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Hey guys, normally when drybrushing my models I just use normal paints that have been mostly wiped off the brush, but yesterday I decided to try the new paint range and picked up a tub of Etherium Blue, but when I opened it, it was pretty much a solid globule, it works well enough, but I was just wondering, should it be like this? Should the paint just be a solid mass that I rub my brush against?

I take it that's a GW "drybrush" or "dry" paint?

If so, yes.

Yeah its suppose to be like that.

Personally I don't like the new "dry" paints from Citadel. I could dry brush with liquid paints just fine.

Hmm, was not aware they were like that, I will need to pick some up and experiment.

@Bongfu - How does hailing from TX in the US make you one of the Cymry?

I thought this thread was going to be about the brush itself.
What kind of bristle makes for the best drybrush? GW use ox hair combines with something else. Which still seems to wreck itself fairly fast. Is there something better out there that I'm just not aware of yet?

Makeup brushes = amazing results with drybrushing.
Most people don't think about it, but thats what our wives and girlfriends do every day - turn solid pigment into powder with a brush, and apply it as a thin dust in several coats.

Its meant to look like chocolate mousse but if its own colour.

Derr wrote:
Makeup brushes = amazing results with drybrushing.
Most people don't think about it, but thats what our wives and girlfriends do every day - turn solid pigment into powder with a brush, and apply it as a thin dust in several coats.

I DID THIS ONCE

Ask her for her old ones

 mwnciboo wrote:

Derr wrote:
Makeup brushes = amazing results with drybrushing.
Most people don't think about it, but thats what our wives and girlfriends do every day - turn solid pigment into powder with a brush, and apply it as a thin dust in several coats.

I DID THIS ONCE

Ask her for her old ones

This. My wife sells Mary Kay for a living - I get her old demo brushes.

Yup, not surprisingly, the dryer the paint is (without it being completely solid) the better it'll be for drybrushing

Even if I'm drybrushing with regular paints, I'll take some paint out of the pot and spread it thinly over my palette so it can dry out a bit before trying to drybrush with it.

One of the mistakes I made when I first started painting was thinking drybrush meant "not much paint on brush", but it does actually mean "dry" brush, so using thicker/dryer paint and wiping off on absorbent tissues to soak up extra moisture makes things easier.