Making your own paintbrushes

Step 7: Some of the brushes I have made

I have re-modified a pen into a paintbrush using my husbands hair.
Below is the chopstick brush with my hair.
Finally my grass and twig brush.  Have fun making your own.

Comments

[Drakekay]

Totally great Idea!!! :D Ive been thinking bout picking up painting, Gotta find some old Bob Ross tapes. Loved that guy's presentation!!!! :D But yea, these and homemade paints are the way to go!! :D

[missannie]

Thanks for the feedback! I love those Bob Ross videos, maybe I should start making my own and post them too.

[Drakekay]

You should definitely do that.

[missannie]

happy little clouds...move out of the way! :-)

[Drakekay]

are you painting a sky scene?

[kiffer360]

Remember, whatever you do, make your trees look like happy trees.

[acoleman3]

ah....a bob ross painter. love it!. he was so bomb....god bless.

[porcupinemamma]

What a lovely and creative idea. Thanks for posting! I'm wondering, how deep should a hole be drilled and how did you stabalize the wood while drilling the hole?I have always wanted to make coloured pencils using sticks.

[Funksmaname]

Thanks for this, I've just been looking for ways to create brushes out of my cocker spaniels fur!

quick idea, bamboo has a natural hole down the center - so a piece of bamboo won't need drilling, just slicing with the blade... going to try it later! thanks for the idea :)

[lucila]

Thank you very much. It was what I was looking for to start painting glass!

[applefanatic]

i like the pen!

[urbanwoodswalker]

LOVE the recycled pen one. Thats just plain CLEVER~~~!! ;-)

[avisser]

That's such a great idea! I'm afraid my Yorkies will be going quite bald soon :p