Variety of brushes for a variety of colors

   When an artists comes to the conclusion that they want to start a painting, they need to get their supplies to create the piece. They need the paint (and everything else that has to "activate" their choice of paint), their canvas, an idea of what they are going to be painting, and of course, their brushes. This could be crucial to creating a piece because the choice of brushes really affect how easy or difficult it can be to create the painting. For example a brush with a thin tip will be much more tedious to color a whole canvas with that small tip, rather than a brush that has more bristles. It's not impossible to use the thin ended brush, just a lot more work.
   Let's start with the basics.

   These are not all the types of brushes out there, but it's only here to give you a good idea of what I am talking about. In the example I used before, a Pointed Round brush would be much harder to color a whole canvas with one color rather than a Bright or Flat brush in which there are much more bristles to cover the canvas, thus having more paint being splattered on.
   Each brush has it's purpose. The Round is good to use when creating thin marks such as filling in spaces or just adding detail to the painting. The Point Round is also very well used for adding detail and retouching your piece but the strokes are much more thin. The Flat and Bright brushes can both be used to create heavy strokes except the Bright brush would probably be used better up close rather than just applying the paint all loosely like the Flat Brush. The Filbert can be a combination of both a Round brush and a Flat brush because of it's thin point and because of how flat the bristles are. The fan brush however can be able to create unique strokes. It can be able to apply hair-like strokes and textures on the picture for leaves on a tree, or on a cloud in the sky. The angular flat can be able to create curved strokes, and is able to fill in spaces like all the other types of flat brushes. Then lastly, the detailed brush does what is named. It gives details to the paintings for it's small amount of bristles it has at the end of the brush.
   These are just a few out of many types of brushes. These are just here to start you off when creating your piece for the first time, or your second, or to refresh your memory in what the most common types of brushes do. Make sure to get the ones you need to create your piece, and you'll be just fine :)