Ok.. you crafty people.. if I am cutting small charms, earring, etc primarily out of inexpensive basswood. What is everyone’s preferred method and brand to paint details? I’m thinking of finding a set of paint pens with a fine tip and a range of colors. Anyone have any recommendations?
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I really like my Posca paints and I purchased an offbrand set of acrylic paint pens from Amazon I use a lot.
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I use shuttle art pen pens now, but I usually just use whatever cheap acrylic paint pens from Amazon. I prefer the ones that have 2 tips, a fine tip and a brush. I like the shuttle art ones because they are the thickness of a regular pen, so it’s easy for me to use.
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I use these for everything. They’re pretty cheap and a brush tip.
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Oh, that’s not a bad price! I’ll have to find something similar. My pens need replacing. I’ve been avoiding buying new ones.
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Link didn’t work, what are they called? Thanks
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justart acrylic paint pens
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When I’m working with small things like earrings, I love the extra fine tip paint pens. It’s not always easy to find them (sometimes they say that but aren’t really that fine, so you have to read the size). Posca has worked best for some things for this reason. But I haven’t looked for a while because I stocked up.
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I just looked now and one thing I noticed is that if you need super tiny (like 0.5mm) you might be able to find then easier if you search under “0.5mm acrylic paint pens nail art”
But if 0.7mm works fine, there are tons of options and I often would just buy whatever I could find the best deal for. At some point I might try Grabie because I have recently been trying out some of their other supplies (different project) but I can’t speak to their helpfulness for an application like this.
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That’s good advice. I do love my Poscas.
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I haven’t got a paint pen recommendation, but something I learned this year is that model paints also come in acrylic and the biggest difference from cheap craft paints is that the pigment is ground much finer, so it makes it much easier to paint small details and keep them looking good!
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they may not be as cheap, but the new sharpie creative paint markers have really really good coverage and are water based. i got some samples at adobe max back in october (and used some in their booth in the exhibit hall) and i was impressed. they’re a lot easier to use than standard oil markers (don’t have to shake them up and reink the tips), coverage is really even, supposedly waterproof and won’t bleed thru paper (i can attest to that).
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