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Oil & Acrylic Brushes
Escoda Chungking Bristle Brushes
Escoda Takatsu Brushes
Liquitex Free Style Large Scale Brushes
Plaza Georgetown Bristle Brushes
Plaza Montgomery Synthetic Mongoose Brushes
Plaza Richmond Synthetic Sable Brushes
Princeton Series 6100 Brushes
Princeton Series 6300 Brushes
Raphael Red Sable Brushes
Robert Simmons Signet Natural Bristle Brushes
Silver Brush Grand Prix Premium Bristle Brushes
Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Brushes
Winsor & Newton Eclipse Black Sable (Fitch) Brushes
Winsor & Newton Monarch Brushes
Watercolor & Gouache Brushes
Escoda Tame Fiber Brushes
Niji Waterbrushes
Plaza Fairfax Taklon Brushes
Princeton Series 4050 Brushes
Raphael Kolinsky Sable Brushes
Winsor & Newton Artists' Water Color Sable Brushes
Winsor & Newton Series 7 Sable Brushes
Winsor & Newton Wash & One Stroke Brushes
All Media & Craft Brushes
Foam Brushes & Sets
Varnish & Wash Brushes
Escoda Gold Toray Mottlers
Sumi & Oriental Painting Brushes
Princeton Bamboo Watercolor Brushes
Winsor & Newton Hake Brushes
Gesso Brushes
Princeton Gesso Brushes
Travel Brushes
Escoda Kolinsky-Tajmyr Pocket Brushes
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Brushes are possibly the most important investment an artist can make, because the quality of the brush used has almost as much power to damage or beautify a work as the orchestrating artist. Although certain brushes are recommended for specific types of media, brush selection should be based on personal choice.
Long handle brushes are generally good for oil and acrylic painting and short handle brushes for watercolor - this is based on the painter's distance from the artwork. Because acrylics dry quickly, they can damage the hairs on a natural brush more easily than a synthetic. Therefore, synthetic brushes can be recommended for acrylics. Bristle brushes are often recommended for the beginning oil painter because they're economical and hold a good deal of paint. Natural soft hair brushes absorb water well and are good for watercolors.
Brush construction is an intricate and impressive process that seemingly defies our age of technology. The brush heads of natural brushes are still shaped by hand and the tips of the brushes are the natural tips of the hairs on the animal. Any cutting and shaping that is done to the brush hair takes place on the side of the hair that is bound within the ferrule. Most brushes have three parts: a tuft of natural or synthetic hairs, a ferrule and a handle. The hairs are arranged and then centered into the ferrule. The best brushes have ferrules that are seamless to keep solvents from leaking inside. |
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