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What Brushes Are Best for Watercolor?

Watercolor paints are delicate and translucent, applied in layers that can change subtly from light to dark. Plus, because they are thinned with water and are easy to clean, watercolors also make a good traveling paint medium. Palettes and color boxes are usually small, as are the short-handled brushes that allow you to work in close proximity to the paper or canvas. Natural and synthetic bristles have sharp points and edges for executing fine details. Online retailers like Dick Blick Art Materials and Michaels stock many quality watercolor brushes and other art supplies. Here is some useful information about what to look for when buying your new brushes:

Natural Fiber Bristles

The best natural fiber watercolor brushes have bristles made from the fur of minks and sables, animals that come from the colder regions of Asia. Kolinsky sable brushes offer the highest quality because they spring back into shape easily, hold a lot of paint, and offer more control and faster action. You will pay much more for Kolinsky brushes than you will for sable blend and synthetic brushes, but the extra cost buys handmade craftsmanship and long-lasting quality. Less-expensive sable blend brushes offer flexibility and spring, while blending in hair from squirrels, oxen, ponies or goats also makes them as durable as most synthetic brushes.

Synthetic Brushes

These watercolor brushes are less expensive than natural bristle ones and come in firm, medium and soft bristles, all of which can be used with a variety of media besides watercolor (including acrylic paint, gouache and egg tempura). Synthetic brushes do have one drawback; they don't hold as much paint as natural bristles can, limiting the range of your brushstrokes and requiring you to refill the tool more often.

Brush Shapes

There are two main types of watercolor brushes, round and flat, and the swatches and lines you can get from using a particular size actually depends more on the pressure you apply to the brush, the paint and the canvas or paper. Larger brushes in both sizes are less accurate but will cover a large area fairly quickly, like for background colors. Longer, thinner round ones called riggers paint extremely narrow, sharp lines, while flat ones are good for painting square edges, like for windows and boxes. As a general rule, include a good mix of sizes and shapes in your toolbox, and start with the largest working down to the smallest brushes to fill in the details.

Brush Maintenance

Fortunately, watercolor paints are less likely to leave a mess and are easy to clean up with soap and water. To preserve the tips and sharp bristle lines, keep your brushes in a holder or lay them on a table while you work; you can warp the lines if you store your watercolor tools with their tips down. Rinse them and shake them to remove the water, reforming the tips with your fingers before storing them flat in a case.

 

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