Michael Shane Neal was a protégée of the nations leading artist and presidential portraitist Everett Raymond Kinstler (a second generation student of John Singer Sargent). Neal is the Grand Prize winner of the 2001 Portrait Society of America International Portrait Competition and recently received the Catherine Lorilland Wolfe Award from the National Arts Club and the Tara Fredrix Award from the Audubon Artists of America, both for landscape. In 2004, he received the Artist's Magazine Award of Excellence at the Oil Painters of America National Exhibition.

Neal's Bravura Professional set features the following brushes:

• 2 ea Grand Prix Premium Bristle Filbert 0
• 2 ea Grand Prix Premium Bristle Filbert 1
• 2 ea Grand Prix Premium Bristle Filbert 2
• 6 ea Grand Prix Premium Bristle Filbert 4
• 4 ea Grand Prix Premium Bristle Filbert 6
• 2 ea Grand Prix Premium Bristle Filbert 8
• 2 ea Grand Prix Premium Bristle Filbert 10
• 1 ea Grand Prix Premium Bristle Filbert 12
• 1 ea Grand Prix Premium Bristle Round 4
• 1 ea Silverstone White Bristle Flat 12
• 1 ea Silverstone White Bristle Filbert 20
• 1 ea Silverstone White Bristle Fan 6
• 1 ea Silverstone White Bristle Fan 8
• 1 ea Silverstone White Bristle Fan 10
• 2 ea Renaissance Red Sable Bright 2
• 2 ea Renaissance Red Sable Bright 4
• 2 ea Renaissance Red Sable Bright 6
• 1 ea Renaissance Red Sable Cat's Tongue 4
• 1 ea Renaissance Red Sable Cat's Tongue 6