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What brushes do you have in your kit? (Patreon)

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2025-01-24 13:01:09
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2026-10

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Hi everyone, I’m doing a bit of research and am interested to know what brushes (apart from pointed rounds) you have in your kit that you love and find really important for your watercolour painting.

Comment below! Thanks

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Patricia Maraia

Hi Harriet, I purchased a set of brushes by Terry Harrison (who passed away a few years ago, but his products can still be purchased). I use them mainly for trees and bushes. Very helpful and thanks for asking! Pat

de Winton Paper co.

Thanks Pat. I’m interested to know what shape/ type brushes you use the most, ie mop, filbert etc

Kiran Zeeshan

Hi! I use sizes 2, 4, and 6 in the round, have a few brushes for miniatures and rigger size 3 (but would like to add a smaller size as well).

Laura Boxberg

Besides rounded points I have two flat brushes, I think 4 and 8, and those are enough for me. I also have a rigger brush, which I love and use a lot. I always go synthetic as it is an animal friendly option.

Yanina Razak

In addition to ol’ faithful round. I use a filbert grainer with fur and the eradicator (I don’t know how I lived without it) but a chisel blender could work in a pinch, and a liner.

Belinda Stringer

I do a lot of small hand painted cards so I use your brushes for those, also have a flat brush for backgrounds, and just ordered mop brushes, cheap ones to try!

Janet O'Connor

Hi Harriet, I have a variety of brushes in my holder from 0/3 to 16 mop. In addition I have a few wedge shaped and sword, and a couple of flat wash, dagger and filbert. I mostly use mop brushes. I find that I can’t control the wedge brushes very well. I’m left handed

Patricia Maraia

Princeton’s Filbert and Flat Shader - great for painting bricks and flowers

Teresa Collard

Besides my rounds, my other favorites are flat (1, 1/2, and 1/4 inch), quill (small to large), a small fan, filbert, and dagger. I only use the last three occasionally.

Patricia Maraia

These brushes aren’t round, - they’re called - Foliage PX, Golden Wizard, Golden Fan Gogh, and Deerfoot Stippler.

Ruth

I use the same set of pro art brushes as you do. I also have a set of larger squirel hair Fuumuui bushes for washes and landscapes. I really like my 5 brush set I purchased from petiteprocrastinator (on instagram). I would like a dagger brush but haven't found one yet.

Susan Ing

Besides my rounds from your collection, I use mop brushes, I have 3 rigger brushes but I've never been sure of their sizes so I often have to guess which one is best for the painting at the time, but I enjoy that challenge! I sometimes use my set of Daler-Rowney System3 filbert brushes but I struggle to control them more, I find the rounds and mop brushes easiest to paint with.

Cindy

2” flat, fan brushes, & miniature brushes I purchased on Amazon. I also have some inexpensive all purpose brush sets.

Ilse Koerts

Rosemary & Co eradicator I love this brush!!

Deborah Eichel

Great question! I have many brushes. Most of them I do not use. I have mop brushes, flat brushes, fan brushes, stipple brushes, cat eye brushes, detail brushes, quill brushes, and the regular round brushes. I use some of these every once in a while, but I use the round ones the most. Sadly, I do not have any of your brushes. I need to look into that. They’re very attractive first of all, and I know I would use them. I appreciate a great question!💕

Pamela Hall

I have all shapes and sizes but use primarily my round 8,6,4,3,2 and a rigger.

Jessica Schwarz

Since I mainly paint following your books/tutorials I have also been following your recommendations regarding brushes. I have both your sets and got two rigger brushes as presents (a 0 and an

Suzette Santori

aside from the pointed rounds :) I have to say my little 1/4" flats that I use for softening edges, for lifting, and for making any small straight marks such as bricks or fencing. Also a 1/8" flat for detail . I also use a dagger -- I use the floppy tip to make random natural marks such as open leaafy trees or pine trees . I do use a mop for early washes, but would not call it a favorite LOL

Jessica Schwarz

And a 5 rigger brush). What annoys me is that the bigger and handier brushes (like size 4 and up) for mixing and waking up the colours are really a bit too big for the half pans I'm still using. So I end up with the delicate small ones trying to get water in and colour out if that makes sense. I need a stockier dense brush dedicated to that I guess!

Leah

Flat wash brush (1") and super soft round brushes. I find that I like a stiffer brush for your more illustrative tutorials (proarte with the white handles) but prefer a softer synthetic squirrel for a more painterly style with less skipping over the paper. Edit: Suzette's comment reminded me that I also have some mini flat brushes that I call my "brick brushes" . Large flat wash 1", Round 4-6 soft brush (Princeton Neptune), Flat Shader size 0 or 2

Erin Watson

Besides a variety of rounds I have to keep the following on my desk. A 1” hake for washes, a very soft 1” cat’s tongue for washes with edges the hake can’t handle, and a very soft 1/4” bright for swatching small color squares and for making very small bricks easier. The bright is also helpful for sharp flat edges and for softening any hard edges I want to remove. Hope that helps ❤️

Marie

I have the Pro Arte brushes which I prefer now , I do have a set of Winsor & Newton Cotman brushes, whilst they are OK, I find Pro Arte easier to use. I also have a few larger sized brushes from SAA .

Heather Karstens

Besides my rounds in a range of sizes, my go-to is a liner brush (Princeton Aqua Elite). I need to replace it after much use and have been trying to determine whether a liner or a rigger would be better. I love the liner for delicate winter tree branches. I also sometimes use a wash brush (3/4” or 1”), but mostly for wetting the page for landscapes more than actually applying paint.

Angie Herrera

I have all the normal rounds (Princeton, etc) but I prefer my Escoda, I like the snappy brushes with good points. My other preferred brush is a small Tintoretto mop brush that came in an A.Gallo palette I absolutely adore and use for most of my plein air painting. I also like using my Tintoretto mop rigger brush for painting.

Roxanne

I use rounds most of the time. I have a cheap mop, 1” flat and your rigger. So far, they have served me well.

Toni South

I love the Princeton heritage line and have 12,6,0 and a 1/2 inch flat Princeton velvet touch. I have a variety of small detail brushes and a few liner/ rigger brushes. If I was going to pick out just a few to use I would think I could get by with a liner brush, a 00 detailed, a #4 round. Maybe 1 other depending on how large the project

Lynda Gill

I think I’ve become a serial brush purchaser… I have small rigger, flat, mop and filbert, but the round brush is the one most likely to be in my hand! I think I’d like a larger rigger to try.

Laura Rumble

In addition to the rounds I have a couple of flats, one filbert, a hake, two riggers, a couple of mops and an enormous 2" wide round with a beautiful copper ferrule that'll never use but couldn't resist when I saw it!

Donna Ulrich

Rounds, petal, filberts, flat, detail, dagger...

Pam

I would say besides my round brushes of various sizes and stiffness would me my 3/4 inch flat brush

Anne Ridley

In addition to many (too many) pointed rounds (largest Proarte 16, smallest 4/0 spotter) i have 2 rigger brushes (0 and 2), 5 flat (3/4" down) 1 W&N filbert (2). I've never used the filbert and prob use the riggers more (after the pointed round).

Sophie

I think I have most types you can think of but don't often use them by lack of practice and knowledge : rigger, cat tong, dagger, triangular, art sword, art scarabeux....the Schimoni collection which is fantastic

Alex

My number 1 that I can’t live without is a flat pointed oval. It’s like using 2 different sized pointed rounds at once, a big one on the flat side and a smaller one on the edge. You can get quite a lot of paint down but still use the point to do detail.

Cindy Lamb

My favorites are a large flat brush for washes, a filbert and round sized 4, and your 0.4, 0.2 and 0 small brushes. I depend on those tiny brushes! For some reason I just feel more comfortable painting with small brushes.

Stew Hall

I love using my Neef Script brushes for really fine feather detail. They’re essentially a rigger but they have a nice snap and I use the 10/0 and 20/0 ones

Ángela López

I love a long one that I bought in Madrid to paint leaves in just one long stroke.

Robyn Mills

My fav brushes are DaVinci Maestro series 35 very expensive but worth it they hold their shape and paint have fine points I also use your brushes from Masterstroke they are a lot firmer a few Neef brushes and my broad brush is a da Vinci 40 great For wetting larger work hold water easy flowing . A few other favs like a Mop brush and and riggers are different brands

Debbie V

My favorite go-to foliage, texture, fill-in brush is also the deer foot/foliater/foliage brush, I have 6 all different brands in varying sizes - LOVE them!

Shirley LeMay

Other than the round brushes I mainly use the rigger brush from your shop and a 1/2” filbert and a size 6 dagger. I find the dagger useful for roses and creating ombré petals (saturate the brush then dip the tip into a contrasting color for a cool two tone look)

Renee Scott

I love rounds, but I’ve recently become more attached to my angle shader.

Cindy Knudtson

Filbert,rigger, angled, cat tongue, flat brushes and detail brushes

Merja (Suski)

I love Escoda Chronos and Rosemary and Co Red sable blend brushes. These are synthetic and animal hair mixes. Because of the animal hair these hold water / color better than synthetics. I need to load the brush less often and lifting colour / water from the paper works better for my use. Using animal hair does bother me, but so does using plastic. Hopefully someday they can make brushes from earth, air, water or fire 😅 I have rounds (also detail), miniature, flats, oval, dagger, sword, rigger, comber, fan, mop and Rosemary and Co Eradicator (used for fixing mistakes and lifting) brushes. Mostly using a big flat brush for washes, rounds 00-16, rigger 00-0 and eradicator. I have so many brush shapes available, but it takes time to learn to use all of the shapes and therefore I end up using the shapes I’m familiar with. I feel that extra brush shapes like dagger are useful when you paint watercolor shapes with one to couple of strokes which I do less often.

Mariëtte

I bought some of Winsor&Newton to start with, and a floral set of Princeton brushes. Still use some of my time at highschool (long, long ago) from Da Vinci. Would like to have a rigger brush for the fine details.

Lilias

I have your Pro Arte round (set of 7) and the set of 4 mop; flat; rigger; round. I use the set of 7 so the time and this is my second set - size 0 seems to be my go to all the time!! 😊 I have a couple of filbert brushes and fan brushes - and a random assortment from when I did some acrylic painting years ago. What can I say - I’m obsessed with all things painting, stationery and crafts 🤣🤣

Kate

A set of three artway quill brushes. I have fallen in love with these and tend to only really use these, a pro-arte rigger and my set of pro-arte rounds. I find I prefer using the quill brushes for washes rather than the flat brush I previously used. They’re also really amazing for looser, abstract painting.

Anne Davey

I have some Windsor and Newton brushes - flat size 2 and 4. I am very new to watercolour so I haven’t got many brushes, so far. I have ordered a rigger.

Dee R

Other than your brushes, I use the Silver Black Velvet brushes and have the 3/4" oval, and rounds in size 8,6,4,2,1. They hold more water because they are squirrel (if I remember right) and for certain projects they are better due to the brush type. I also use a cat tongue shape brush from Kristy Rice.

Lisa Lessard

I just purchased the Pro Arte de Winton brushes on your Etsy website. I also have round brushes from Loew-Cornell. And 2 larger Silver Black Velvet round and oval brushes.

Heather Karstens

Just for the record, this discussion of brushes is dangerous for my budget. I almost came out of the art supply store with several more brushes than I went in for today after reading the comments on here. 😉

Deborah Shannon

I have your Pro Arte brushes, a lot of Princeton Velvet Touch, Heritage, Neptune, and Aqua Elite - round, filbert, flat, fan, dagger, and liner. Not really a fan of the Neptune as I find them too soft and more difficult to control. I don’t use the dagger - I purchased it after watching another artist when I thought maybe I could do more loose and expressive painting - which isn’t me. Also have a Rafael sable, Escoda round, and a Silver Brush round.

Robyn Mills

I have Rosemary and Co lifting brushes they are great

Robyn Mills

I have a Tintoretto as my travelling brush I love it

Alison Morris

I have too many brushes because when I first started painting I thought I needed to have every size. In fact, I use round brushes in 4, 2, 0, 2/10 and 4/10 most, along with a mop brush and a rigger and half rigger in size 0. Occasionally I'll use a size 6 or a size 12 round brush, or a 5/10 round brush if I'm really struggling with detail but that's all. I don't think I've ever used the flat brushes or filberts I have, and wouldn't know where to start

Donna Harris (YodaMama)

I have bought two sets of your brushes on Etsy. I also have Grabie mop brushes. Originally I bought Princeton but have not used them since I bought your. I much prefer yours! I have one set that I used regularly and the other I have in my travel kit.

Debra

Harriet, I want to thank you for all that you do for us. It means a lot ❤️ For brushes, I have all Princeston Velvet touch numbers 18/0, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 round and a Princeton Select filbert number 4 and 10. Would you recommend adding something?

Pauline Elson

I enjoy having a selection of brushes. Size 6, 3 and 0 are the most often used.

Katy Fleming

I use flats and filberts in addition to silver black velvet 2 and 4 (key brush)

Suzanne Johnson

Angled shader, 3/4-flat, a medium and large quill, and the rounds.

Monica

I love the Pro Arte de Winton from Etsy, they are my first choice i love the 0, 2 , 4 and the miniatures. I am trying to be better with them when the budget allows i treat myself to an extra set and put it away so i don’t have to go without . I like the rigger as well.

Barbara S.

Hello Harriet, I use your Pro Arte set and I love The Princeton Aqua Elite and Neptune brushes. Unfortunately, your brushes are quite expensive here in Germany as there are additional taxes and high shipping costs, one brush arrived crooked... I also use a rigger brush quite often. I have some special brushes (filbert, dagger) but I generally tend to use my round brushes.

Dian Gansen

I use ancient brushes of unknown origin.

Teresa Lavenue

Filberts of all sizes, and cats tongue in a few sizes, and dagger and angled shader and fan