Paint brush for chipping

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Buy a Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky brush.  I personally prefer Prismacolor pencils for chipping.  

I have found your advice helpful on a few things.I put "Series 7 Kolinsky Brush" into Amazon and it returnd various different sizes.Which one  were you talking about ?

thanks Anthony

Gotcha thanks.

I see Series 7 Kolinsky brushes on Amazon.

Can you get Kolinsky hair brushes anymore? Seems they are all out of stock with no replacement date at all the major online art retail shops.

Buy a Winsor & Newton Series 7 Kolinsky brush.  I personally prefer Prismacolor pencils for chipping.  

I use brush chipping as my go to method, I've found that its less messy and that it works great. I've spelled it out in the Armor Forum, but here goes:

1-Paint a dark base paint or primer, let dry

2-Brush on AK Heavy Chipping with any type of brush to the area(s) you want chipping to occur, if you

   don't want to chip that spot later, no harm. Let dry overnight

3-Spray on your top coat and let dry.

4-Take a round brush and trim it down to about an 1/8 of an inch

5-Use clean water and start using this brush to add water to the area and keep rubbing. Theres some

  variables here but at some point the top coat of paint will start wearing away showing the base coat to the areas you want the effect.

And thats it

Heres one that I used it on.

For chipping effect I use different methods, Hairspray, salt, rubber cement, soft foam or sponge, Prismacolor pencils  and brushes ranging from 18/0 and moving up in size depending on the effect. Brands to me don't matter as I get them at HL with a 40% coupon but of good quality. The cheapy ones usually don't work out too well.

I sometimes use the tip of a sharp toothpick.  I use those double ended round picks with the sharp ends.  I shake a bottle of silver or aluminum paint, take the cap off and lay it down upside down on bench.  Just enough paint sticks in top liner to put just the right amount of paint on pick. Much easier than trying to dip pick into bottle just the right depth.