Sponge paint brush for walls

Sponge painting often gets relegated to adding texture to terrain, or for doing a bit of quick weathering on tanks, but it can be a valuable tool to all sorts of painting schemes from gritty blanchitsu-esque grimdarkness to helping with fine blending work in high colours.

I love sponge painting, and it’s coming close to replacing the brush altogether for everything other than faces and eyes and it’s only a matter of time until I use it for those too.

In this article we’ll go over “traditional” sponge painting for weathering and texture, using sponges to highlight and how to use a sponge to paint a marine in record time.

What You’ll Need

Sponges.

Plural.

That’s a simple answer but as you try out sponge painting you’ll find different sponges are useful for different things.

Round sponge paint brush

For our purposes, sponges are (at least) semi-flexible materials with air pockets that hold liquid. They’re usually made out of some kind of plastic foam. That foam creates air pockets give them a textured surface. Depending on

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