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Brushes

A good brush is expensive, but it can last years. watercolour painting doesn't damaged brushes. Choose  it preferably "petit-gris" or marder.
Personnaly, I use this brushes assortment :  
1-"pur petit gris" Isabey N°0 for current painting. 2- "pur petit gris"Isabey N°5 for backgrounds, shadings of, and wide areas. 3- marder N°4 for small areas. 4- marder Kolinsky "very short" N° 2/0 for very small and precise details. 5- A synthetic brush to quickly wet a large area of the paper. 6- At last, a spread out brush, for specifics effects.

Never leave your brushes liying into the water. Well clean them with only water after using, then, dry them with absorbent paper, well re-shape them before lying them in a special box. Above all, use them only for watercolour painting. Never use them for drawing gum, or another type of paint.

More articles about brushes

A new brush:

That small brush is very useful. it is synthetic, and don't keep a lot of water. I use it on wet paper to do special effects.

Here, you can see an example of use. When I need to realize some twigs in the background, for example. Or sometime I can use it for special effects of grass...