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Master Brush Holding for Precision

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How to paint a straight line. Tips cutting in ceilings like a professional painter.

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  • 3-inch angle sash clear-cut brush

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right now. So, I'm going to go begin doing these cutins. And a couple of things to doing really good cutins is holding your brush properly when you're actually doing those cutins. I'm going to go over a little bit about how to actually hold a brush when you're doing your cut ends. And this is a method that I use. It actually works for me that will give me really, really good straight lines. So, I'm going to show you how I actually hold a brush. So, I have my paintbrush right here. And when I get ready to go do my cutins, I actually hold my brush just like this. I actually secure the brush on one side with my thumb. Hopefully, you can see that right there in this video. So I cure it with my thumb on the one side and then my other four fingers hold the brush on this side and that's what actually gives me a the ability to hold this brush in my hand and stabilize it and control it really well. So it's a four-fingered method. I'm holding it with four fingers in this side and my thumb on the opposite side. And then

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