Bright Brushes

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.

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.

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.

For students, amateurs, and professionals alike, Simply Simmons Brushes offer excellent performance, dependability, and value — all at one low price. They are handmade by skilled craftsmen to meet the same high standards that artists have come to expect from the Robert Simmons name.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Russian Black Sable, or Russian Fitch, is a perfect balance of the best qualities of bristle and sable. Black Sable is more stiff and substantial than Red Sable, with an exceptional smoothness that leaves little stroke impression in the paint surface.

Da Vinci Kolinsky Red Sable Oil Brushes combine great resilience and softness to create a brush that is perfect for spreading color thinly and evenly to achieve fine shades of color and structure. Each brush has a long, maroon, polished handle.

Da Vinci Maestro 2 Hog Bristle brushes are meticulously crafted, with extra strong, yet elastic double-boiled bristles to give more spring and longer life. The hand-shaped and interlocking bristles provide better color-carrying ability.

Da Vinci Pure Badger brushes contain the highest-quality silver-tipped pure badger hair, perfect for blending and softening oil paint on the canvas. They're excellent for glazing techniques, and popular with decorative and faux finish painters.

Da Vinci Russian Blue Squirrel Brushes are significantly longer and larger than other brands, and are ideal for mop and wash techniques, for priming, and for area work. The majority of the brush shapes in the line are made from pure Russian Blue Squirrel hair.

These brushes contain excellent Russian Red Sable hair from the Ussuri River region. They are excellent for precise, controlled brush strokes, detail work, and fine blending.

The Dynasty Urban FX brush series is ideal for artists who paint on buildings, sidewalks, and other surfaces in urban settings. Strong natural bristles work well on smooth and rough surfaces. Densely packed bristles in seamless black ferrules, with brightly colored, non-slip neon handles.

Escoda's Black Sable, also known as fitch hair or polecat hair, is less stiff than light ox hair at around the same price. An alternative to bristle and kolinsky, this handcrafted brush is often used when painting with thinned oil colors.

Escoda hand cures each Bravo brush, so that what results is a tool that offers remarkable spring and resilience. The long, lacquered red wood handle offers superb control. It's attached to the nickel-plated brass ferrule via a triple crimping process.

Escoda handcrafts premium-quality bristle to create a superior quality brush that stands up beautifully to heavy paint. The Clasico Chungking White Bristle retains its original shape and handles wonderfully.

the newest addition to the Escoda family is its Grafilo line of long handled brushes. All feature pure male Tajmyr Sable Kolinsky, the finest hair in the world of natural brushes. It is ideal for both oil and watercolor.

The fine haired Escoda Optimo Kolinsky sable forms a soft brush head, which is great for delicate, controlled work. Escoda cures the brush hair resulting in remarkable spring and resilience. The long, lacquered blue wood handle offers superb control.

Named after the exact location in Siberia where Escoda sources its Kolinsky-Tajmyr Sable, Reserva Series Brushes are crafted using only the tail hairs from the male Kolinsky — renowned for their springiness and capacity to retain liquids.

Grumbacher Black Diamond Brushes allow you to hold sharper edges and achieve more consistent color laydown thanks to unbleached, un-dyed Black Hog Bristle bristles with plenty of natural flags. The brushes feature soft, non-slip handles and nickel-plated brass ferrules with a sleek black finish.

Grumbacher's signature line of professional oil and acrylic brushes are made of Chungking hog bristle. Natural flags and interlocked construction preserve the natural curve of the bristle.

This high-quality bristle brush is an outstanding value. Stiff and coarse, it's designed to withstand the wear of oil and acrylic paints. The interlocking curved bristle maintains a tight and precise brush shape that resists splaying.

These are exquisite handmade pure Kolinsky sable brushes that exhibit an unparalleled combination of softness, spring, and snap. They're ideal for precision, detailed work. The brushes feature long lacquered handles with seamless nickel-plated ferrules.

Using a special blend of the finest quality Russian Kolinsky sable, the head (shape) of each brush is handcrafted by experienced, world-class brushmakers to the exact requirements of master artists. Each brush is put through extensive trials over months.

This is a professional range of supple 100% natural Chungking bristle brushes. Interlocked hairs with an abundance of flags hold lots of color and retain their shape well. They can be used with oil and acrylic paints.

Made from the finest natural Kolinsky Sable and hand-shaped by skilled German brush makers, the heads on these long-handled brushes are a must-have for oil painters. The hair in Princeton Siberian Kolinsky Sable Brushes is resilient and soft for spreading color thinly and evenly.

R&F Encaustic Brushes are specifically designed to meet the unique demands of encaustic painting. Most significant, the use of high-quality natural hair rather than synthetic fibers prevents the brush hair from melting and scorching on heated surfaces.

Superb spring, maximum brush stroke control, and a large color carrying capacity. Raphaël Extra White Bristle brushes are exceptionally strong and long-wearing. Crafted from interlocking, extra-white hog bristles carefully selected for superior quality.

Raphaël Fresco Red Sable Brushes are 100% Pure Red Sable for precision work and for making smooth brushstrokes in oil paintings. They share many of the same working properties of Kolinsky Sable — good spring, sharp points, and sharp edges — at a fraction of the cost.

This brush offers today's artist the same features that made it a favorite of the modern masters - superior, extra-white Hog bristles, and soft, thick tufts that splay uniformly for expressive and generous applications of color.

If you value the good pointing, color handling, spring, and smooth application of natural sable with the durability and value of synthetic brushes, the Sapphire line is for you. Appropriate for all media. Use the long handled brushes for easel work.

Robert Simmons Signet brushes are handmade using high-quality Chungking hog bristle, interlocked and deep-set in extra-long, seamless, nickel-plated ferrules. Long beech wood handles are treated with five coats of lacquer. Ideal for acrylics and oils.

Versatile and durable, these brushes duplicate the needle-sharp points and fine chisel edges of the best Red Sable. They contain a special blend of natural hair and Golden Taklon. Choose these brushes for exceptional color-holding and extra spring.

The Silver Brush Grand Prix Super Brush was made exclusively for Silver Brush by master brush makers. It contains 100% naturally curved white bristle with flagged and interlocked tips for maximum color carrying capability. For use with all techniques.

Renaissance Red Sable Brushes make no compromise, offering a natural spring and generous color-holding capacity. They are the professional's choice for projects in oils. They have long handles for easel style painting.

Ideal for working in oils or acrylics on large-scale canvases or murals, these premium long-handled brushes from Silver Brush are expertly manufactured by accomplished brushmakers. These brushes are available in a wide variety of sizes and shapes.

Utrecht Natural Chungking Pure Bristle Brushes are handmade using only the highest quality natural Chinese Chungking Hog Bristles. The Series 209 brushes are excellent for both oil and acrylic painting.

Utrecht Rhenish Pure Hog Bristle Brushes are made from hand-tied bundles of naturally curved, interlocked bristles with soft flagged tips. They offer great paint-holding capacity, especially with heavy-body paints. Nickel-plated, double-crimped, seamless ferrules; long hardwood handles.

This Winsor & Newton brush, features Chungking hog bristles and a naturally interlocked head. Contoured birch handles are sculpted to offer a comfortable grip at the tail as well as below the ferrule.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Each brush in the Bob Ross Synthetic Mongoose Brush line features a blend of high-quality, 100% synthetic mongoose filaments that have been specially developed for use with Bob Ross Soft Oil Colors. Soft and supple yet incredibly stable, these long-handled brushes are ideal for floral compositions. Use them to paint everything from the most delicate florets to large, voluminous petals. Each brush in the line has a lacquered wooden