How incredibly easy it is to oil paint these days, compared to the days of the old masters who had no industry. Back in the days of the great masters, if you wanted a paint brush, you would have to make your own. If you needed to scumble a passage on your portrait say, the Royal Duchess of Yawn has requested, and you needed a hog bristle brush, then you would have to trod over to your barn, pluck several hairs off the backside of your hog, clean and tie the hairs together, and glue them into the hollow shaft of a goose quill. Which by the way, you would need to pluck from your goose. Mind you, if–say your family had a fine feast of ham and goose for last Christmas, then you would need to obtain the needed hog hairs and goose quill from a kind and generous neighbor from across the valley.
For a paint brush handle you would need to find a stick and carve it into a long slender handle, which would then be glued into the other end of the shaft. A bit of twine or string would then be wound around the shaft for further stability. Oh, did I mention you will need to make your own glue. If its the same rabbit skin glue your using for sizing your own linen, then I assume you will need to gear up and head into the woods and hunt yourself a rabbit. And as long as your hunting for rabbit, you might as well save time by scouting for a weasel or two (as you will soon be in need of weasel hairs to make sable brushes for painting the fine passages of her Royal Highness’s satin High Tea apparel). I’m sure there is no doubt that somewhere along the way painters and their apprentices daydreamed of a magic button they could press and have all of the work of making paint brushes come to an end. I’m positive it was often a thought, as crazy a thought could be back then, to have brushes already assembled, and all a painter or an apprentice would have to do is pic the ones they want. Something unheard of and quite laughable if you were living in the days of peasant farmers.
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Personally the thought of making my own hog bristle brushes I would enjoy very much because I would have control over the size, quantity, and shape of the bristles. This is providing someone else lasso the hog and hold it steady while doing the plucking. What if the hog was in a bad mood? The mere thought of it looking at me gives me the willies. And if you didn’t own a hog, do you steal into your neighbor’s pig pen to do the plucking? I would imagine the old masters and other painters of the time exhausted all other options before coming to the conclusion that the hairs on a hog’s back made the best bristle brushes for scumbling and other fine oil painting techniques. Which is why to this day we consider hog bristle brushes made from real hog hair our best paint brush option for scumbling. They are a wee bit pricy, but if you never used a real hog hair brush for scumbling you might want to try them sometime. They are wonderful oil paint brushes.
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Today, we can sit comfortably in our easy chair, sip tea, and listen to Luciano Pavarotti while shopping online for our paint brushes. From what seems an endless assortment we choose the brushes we want, press a few buttons and the transactions of payment and shipping are complete. All in less time than it takes to convince a beastly, irritable hog to allow us a few burly hairs from his ugly back end. I for one am truly grateful to live in our modern times, to have industry, freedom, and the internet to shop, learn from and to share with others. And for all its worth, I shall be spending the time it would take otherwise to make brushes, to learn how to paint well. To search for meaningful subjects to paint. And to share with others.