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42 Colors Watercolor Paint Set! What Makes Our Watercolor Paint Set the Best? - Wonderful Transparency - Clean, Crisp Colors. Permanence - Excellent Lightfastness. Great Tinting Strength. I wouldn’t use these for watercolor painting at home - the brush tip doesn’t have the same qualities as watercolor brushes and you’ll likely end up frustrated. However, these are useful for sketching watercolors on the go, adding color to ink drawings, and would work great with watercolor pencils.
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Aspen™ retains its shape for control and placement of color, paint releases and glides evenly off the synthetic hairs. The brush can be used with all acrylic and oil paints including water-soluble oils. The non-glare ferrule makes Aspen™ perfect for outdoor painting.
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Velvetouch™ is comprised of a multiple-filament, luxury synthetic blend for excellent color-holding capacity, precision tapering and resilient spring.
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Created by the fine craftsmen of Princeton. A vast line of 29 distinct shapes, 108 individual brushes created for oil, acrylic and watercolor artists.
View the Select™ SeriesCatalyst™ Polytip Bristle brushes are another Princeton breakthrough that advances the science of synthetic hair. This new series is super stiff yet still extremely responsive.
View the Catalyst™ Polytip SeriesWhen we set out to create a synthetic version of squirrel, we developed a brush that may actually outperform the natural version.
View the Neptune™ SeriesKolinsky Sable Brushes have long been recognized as the standard of excellence, the comparative benchmark of how other natural and synthetic watercolor brushes perform.
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While all artists need good materials, finding a high-quality brush should be a top priority for watercolor painters. With rising brush prices, more artists are trying other materials and will experiment with a variety of materials and styles before finding their favorite brushes. Artists who create large works will need much larger brushes than artists preferring small, detailed work.
In most cases, it’s better to select a few good brushes, such as a couple medium-size round and a flat brush instead of trying to collect a full range of sizes and styles. Good quality rounds and flats can provide most of the strokes which specialty styles offer. You can also experiment with different types of brushes to find the types of brushes to suit your painting style best. As a rule, Kolinsky sable hair still claims the highest rank among artist’s brushes although it has become a rare commodity. Synthetic brushes on the other hand have improved tremendously over the years.
This list will help you find some of the best watercolor brushes in 2021 available today based on their ratings and how well they meet the following criteria. Regardless of their material or style, watercolor brushes should have cleanly-trimmed tips, full bristles, and sturdy hardwood handles. The best brands will also have rustproof ferrules fastening the brush to the handle.
Many of these brushes would work for oil paints or acrylics as well, but it’s better not to mix media and to designate individual brushes for one medium only.