Faux Finish Brushes and Tools

These cellulose sponges from 3M are 10 times more absorbent than polyurethane sponges. Stronger and less likely to fall apart, the sponges come in a convenient 6" x 4-1/4" x 1-1/2" size, ideal for cleanup in the studio, classroom, or home.

Perfect for big projects, the super-soft synthetic filaments in Blick Mega brushes have wonderful color-holding qualities for a smooth application of oils, acrylics, and fluid paints.

Apply oil or acrylic straight from tube with a Colour Shaper, then carve back into paint for unusual surface effects. Also for calligraphy. Use the rubber tip shapes to lift or blend paint, draw line, and draw contours.

Liquitex Freestyle is an innovative range of professional products designed to expand the opportunities of traditional and non-traditional artistic expression. These brushes offer the ideal tools for acrylic artists working in both large and small scales.

Ergonomically designed to fit in the palm of your hand, Catalyst Wedges and Contours are exciting new tools for creative expression. They're at home with all heavy body paints, as well as plaster, clay, and even food crafts. Because they're heat-resistant, they excel with encaustics.

These sets are filled with an assortment of Royal's most popular Golden Taklon classroom brushes, contained in a versatile storage tray that doubles as a drying rack.

Similar in softness to Russian Blue Squirrel but at a fraction of the cost, Black Goat hair holds a large volume of water, making it excellent for mop and wash techniques. The unique Quill Mop shape makes it ideal for oil gilding and metal leaf work.

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.

Blending, creating details, and erasing pastel colors is easy to accomplish using the DuoPastello. One end has a round, flattened 5/8" diameter pure pony hair brush. On the other end is a 3/8" wide, flat, tapered synthetic brush for details.

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.

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.

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.

Fine, high-quality Falbex synthetic filaments adjust smoothly to any surface, for full, even paint application with no brush marks. Choose from three shapes. Suitable for finishing, varnishing, chalky paints, glazing, and murals. Stainless steel ferrules; beechwood handles.

The Bob Ross 2" Synthetic Soft Blender Brush features soft, high-quality 100% synthetic goat hair bristles shaped to Ross’ precise specifications. Developed to enable painters to achieve a range of effects using the wet-on-wet oil painting technique, this versatile short handle brush is ideal for creating the soft, subtle effects often found in landscapes and seascapes.

Da Vinci's Series 5040 Mottler is great for washes in watercolor and fluid acrylic, and for gessoing and varnishing. If you prefer a synthetic for these applications, this is as good as it gets.

Escoda's Series 2336 is a flat, straight edged brush for painting broad passages, washes, and for varnishing. Barroco Toray Gold is the finest quality synthetic fiber available. Slightly stiffer than the Toray white, it keeps an excellent point and edge.

The Gamblin Gamvar Synthetic Varnish Brush was developed by Gamblin to work perfectly with Gamblin Gamvar varnishes. This synthetic bristle brush is soft enough to contour to textures, yet stiff enough to evenly and thinly varnish a painting. Available in two sizes, both with short handles.

Ideal for priming canvas, large mural projects or laying in background colors. Wooden handles and high quality Polyester hairs make these brushes a joy to use, and appropriate for all paints and varnishes. The set includes three brushes: 1-1/2", 2", and 3".

Liquitex Freestyle is an innovative range of professional products designed to expand the opportunities of traditional and non-traditional artistic expression. These brushes offer the ideal tools for acrylic artists working in both large and small scales.

Princeton Catalyst Polytip Bristle Brushes are another Princeton breakthrough that advances the science of synthetic hair. By giving each individual hair two to three distinct tips, Polytip bristles are able to hold a higher volume of paint while providing smoother application.

Princeton Redline Brushes are perfect for big tasks. Multiple synthetic filaments and hair lengths hold more paint and provide control and consistency on large surfaces. European lacquer-coated beechwood handles. Four shapes.

The Raphaël Kaërell is the closest thing to a natural hair brush we've found at an economical price. Supremely soft with a fine tip, it is excellent for watercolor, acrylic, and oil painting. It is a long wearing brush with surprising strength.

Raphaël Sepia Flat Brushes are made from stiff, synthetic interlocking fibers that are elastic and precise. They are perfect for use with acrylic paints and also a good choice for applying gesso.

The very soft, flexible synthetic fibers in Raphaël Softacryl Flat Brushes are very responsive when used for laying down smooth, flat color. They can be used with fluid acrylics, gouache, and varnishes.

Developed for artists who employ impasto techniques and create relief effects with thick acrylics and structure gels, the Textura Flat Brush offers springiness and strength. They're made from short, strong, rigid synthetic fibers that respond well to thick paints and mediums.

Utrecht Series 755 Nylon Gesso Brushes are excellent for priming canvas, glue sizing, and painting large areas. The long-lasting nylon bristles have soft, flagged tips for smooth application, firmly set into metal ferrules and securely fastened to house painter-style handles.

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.

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.

Bob Ross Synthetic and Bristle Blend Brushes feature a durable blend of high-quality synthetic and natural hog hair bristles shaped according to Bob Ross’ precise specifications. Specially developed to enable painters to achieve a wide range of effects using the wet-on-wet oil painting technique, each of these versatile brushes has a short, triple-lacquered, white wooden handle crafted from smooth, sustainably sourced FSC certified birch wood.

Da Vinci Black Goat Hair Wash Mottler brushes are similar in softness to squirrel hair but at a fraction of the cost. They will hold lots of water and can be used for washing, varnishing, imitating, and priming.

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.

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.

The Escoda Aquario 2032 is a flat, straight edged brush for painting broad passages, washes, and for varnishing. The short, tightly crimped squirrel hair offers terrific control, and a soft, fluid stroke. Escoda specially cures each handcrafted brush.

The Escoda Clasico Chunking is a long-lasting, high quality, economical handcrafted brush. The long white hog-bristle is great for varnish and gesso. It keeps an excellent edge for a controlled application. Escoda cures each brush.

This expertly crafted brush is perfect for covering large areas. If it's natural bristle you want, it's the finest available for varnishing, gessoing, glazing, and similar applications. Each brush is loaded with natural Shanghai Chungking hog bristle.

Linzer's Gesso Brushes feature a combination of bristles that are formulated for gesso application but are also suitable for all-purpose painting. The brushes feature varnished wood handles with steel ferrules.

Princeton's gesso brush is hand crafted in the USA, and features natural flagged end bristle hair. It is economically priced, but is high quality with minimum hair loss.

Mixacryl brushes combine the strength and retention of a natural bristle with the spring and vigor of synthetic fibers. The interlocked assembly is perfect for heavy body acrylics and oils and gives an excellent response on the canvas.

Raphaël Oleo Flat Brushes are a high-quality brush made with durable natural bristle to ensure elasticity and longevity. Ideal for acrylics, oil paints, and gesso, they are capable of holding a heavy paint load.

Silver Brush Atelier Badger Blend Mottler Brushes feature a blend of badger and synthetic bristles that is perfect for blending or softening edges in oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings. Extra-long handles extend the artist's reach on large canvases. Rustproof copper ferrules.

Silver Brush Atelier Hog Bristle Mottler Brushes feature high-quality Hog Bristle for precision and control. These large brushes are Ideal for varnishing, graining, transparent painting, priming, controlled strokes, and textures. Extra-long handles and rustproof copper ferrules.

A good-quality brush with black bristles and a wood handle, the Varnish and Chip Brush is great for applying oil-based paints, stains, and enamels.

Perfect for big projects, the super-soft synthetic filaments in Blick Mega brushes have wonderful color-holding qualities for a smooth application of oils, acrylics, and fluid paints.

Blick Mega Brushes are perfect for big projects! Designed for use with all viscosities of acrylics, oils, and waterbased colors, the medium-soft synthetic filaments offer superior control and are great for holding edges.

Liquitex Freestyle is an innovative range of professional products designed to expand the opportunities of traditional and non-traditional artistic expression. These brushes offer the ideal tools for acrylic artists working in both large and small scales.

Handmade by skilled craftsmen, these popular brushes are now available in a variety of extra-large (or XL) sizes. The soft, gold, synthetic fibers in these brushes are great for fluid colors, waterbased paints, large-area washes, and smooth surfaces.

Handmade by skilled craftsmen, these popular brushes are now available in a variety of extra-large (or XL) sizes. The stiff synthetic fibers in this line of Simply Simmons XL brushes are ideal for heavy body color, impasto, and rough surfaces.

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.

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.

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.