A decorator judges the quality of a brush based on several factors : filament retention, paint pickup, steadiness of paint release, brush marks, drag and precision painting.
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Brown comments on his three-dimensional use of brushstrokes as follows : " I see the sculptural brush marks as challenging the logic of paint in that they appear to defy gravity by actually staying upright.
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Older automatic washes-a majority of which were built prior to 1980-used to use brushes with soft nylon bristles, which tended to leave a nylon deposit in the shape of a bristle, called brush marks, on the vehicle's paint.
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Such a brush will hold more paint, not show brush marks, and ease the tricky job of " cutting in " _ painting the edge of a wall or ceiling without getting paint where it is not supposed to be, and without using masking tape.