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Select Artiste Series 3750 Brushes

A vast line of 29 distinct shapes, 108 individual brushes created for oil, acrylic and watercolor artists.

• 108 individual brushes created for oil, acrylic and watercolor
• Satin-finish jewel-tone blue handles

Brushes and their suggested uses:

• Angular Brights/Shaders: Tight shading and curved strokes
• Bright/Chisel Blenders: Length and width of brush is generally squared. Similar to flats, but shorter hairs make a stiffer brush
• Dagger/Strippers: Long chisel edge for easy, fine lines, vary pressure for thick-to-thin ribbon effect
• Deerfoot Stipplers: Texturizing brush. Use a dry brush and light, pouncing technique for fur, shrubbery, and soft backgrounds
• Detailers/Spotters: Fine detailing
• Fans: Subtle blending and for textural effects
• Filberts: Softer edge than a flat or bright
• Flats: Longer hairs than a bright, this brush has more flex and a large color carrying capability
• Grainers: Create a repetitive pattern of thin lines, the head is curved
• Liners: Similar to rounds but, with alarge color carrying capacity and makes long, fluid strokes
• Oval Washes: A cross between a mop and a filbert, for laying in large amounts of color and blending
• Mops: A large rounded shape that lays in large areas of color with a soft edge
• Rounds: Smaller sizes are typically used for detail work and larger sizes tend to be used for washes and filling in color
• Scrubbers/Scumblers: To rub out unwanted color, also useful for drybrush techniques and scumbling
• Washes: A wide, flat brush used primarily to lay-in large amounts of color, to wet paper, or for blending