Category Archives: Brushes

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More about the Badger Blender

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Care and Maintenance

This follows on from a recent post about the 5th benefit of undercoating, and also from “The Beastly Lion of Wolsey Towers” – episode #1, in which you saw how to undercoat a large piece of glass.

Today, cleaning your badger.

This is important because, dirty, your badger will wreck your matts and shadows.

Clean, it will serve you wonderfully for life.

So if your matts and shadows aren’t working, sure: it might be you’re being heavy-handed. All the same, your badger just might need a simple clean.

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The Badger Blender

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How can you blend and shade well if you don’t hold this brush correctly?

This is the biggest thing people get wrong when they use a badger blender (the big flat one: not the small round one). They hold it delicately. They hold it as if it were a feather duster.

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Live from the Studio – Day #3

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And also – money

You may already know that excellent maxim of Francois de La Rochefoucauld – “Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example” – well, the truth is now I’m just too mean to set a bad example.

That’s why today our five long-haul students benefited from a particular piece of hard-won wisdom which I am delighted to share with you.

So, to start: what’s the difference between this …