Use a Badger Blender to soften edges and blend colors. Gives a smooth surface. Badger hair is soft and flexible. It's great for creating clouds and faux marble effects.

Da Vinci Pastel Blenders are handmade from ultra-soft, pastel-friendly Pony hair. They are perfect for creating special effects and controlled blending in pastels. Choose either a straight or slanted edge.

The softener is a brush favored by painters and indoor muralists working on a large scale, such as scenery painters working for the opera and theater.

Use Dynasty's Black Bristle Oval Sash encaustic brushes when you need a springy bristle to pull a large amount of hot wax over 3-D areas, or to work paper into layers of wax. They're great for blending, for exact layering, and for overlapping color.

From Dynasty's Work Horse Series, these Bristle and Ox Blend encaustic brushes contain a mixture of hair that is good for holding large amounts of wax at different temperatures and different consistencies. Great for achieving smooth applications.

Dynasty's Red-Letter Encaustic Camel Hair Super Mop brushes are great for blending and smoothing out small areas. They're also ideal for applying powdered pigments - just dust them lightly over hot or tacky wax.

The extra-long length of Dynasty's Red-Letter White Bristle Extra Long Flat encaustic brushes assures a smooth, even flow while achieving definition. They're great for layering wax and paper, for 3-D work, or for applying texture to your work.

Dynasty's Red-Letter Encaustic Scenic Fitch brush is made of natural Shanghai Bristle. Originally developed for fresco, mural, and theatrical background use, these brushes hold a lot of color and still offer great control. Also for faux finishing.

Escoda's Badger Blender is the perfect edge softener, made of soft, natural badger hair. Badger hair of this quality is hard to come by! Use it for blending and glazing. The Series 6835 brush is hand-mounted on a varnished wood block and handle.

Traditional pastel painting has never had the benefit of a wide assortment of speicalized tools for applying color. In this collection you'll a selection of tools for blending, cleaning, over glazing, and removal of unwanted color.

This soft badger hair chiqueter brush features hand-tied quills fixed to a long, flat natural polished handle. It is flat with two square-edged locks. This is a truly unique brush for the discerning artist.

Silver Soft Blenders are made from the finest naturally-tipped super-soft white goat hair. Available in medium and large flat shapes. They are ideal for marbellized color areas, gently blending woodgrains, or softening antiqued surfaces.

This oval mop blender is made from the finest naturally-tipped, super-soft white goat hair. An oval mop is perfect for softening veins in marbelizing.