Encaustic Brushes

Choose from a selection of bristle brushes designed especially for encaustic painters. These brushes allow for a variety of techniques and applications. Use them with encaustic paints or for faux finishing techniques.

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.

R & F Encaustic Hake Brushes were developed for the rigors of encaustic painting. Ideal for creating smooth, even washes of color, every brush is made of soft, natural goat hair that won't scorch or melt when exposed to heat. A split shank with sewn-in bristles makes them very durable.

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.

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 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.

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.

Create wildlife animals more accurately. Seven new brushes, developed to precise specifications, help create more authentic fur, eyes, whiskers, and tails. Made from golden taklon, white taklon, or white bristle.

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.

A bristle brush designed for travel! The handles on these high quality studio brushes have been scaled down to easily fit into pochade boxes or painting sets. Each Plein Air Bristle Brush is crafted with premium artist Chungking bristle from China.

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 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.

Escoda Natural Bristle Brushes offer oil and acrylic painters a premium range of large, handmade bristle brushes at an economical price. Each brush features Chungking bristle, a stainless steel ferrule, and an ergonomic natural wood handle.

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.

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.

The Princeton Select line of brushes goes beyond the basic brush shapes and sizes that make up the artist's arsenal. Joining a range of high-quality Rounds, Filberts, Flats, Chisel Blenders, Liners, and more are additional exciting technique brushes.

The Princeton Select line of brushes goes beyond the basic brush shapes and sizes that make up the artist's arsenal. Joining a range of high-quality Rounds, Filberts, Flats, Chisel Blenders, Liners, and more are additional exciting technique brushes.

The Princeton Select line of brushes goes beyond the basic brush shapes and sizes that make up the artist's arsenal. Joining a range of high-quality Rounds, Filberts, Flats, Chisel Blenders, Liners, and more are additional exciting technique brushes.

The Princeton Select line of brushes goes beyond the basic brush shapes and sizes that make up the artist's arsenal. Joining a range of high-quality Rounds, Filberts, Flats, Chisel Blenders, Liners, and more are additional exciting technique brushes.

Princeton Select Series 3750 Brushes are handcrafted to ensure beautifully consistent performance. The Fluffy Mop is a soft, absorbent, natural hair brush used for blending and softening layers of paint.

Princeton Select Series 3750 Brushes are handcrafted to ensure beautifully consistent performance. The Scumbler is a natural hair brush with good snap and spring that is used for drybrushing, allowing artists to apply shading and highlights by applying light pressure.

True to the Princeton tradition, every Princeton Select brush is handcrafted and tested to ensure beautifully consistent performance. Princeton Select brushes are short-handled.

Fun, but not frivolous, Snap! brushes from Princeton Artist Brush Co. are high-quality artist tools. Designed from the neck down, their colorful handles feature unique, multi-colored designs that make these brushes true stand-outs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The newest brush introduction from Winsor & Newton, these hand-dressed brushes feature 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.

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.

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.

Isabey's "Cat's Tongue" brushes feature a unique triangular pointed tip that makes precise strokes but can also be used for edges or flat work. Because these handmade natural hair brushes hold a large paint load while retaining excellent control.