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Do you wander the brush aisles with glazed eyes staring at all the brushes shouting out at you, “Pick me, pick me, pick me”? Don’t be bullied and intimidated by brushes, just march right up to us, tell us what you want to do and make us show you what you need (and/or want).
| Princeton Brushes Robert Simmons Signet Series Brushes Silver Brush Grand Prix Silver Brush Ultra Mini Winsor & Newton Monarch Series Winsor & Newton Artist’s Watercolor Kolinsky Sable |
Winsor & Newton Galleria Series Winsor & Newton University Series Yasutomo Bamboo Brushes Weber Winter Harvest Kolinsky RGM Italian Painting Knives |
Oil Painting brushes are usually somewhat stiff long-handled brushes, often made of hog bristle – to stand up to the thick quality of oil paint.
Brushes for Watercolor Painting, on the other hand, are usually short handled, softer, absorbent brushes. They are preferably made from animal hair (squirrel. sable, goat or badger)
rather than synthetic, to load up and hold water and pigment as the stroke is drawn across the page.
Acrylic brushes have profited by improvements in synthetic brushes. As water-based
acrylics tend to soften organic oil painting brushes over the time of the painting session, the best brushes for acrylics are quality synthetic long handled brushes.
The kings and queens of brushes are the Kolinsky sable brushes for watercolor or fine detail work in oil or acrylic,
made from the hair of northern Siberian Kolinsky sables, harvested during the winter when the fur is fullest, with hair that is extremely durable yet amazingly supple and springy.
They are used both in watercolor and for fine detail work in oil or acrylic painting.