties: wavy and straight. Mottlers are used to cut in grain negatively and for mottling. See Mottling
Rags
Used extensively in faux finishing from rag painting, ragging on and off finishes to softening and blending.
Sea sponge
Used for all sorts of faux finishing. The basic sponging or sponge painting wall finish is of course done with a sea sponge. Wall finishes, marbling and wood graining all utilize the sea sponge.
Graining tool, rockers, and rollers
These rubber tools are used to produce heart grain. The tools are dragged across the glaze while a slow rolling or rocking motion is done. Variety is achieved by varying the speed of the rocking or rolling. Different tools will give you a different look. The very useful graining pads which wrapped around a piece of PVC piping have disappeared from the marketplace for now. Hopefully they will re-emerge in the future. See How to Use a Wood Graining Tool.
Rubber combs
The duplex, triangle comb and the 3 in 1 comb are among the more common faux combs used mainly for wood graining. You can make your own combs by fashioning them from a rubber squeegee. Wide variety of combed straight grain can be made from a combination of one’s own combs and manufactured combs. See Plain Sawn Oak
Steel combs
Sold in sets, used for wood graining. Steel combs are used for quarter sawn oak as well as other moire effects. See Quarter Sawn Oak
Woolie pad / lambs wool pad
Use to blend colors together or to soften colors. Can be used in conjunction with the Wall Magic rollers to soften the pattern and blend.
Wall magic rollers
Use to mesh paint colors together wet-on-wet. Roll paint on and re-roll as required to create the desired effect. See Faux Italian Plaster.
For more information on painting and application techniques visit our website at:http://www.paintinganddecoratingconcourse.com
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