USE THE BRUSHES
These brushes are the functional equivalent of high quality water color rounds in many sizes. Having so many brushes can allow each brush to be dedicated to a chosen color, preserving clarity not easy to achieve otherwise. You will have enough brushes in many different bristle types so that about any effect in water colors or inks can be produced.
Traditional painters in sumi or sumi-e will not need the following advice.
PREPARE THE BRUSHES
Your new brushes are not ready to use, but have arrived stiff with starch, both to protect before use and to display their proper shape when in use. This starch must be fully or partly removed before use, depending on your perferred style. Soaking them fully may weaken the handle so you should romove the starch by slow swishing in warm water, but with the handle dry. This takes time, but doing this preparation intimately shows you the nature of the bruth you are preparing.
Because of my impatient nature, I typically prepare one brush a day. Doing this before I need each lets me be ready for whatever work I later undertake.
With or without pre-washing, you will now want to hang the brushes.
For this purpose, you may have assembled the stand.
The Stand WHAT YOU GET
The stand arrived in three pieces:
1.) the main body with the top fiaial attached,
2.) the spiked round where the brushes hang,
3.) one of three feet had fallen off and lay there looking like it might be a working lever.
In addition there should be two glassine envelopes each containing nine very nice brushes attached to a card.
FIRST DISASSEMBLE
In order to achieve something looking like the picture or better, you must disassemble a bit.
1. Remove any of the little feet still attached to the bottom. This is three at the most. Since they are similar to push pins, only wooden, this is not too difficult. You may either discard them or use them as actual push pins if you need any.
Attempting to use the stand with any or of the feet attached causes it to tip over any time touched.
2. Remove the top finial which is the decorative pointed top. It unscrews.
NOW ASSEMBLE
1.) Find the round piece with spokes then lower it over the metal bolt uncovered by removing the finial.
Which side up makes no functional difference, but one side is smooth and the other has a pattern similar to the base. This decorated side might be intended to be on top.
2.) Attach the finial again. Screw instead of push. Keep screwing when it becomes a bit difficult until the final rests just above the round with its spokes.
3.) Test to make sure the round turns independently of the rest of the brush holder.
ADD THE INCLUDED BRUSHES AND OTHERS YOU MAY OWN OR PURCHASE.
Any older brush without a cord can be stored bristles up in an ordinary brush cup.
I suppose if one were a docorator, one could use this set as a focal point.
i am far more pleased than the text of this rewiew might suggest, but I have used this type of brush off and on for fifty years.
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