{"id":2299,"date":"2011-02-21T22:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T03:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2014-12-14T20:33:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T01:33:42","slug":"fan-brush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/fan-brush\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan Brush"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fan Brushes, 2011, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

These brushes, with their bristles splayed out in the shape of an unfurled hand fan, are used by both makeup artists and oil painters.\u00a0 With makeup<\/a>, they’re often used to blend powders and eyeshadows, or to gently remove fallen eye shadow from the cheeks.\u00a0 Oil painters generally use them dry, flicking them crosswise across still-workable paint to obscure visible brush marks or to blend tonal transitions to perfect smoothness.\u00a0 Some also use them to apply paint, especially to simulate textures like hair or grass.\u00a0 Bob Ross<\/a>, the happy host of the 1980’s “Joy of Painting” TV shows, was a fan-brush enthusiast, using it for many landscape effects such as trees and clouds.\u00a0 I always hated his painting style, but Bob Ross probably provided my first exposure to this versatile tool.<\/p>\n

I’m not an oil painter and am temperamentally opposed to blending.\u00a0 I generally use fan brushes not to make things smoother or less brush-strokey, but to make them rougher and more brush-strokey.\u00a0 I like using them with sumi ink, straight up.<\/p>\n

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Silvana Dance, 2000, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

Changing the angle at which the brush contacts the paper makes a thinner or thicker mark.\u00a0 Applying one edge to the paper gives a thin but bold line.\u00a0 Turning the brush flat to the paper causes the bristles to spread out and lay down thin parallel strokes over the width of the brush.\u00a0 These lines are particularly delicate when the brush is fairly dry.\u00a0 I’ve done a lot of drawing from observations of moving dancers.\u00a0 The fan brush gives a feeling of movement, and also can fill in shadow areas or create a feeling of the volume of a body with very simple, spontaneous strokes.<\/p>\n

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Des, 1999, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ground, 2006, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

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Open and Coil, 2008, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ceremony, 2006, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

The fan brush works this way with any kind of ink, including colored inks.<\/p>\n

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Invoking, 2006, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s a very quick way to make cross-contours<\/a>, giving volume to a line-drawn figure.<\/p>\n

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Crouch, 2009, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

For more traditional observational drawing, the fan brush is not an easy tool to master, but I like to challenge myself sometimes.\u00a0 It’s like trying to eat soup with a fork.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure both of the sketches below were drawn using the fan brush only.\u00a0 The edges are drawn with the corner of the brush, and the shading, hair, etc. are done with the flat.<\/p>\n

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Standing, 2008, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ryan, 2008, by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

I like to use the fan brush with body paint, too.\u00a0 It can quickly depict flowing textures such as flames or feathers.<\/p>\n

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Blue Heron, 2004, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

The swirly parallel strokes of the fan brush suggest the energy within the body.<\/p>\n

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Blue Raynn, 2004, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fiery Back and Hand, 2001, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fire Heart, 2001, bodypaint and photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

That last one is a detail of the body painting featured at the top of the post “Fire in the Belly<\/a>“.\u00a0 Now that I’ve shown you what to look for, you’ll probably be able to spot the tell-tale stripes of the fan brush elsewhere among my body paintings and ink brush drawings, on this blog or at my portfolio site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These brushes, with their bristles splayed out in the shape of an unfurled hand fan, are used by both makeup artists and oil painters.\u00a0 With makeup, they’re often used to blend powders and eyeshadows, or to gently remove fallen eye shadow from the cheeks.\u00a0 Oil painters generally use them dry, flicking them crosswise across still-workable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[225,10],"tags":[23,17,41,270,22],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists-tools-and-resources","category-bodyart","tag-bodypaint","tag-figures","tag-ink-brush","tag-movement-drawing","tag-technique"],"yoast_head":"\nFan Brush - 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