BLICK Brushes and Painting Tools

Crafted with care. Interlocked hairs have flagged tips and are never trimmed to shape. Bleached traditional grade natural bristle. The right choice for value and standard performance. A giant step above scholastic grade product that floods the market.

Blick Academic Synthetic brushes are time-tested and have plenty of spring and good flow characteristics.

Our popular White Synthetic Brushes offer great control, especially with acrylics. We've engineered the filament to be slightly less firm. It is excellent for thinner applications of color, and imparts little evidence of brush stroke to the paint surface.

Synthetics are a perfect match for oil and acrylic paints in a classroom setting because they're easier to clean than animal hair brushes, are more durable, and can withstand harsh elements of acrylic paints, with less damage.

These very affordable brush sets are great for students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. For good quality at a reasonable price, choose Blick Essentials Bristle Value Brush Sets — for every media, technique, and project.

Available in a range of shapes, sizes, and hair types, these very affordable brush sets are great for students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. For good quality at a reasonable price, choose Blick Essentials Brown Nylon Value Brush Sets — for every media, technique, and project.

Available in a range of shapes, sizes, and hair types, these very affordable brush sets are great for students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. For good quality at a reasonable price, choose Blick Essentials Craft Value Brush Set — for every media, technique, and project.

Blick Essentials Foam Value Brushes are an affordable choice for all types of artists — students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. They offer good quality at a reasonable price, for every type of media, painting technique, and project.

Available in a range of shapes, sizes, and hair types, these very affordable brush sets are great for students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. For good quality at a reasonable price, choose Blick Essentials White Nylon Value Brush Sets — for every media, technique, and project.

The best possible natural bristle is bleached to a pristine bone appearance. Blick's Master Bristle is made a bit tougher than our Studio Bristle to satisfy more physical painters. Gluing is done by hand to ensure the best possible hair retention.

This is a distinctive brush made of five diameters and three lengths of an exclusive Polymide filament. Each strand is tapered to a precise tip, much like natural hair.

Redesigned to meet the standards of our other Masterstroke brushes, this professional grade of Golden Taklon is carefully engineered with tapered filaments to mimic the belly and point of natural hair.

The Interlocking Hog Bristle series is one of our finest brush lines, and the finest hog bristle you'll find. The very best craftsmanship goes into each brush, from the top-quality, hand selected white bristle to the accent of gold on the tip of the matte-black handles.

Blick Masterstroke Synthetic Sable Brush Set looks like sable, feels like sable, and handles like sable, without the cost of sable. One each: short-handled pointed round, long-handled round, long-handled flat, and short-handled one-stroke.

Blick Mega Brushes are perfect for big projects. A mid-level of firmness makes our Natural Bristle brushes the most spontaneous and expressive of our bristles. High-quality brush hairs are set in nickel-plated brass ferrules. Short hardwood handles.

Students will love the professional feel and results these brushes deliver. The hair is 100% hog bristle - an economical, high-performance hair, ideal for spreading medium to thick paints smoothly and evenly. Natural wood handles have a blue gloss finish.

Blick Scholastic Wonder White Brushes come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. White Taklon filaments deliver the texture and responsiveness of Red Sable, but are more durable after repeated exposure to paints and solvents. Blue gloss-finished handles; nickel-plated brass ferrules.

The Blick Studio Bristle is a truly beautiful, yet affordable brush, with our most impressive range of shapes and sizes. Unbleached natural bristle from China. A mid-level of firmness makes these the most spontaneous and expressive of our Bristles.

A synthetic brush that actually feels like a bristle brush! The result of years of development, the individual filaments have the extreme taper of natural bristle and are gently coaxed with heat to a natural curve. Brushes retain their stiffness in water.

Crafted with care. Interlocked hairs have flagged tips and are never trimmed to shape. Bleached traditional grade natural bristle. The right choice for value and standard performance. A giant step above scholastic grade product that floods the market.

A hard-wearing, multi-purpose brush in economical 100% natural black bristle, perfect for oil, acrylic or tempera. The long wooden handles have seamless polished aluminum ferrules.

A hard-wearing, multi-purpose brush in economical 100% natural black bristle, perfect for oil, acrylic or tempera. The long wooden handles have seamless polished aluminum ferrules.

Synthetics are a perfect match for oil and acrylic paints in a classroom setting because they're easier to clean than animal hair brushes, are more durable, and can withstand harsh elements of acrylic paints, with less damage.

Extra-long, white hog bristle fills these excellent-quality brushes. They are especially useful for beginning oil and acrylic painting because they are thick enough to push heavy paint around with ease.

These very affordable brush sets are great for students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. For good quality at a reasonable price, choose Blick Essentials Bristle Value Brush Sets — for every media, technique, and project.

Available in a range of shapes, sizes, and hair types, these very affordable brush sets are great for students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. For good quality at a reasonable price, choose Blick Essentials Brown Nylon Value Brush Sets — for every media, technique, and project.

The best possible natural bristle is bleached to a pristine bone appearance. Blick's Master Bristle is made a bit tougher than our Studio Bristle to satisfy more physical painters. Gluing is done by hand to ensure the best possible hair retention.

The full belly of the male Kolinsky in these brushes allows greater control and fantastic fluid capacity. The brush fibers are hand-shaped with extreme care and triple crimped to the Italian hardwood handle.

The stiff yet ultra-soft filaments in these beautiful synthetic brushes are great for blending and softening within oil paintings, but also work well for faux finishing, adding texture, glazing, varnishing, glass painting, and art conservation.

This is a distinctive brush made of five diameters and three lengths of an exclusive Polymide filament. Each strand is tapered to a precise tip, much like natural hair.

Hand-selected and hand-cupped by skilled artisans, the highly resilient hair in Blick Masterstroke Pure Red Sable Brushes offers unsurpassed spring, snap, and control. Hand-glued into seamless, nickel-plated brass ferrules and crimped to gold-tipped, matte black, solid wood handles.

The Interlocking Hog Bristle series is one of our finest brush lines, and the finest hog bristle you'll find. The very best craftsmanship goes into each brush, from the top-quality, hand selected white bristle to the accent of gold on the tip of the matte-black handles.

This set of six offers a mixture of natural and synthetic hair, supplying softness and strength. All have long handles.

Students will love the professional feel and results these brushes deliver. The hair is 100% hog bristle - an economical, high-performance hair, ideal for spreading medium to thick paints smoothly and evenly. Natural wood handles have a blue gloss finish.

Blick Scholastic Wonder White Brushes come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. White Taklon filaments deliver the texture and responsiveness of Red Sable, but are more durable after repeated exposure to paints and solvents. Blue gloss-finished handles; nickel-plated brass ferrules.

The Blick Studio Bristle is a truly beautiful, yet affordable brush, with our most impressive range of shapes and sizes. Unbleached natural bristle from China. A mid-level of firmness makes these the most spontaneous and expressive of our Bristles.

More than a brush - a return to tradition. Fitch is a traditional and rare hair for oil painting similar to mongoose and sable. Our Fitch is super smooth, ideal for blending and portrait painting. It's great for detail or portrait work.

A synthetic brush that actually feels like a bristle brush! The result of years of development, the individual filaments have the extreme taper of natural bristle and are gently coaxed with heat to a natural curve. Brushes retain their stiffness in water.

Great for watercolor or ink painting or calligraphic-style lettering, the "Mr. Big Cat Jr." Brush is a handsome brush made of soft goat hair covered by select pony hair. It's hand-set in a plastic ferrule on a plastic handle.

Blick's Academic Red Sable series was designed to provide advanced students with a watercolor brush that is excellent and yet affordable, especially in larger sizes. The fine red sable hair is sorted and selected in England, and 15-20% of each lot is rej

Blick Academic Synthetic brushes are time-tested and have plenty of spring and good flow characteristics.

Our popular White Synthetic Brushes offer great control, especially with acrylics. We've engineered the filament to be slightly less firm. It is excellent for thinner applications of color, and imparts little evidence of brush stroke to the paint surface.

For watercolors, ink, and Japanese calligraphic lettering. Long, tapered point of soft, dyed goat hair is handset in plastic ferrule with plastic bamboo handle. Sizes 2, 4, and 6. Also set.

These brushes deliver the superior paint-holding ability of natural hair at an unbeatable price. A popular choice for watercolor painting, our "camel" hair is actually composed of 100% pony hair.

Synthetics are a perfect match for oil and acrylic paints in a classroom setting because they're easier to clean than animal hair brushes, are more durable, and can withstand harsh elements of acrylic paints, with less damage.

Taklon is a type of synthetic filament that is dyed and baked to make it softer and more absorbent. Exceptionally easy to clean, this economical grade of Golden Taklon withstands the caustic nature of solvents and acrylic paints better than animal hair.

A combination of 60% ox and 40% pony hair makes this brush exceptionally affordable and an excellent all-around brush for students exploring the use of thicker, heavier colors. Long handle with green gloss finish and a seamless, polished aluminum ferrule.

One of the most popular choices for watercolor brushes due to its strength, spring and ability to retain its shape. Bristles are set on a shorter, watercolor-size natural wooden handle with a green gloss finish. Seamless polished aluminum ferrule.

Available in a range of shapes, sizes, and hair types, these very affordable brush sets are great for students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. For good quality at a reasonable price, choose Blick Essentials Brown Nylon Value Brush Sets — for every media, technique, and project.

Available in a range of shapes, sizes, and hair types, these very affordable brush sets are great for students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. For good quality at a reasonable price, choose Blick Essentials White Nylon Value Brush Sets — for every media, technique, and project.

Handmade in Japan, these superb Hake blending and wash brushes are ideal for blending watercolors and applying gesso, paste, varnish. Each brush is filled by hand with an abundance of the highest quality goat hair, and stitched into unpolished handles.

The full belly of the male Kolinsky in these brushes allows greater control and fantastic fluid capacity. The brush fibers are hand-shaped with extreme care and triple crimped to the Italian hardwood handle.

Every Blick Master Natural Pure Squirrel brush is crafted of pure Kazan Squirrel, formed by hand by the same craftsmen who produce our finest Master Sable brushes. Squirrel has excellent capacity and a tendency to release paint to the surface with more immediacy.

Hand-selected and hand-cupped by skilled artisans, the highly resilient hair in Blick Masterstroke Pure Red Sable Brushes offers unsurpassed spring, snap, and control. Hand-glued into seamless, nickel-plated brass ferrules and crimped to gold-tipped, matte black, solid wood handles.

Redesigned to meet the standards of our other Masterstroke brushes, this professional grade of Golden Taklon is carefully engineered with tapered filaments to mimic the belly and point of natural hair.

Square-ended brush holds a crisp edge and has good resiliency. Made with soft Taklon and natural ox hair, dyed to resemble red sable. Short varnished handle and seamless flat nickel ferrule.

Blick Masterstroke Synthetic Sable Brush Set looks like sable, feels like sable, and handles like sable, without the cost of sable. One each: short-handled pointed round, long-handled round, long-handled flat, and short-handled one-stroke.

Premier travel brushes with only the highest quality Winter Male Kolinsky Red Sable hair. Expertly shaped to provide excellent spring, resiliency, color and water-carrying capacity. Compact yet functional portable metal casing.

Soft and strong, these 100% natural hair brushes are the workhorses of our Scholastic Collection. They're inexpensive, yet effective for watercolor and touch-up work.

Easy to clean and exceptionally durable, this better grade of Golden Taklon is an excellent choice for oils and acrylics, because it stands up to solvents and acrylic paints very well.

This is an excellent all-around workhorse for students painting with thicker, heavier colors. Dependable craftsmanship gives this brush nice balance. The hairs offer good resiliency and snap. This brush has a natural wood handle with a blue gloss finish.

Our Scholastic Pony brush has smooth textured hair, ideal for applying lots of color on flat or textured watercolor surfaces. Use this brush for painting in large areas of color. This brush has short natural wooden blue-painted handles.

Excellent quality and traditional craftsmanship make our Scholastic Red Sable a value appreciated by beginning or professional artists. Offering snap and resiliency, they handle watercolors beautifully. Natural wooden handles with a blue gloss finish.

Blick Scholastic Wonder White Brushes come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. White Taklon filaments deliver the texture and responsiveness of Red Sable, but are more durable after repeated exposure to paints and solvents. Blue gloss-finished handles; nickel-plated brass ferrules.

These brushes are made of pure, fine blue squirrel hair for maximum color capacity. The hairs of the round brush are blended with select A-grade goat hair to produce a brush that offers a new level of performance and value. More spring than pure squirrel.

Step up to real Kolinsky Sable sourced from the cold northwest region of Asia. The natural snap and the impressive capacity of these brushes are their hallmark. Slightly softer than our Blick Master series, they impart a lush wash, and a pleasing point.

The best value in our line! Premium "Sableine" Synthetic in up to five diameters gives this brush great fluid capacity and a soft responsive touch that mimics Sable convincingly. The hairs are dyed to give a more natural appearance.

Wonder White is a white taklon fiber that has the texture and responsiveness of red sable, but with greater durability. The brush has a sharp point with good spring, great for water-based media.

Blick Comfort Grip Palette Knives are crafted in Italy from black anodized stainless steel that adds a neutral black background to your knife as you lift colors, and is non-reflective. Perfect for plein air or studio painting, these knives are easy to clean and will provide years of dependable use.

This knife set is a glorious expression of Italian craftsmanship. An exclusive set of five handcrafted black anodized stainless steel blades comes with multi-colored ergonomic rubber handles for cool looks and a comfortable grip.

This palette knife has a tapered, 3" (76 mm) steel blade of extra-flexible tool metal on a long, balanced wooden handle.

Blick Palette Knives by RGM are tempered and ground by hand for consistent flexibility and quality. They feature solid brass ferrules and ergonomic wood handles that are comfortable to hold.They're both handsome and comfortable to hold.

Blick's Glaze Detail Brush Set will help you capture those final details that make your project come to life. This set of seven brushes is perfect for glazing.

The Blick Cosmetic Brush Set contains seven professional-quality brushes designed specifically for cosmetic and makeup application. Every brush is handmade in Europe from fine multi-diameter synthetic filaments. Black, brass-plated ferrules; birch handles; roll pouch.

These exceptionally affordable, flat-head brushes feature 100% hog bristle made especially for stencil application, which requires a tapping technique. Brushes have short natural wooden handles with round seamless aluminum ferrules.

Created with the highest quality multi diameter Golden Nylon hairs, Blick Egg Handle Brushes have the full rich feel and appearance of sable. The hairs are set in an ergonomic handle that makes painting a pleasure for any artist.

Available in a range of shapes, sizes, and hair types, these very affordable brush sets are great for students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. For good quality at a reasonable price, choose Blick Essentials Craft Value Brush Set — for every media, technique, and project.

Blick Essentials Foam Value Brushes are an affordable choice for all types of artists — students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. They offer good quality at a reasonable price, for every type of media, painting technique, and project.

When teaching classes on mural painting, a good stencil brush is a must. Our Scholastic White Bristle line has a better quality hair that will give a clean look to your stenciling techniques. These well priced, flat-head brushes feature 100% hog bristle.

Blick Studio Decoratives are a premium approach to synthetic brushes for decorative artists and (watercolorists). Multiple diameters of high quality Golden Taklon fibers are assembled in a truly good-looking package.

Great for watercolor or ink painting or calligraphic-style lettering, the "Mr. Big Cat Jr." Brush is a handsome brush made of soft goat hair covered by select pony hair. It's hand-set in a plastic ferrule on a plastic handle.

For watercolors, ink, and Japanese calligraphic lettering. Long, tapered point of soft, dyed goat hair is handset in plastic ferrule with plastic bamboo handle. Sizes 2, 4, and 6. Also set.

This pointed-hair brush is great for Japanese calligraphic writing or painting. It features a plastic handle and dyed goat hair.

Low-cost lettering brush has a mixture of soft, natural hairs to form a sharp, reliable edge. Set in seamless, aluminum ferrule on a short green, lacquered handle. Widths to 1". Also available in a set of 4.

These traditional lettering brushes are crafted to stand up to the rigors of classroom use with ink and sign paint. They are effective for painting on glass and other smooth surfaces.

Handmade in Japan, these superb Hake blending and wash brushes are ideal for blending watercolors and applying gesso, paste, varnish. Each brush is filled by hand with an abundance of the highest quality goat hair, and stitched into unpolished handles.

Extra-long shape holds a larger load of color, and the square end delivers a sharp edge. Nickel-plated seamless ferrules, short black lacquered handles. Widths to 3/4".

Extremely long-haired brushes with square tips, for striping and outlining type. Short handles for greater control, mounted with seamless, nickel-plated ferrules. Sizes 3/0-10.

Blick Scholastic Wonder White Brushes come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. White Taklon filaments deliver the texture and responsiveness of Red Sable, but are more durable after repeated exposure to paints and solvents. Blue gloss-finished handles; nickel-plated brass ferrules.

The soft, white goat hair in this Blick White Hair Sumi Brush tapers to a workable point. The short plastic handle works well for ceramics, watercolor, sumi-e, and calligraphy.

A hard-wearing, multi-purpose brush in economical 100% natural black bristle, perfect for oil, acrylic or tempera. The long wooden handles have seamless polished aluminum ferrules.

A hard-wearing, multi-purpose brush in economical 100% natural black bristle, perfect for oil, acrylic or tempera. The long wooden handles have seamless polished aluminum ferrules.

This pure bristle brush is great for varnishing, glazing, gessoing and applying finishes of all kinds. Short, natural wood handle.

These very affordable brush sets are great for students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. For good quality at a reasonable price, choose Blick Essentials Bristle Value Brush Sets — for every media, technique, and project.

Available in a range of shapes, sizes, and hair types, these very affordable brush sets are great for students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. For good quality at a reasonable price, choose Blick Essentials Brown Nylon Value Brush Sets — for every media, technique, and project.

Blick Essentials Foam Value Brushes are an affordable choice for all types of artists — students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. They offer good quality at a reasonable price, for every type of media, painting technique, and project.

Available in a range of shapes, sizes, and hair types, these very affordable brush sets are great for students, beginners, and the price-conscious professional. For good quality at a reasonable price, choose Blick Essentials White Nylon Value Brush Sets — for every media, technique, and project.

These pure white, Chungking bristle brushes with naturally flagged ends provide a smooth continuous stroke for priming canvas, varnishing finished works, or employing glazing techniques. Bonded in nickel-plated brass ferrules, so bristles won't disturb.

Versatile 2" wide brush is for watercolors — large washes and for wetting paper. And with oils or acrylics for laying-in large areas of color. Also for priming or varnishing. Pure white hog bristle in nickel-plated steel ferrule.

These well-crafted, versatile multi-purpose brushes work wonders with oil, acrylic or tempera paints. Their hair is 100% black bristle - a good alternative to quality softer hair. The wooden handles have seamless, polished, nickel-plated brass ferrules.

These well-crafted, versatile multi-purpose brushes work wonders with oil, acrylic or tempera paints. Their hair is 100% black bristle - a good alternative to quality softer hair. The wooden handles have seamless, polished, nickel-plated brass ferrules.

Make short work of priming canvas with gesso, varnishing or working with large-scale paintings. Affordably priced for the classroom budget, these brushes feature short, natural gloss handles designed for comfort while working.

The Blick Covered Palette is the ideal accessory for any watercolor or acrylic painter. It's made of heavy-duty, white plastic, and has a large area in the center for mixing. Dimensions are 12" × 15" (25.5 cm × 38 cm).

Create your own color palette with Blick Empty Watercolor Half Pans. These white, plastic half pans are lightweight and portable — perfect for pouring or packing in paint for plein air painting and traveling.

Our economical folding palette is molded from lightweight plastic, so you can hold it steady for as long as you wish to paint. Both sizes have hinged thumb holes and are deep enough to hold short-handled brushes and small paint tubes.

Cleanup is quick and easy with Blick Studio Disposable Palette Pads — just tear off a sheet, use it for your painting session, then throw it away! Great for use with acrylics, casein, and oils, the palette paper pads are available in a variety of sizes, each containing 50 sheets.

Celebrate your favorite art supply store (and our associate artists) with this useful apron made from heavyweight cotton canvas. Generously cut to fit all artists, this basic black apron ties in back for a comfortable fit, and features the Blick Artists Serving Artists (ASA) logo on the front.

Help keep clothes clean with Blick Kids' Aprons. The colorful polyester cotton/twill aprons are screen printed with the "Kids Pick Blick" logo. Available in two sizes for kids of all ages.