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Grip
How to hold the tools you use
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There are some things it’s best you see. Yes indeed, there are some things it’s best we show you so you see them quickly with your own eyes (because it would take hours and hours for you to read about them).
Your Tracing Brush, the Ballpoint Pen, and Zero-Gravity
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It is our strength – your strength and mine – that we learn from our experiences. But this can also be our weakness: we are both blessed and cursed when we pick up a tracing brush.
Blessed – because we already know to grip it like a pen.
Cursed – because we expect it to function like a pen.
And it doesn’t.
Or so I thought until I learned about the pens which astronauts use to write in zero-gravity space: I’ve just discovered a helpful similarity …
At Last: The Correct Way to Load and Shape your Tracing Brush
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Your trace lines – your outlines, or contour lines – these lines can only be as good as your paint and tracing brush allow.
So if your glass paint is badly mixed, or your tracing brush is wrongly shaped and loaded, your trace lines can’t be right.
End of story.
That’s why today I want to show you the right and the wrong way to load your tracing brush.
All I ask three minutes of your time, that’s all I’ll take, and in return you’ll see the difference.