Brushes & Painting Tools

Featuring high-quality nickel-plated brass ferrules, synthetic bristled Cotman brushes have excellent pigment load retention and are best suited for water based mediums. This short-handled flat brush is ideal for creating washes, edges or shapes, and its clear handle has a beveled tip for burnishing or scraping.

Care: Paintbrush care is essential to maintaining their condition and extending their life span. Always clean brushes before the paint dries. Using a hydrating paintbrush cleaner after using Taltine or soap prevents bristles from drying and helps maintain their suppleness.

Watercolour: Clean with warm water.

Oil: Dip the paintbrush in a solvent such as Taltine. Clean with warm soapy water and a clear water rinse.

Acrylic: Clean with warm soapy water and a clear water rinse.

Flat brush featuring synthetic bristles and a long, ebony-tainted handle. Ideal for details, retouching and finishing touches when painting in acrylics.

• Textura = Springiness + Strength, the ideal tool for thick painting work. The range of Textura brushes is especially aimed at artists who paint using impasto techniques and want to create relief effects using this acrylics and structure gels. The brushes are made using very strong, short, rigid synthetic fibres and off an excellent response to thick colours and mediums.
• Ferrule: Long, mat nickeled-brass
• Long handle
• Raphaël brushes have been in production since 1793.

Care:

Caring for paintbrushes is essential to keeping them in good working condition and to their life span.

Watercolours: dip the paintbrush in water and rinse in warm water.

Oil: dip the paintbrush in a solvent such as taltine. Clean in soapy water and rinse in warm water.

Acrylic: clean in soapy water and rinse in warm water.

Practical information:

Never let dry before cleaning.

Using a hydrating paintbrush cleaner after using taltine or soap prevents bristles from drying and keeps the supple shape of the paintbrush.
  

Made from quality Chinese hog bristles, Winsor and Newton Hog brushes are interlock constructed and hand-set into seamless corrosion-resistant ferrules. Ideal for painting with oils or acrylics, this long-handled Filbert brush features a flat head with an oval tip for creating broad marks with a soft edge.

 Care: Paintbrush care is essential to maintaining their condition and extending their life span. Always clean brushes before the paint dries. Using a hydrating paintbrush cleaner after using Taltine or soap prevents bristles from drying and helps maintain their suppleness.

Watercolour: Clean with warm water.

Oil: Dip the paintbrush in a solvent such as Taltine. Clean with warm soapy water and a clear water rinse.

Acrylic: Clean with warm soapy water and a clear water rinse.

This synthetic paintbrush is very versatile. It absorbs enough water for any water media, like watercolours, inks and gouache. Its also strong enough to carry your acrylic paint around your canvas. It's silky smooth  hair will prevent brushstrokes in your paint. The ferrule is nickel plated.

Snow brushes are made using longer—lasting synthetic hog hair bristles that cooperate better than natural bristles across a broad range of mediums. Modeled to look and feel like hog bristle brushes, this series is perfect for painters who quickly switch from oils to acrylics or water—soluble oils.

Care: Paintbrush care is essential to maintaining their condition and extending their life span. Always clean brushes before the paint dries. Using a hydrating paintbrush cleaner after using Taltine or soap prevents bristles from drying and helps maintain their suppleness.

Watercolour: Clean with warm water.

Oil: Dip the paintbrush in a solvent such as Taltine. Clean with warm soapy water and a clear water rinse.

Acrylic: Clean with warm soapy water and a clear water rinse.

Black foam brush. Ideal for painting large surfaces quickly and evenly. Perfect for painting walls, furniture, frames, etc.

This synthetic paintbrush is very versatile. It absorbs enough water for any water media, like watercolours, inks and gouache. Its also strong enough to carry your acrylic paint around your canvas. It's silky smooth  hair will prevent brushstrokes in your paint. The ferrule is nickel plated.

Black foam brush. Ideal for painting large surfaces quickly and evenly. Perfect for painting walls, furniture, frames, etc.

Made of naturally refined linseed oil, this linseed soap safely cleans and conditions brushes of all types. Its non-toxic, low-odour properties also make it ideal for cleaning floors, work surfaces, and even your hands after a painting session.

Strong, resilient and specifically designed for use with acrylic colour, Galeria brushes feature a mix of synthetic filaments for extra responsiveness and shape retention. This short-handled round brush is perfect for delicate details, lines, glazes and close-up work.

Care: Paintbrush care is essential to maintaining their condition and extending their life span. Always clean brushes before the paint dries. Using a hydrating paintbrush cleaner after using Taltine or soap prevents bristles from drying and helps maintain their suppleness.

Watercolour: Clean with warm water.

Oil: Dip the paintbrush in a solvent such as Taltine. Clean with warm soapy water and a clear water rinse.

Acrylic: Clean with warm soapy water and a clear water rinse.