Your brushes are your tools. They will help you do your best work.

Silver Falcon Brushes

Brush Selection Advice:

Acrylics tend to wear our brushes faster than any other medium.
Using a cheap brush will probably hamper the new artist’s progress.
Poor quality, low priced brushes have no spring in them and more often than not, the bristles fall out.
When buying a watercolor brush, make sure it has a good point on it.
Brushes should be kept clean and stored either flat or upright on the handle.
If possible, do not load paint over the ferrule; this paint might go into it and start to ruin the brush shape.
Never allow any paint to dry on your brush, always rinse it with clean water, every time you stop painting.

Proper Cleaning requires the following steps:

If necessary, use proper solvent for the paint you are using to remove as much colour as possible.
Use a brush cleaner or mild soap for final cleaning.
- Wet the brush in lukewarm water and work up a lather by gently rubbing your brush on the soap container or on the palm of your hand.
- Rinse in clean water.
- Repeat until lather shows no trace of colour.
Make sure colour is out of your brush.
Rinse thoroughly, shape your brush and put away to dry.
These simple rules have to be followed with sable, bristle and synthetic brushes.

Clean brush as indicated but use hot water.
Allow lather to remain on bristles/filaments a few minutes.
If necessary, tap bristles on hard surface to work paint out.
To clean paint from ferrule, allow lather to remain on bristles/filaments for several hours and repeat cleaning process.
Leave lather on bristles/filaments, shape and allow to dry.