Jackson’s Speciality Watercolour Brushes
If you are a watercolourist that is fascinated by the high drama and wonder of the natural world, Jackson’s range of Speciality brushes are well worth investing in. Made from badger hair, the brushes have excellent liquid holding capacity yet at the same time are able to create texture and streaks caused by the character of the hair – something you will not find with sable hair brushes. The result is that the Speciality range will present to you a wide variety of means of creating textures and marks that can best describe the poetry and intrigue of rural landscape. Our video demonstration shows what each shape can do.
The brushes available in the Jackson’s Speciality Brush range:
Sky Stippler – available in 1” wide flat only, this brush has densely packed hairs that will carry lots of liquid for dramatic looking washes. The hair offers a slight streaky quality to the brushmarks. When used with dry paint one can create a more powdery effect in the sky, or why not layer dry brush techniques over washes to see what happens?
Stippler Fan – is available in small and medium sizes. The stippler fan is well suited to blending, and good for describing textures in ploughed fields, as well as for blending with more dilute paint.
Deerfoot Stippler – is available in a size 12 only. The hairs are clipped at an angle to make a shape like a deer’s foot. Used with dry paint this brush is effective in describing clusters of small flowers in the distance.
Comb Foliage – is available in a ½” wide size. The different length hairs make streakier brush marks. This texture can effectively describe many natural phenomena such as waves of the seas and rivers, or strata on a cliff-face.
Jackson’s Foliage – The foliage brush is available as a half inch wide brush that is great for building up texture in foliage subject matter, as well as describing lush meadows.
Dagger –available as a 3/2” wide brush. For very fine lines, that can become broader when more pressure is applied. Good for leaf veins and other delicate lines in nature.
Soft Hair Stippler – is available in 4 sizes – extra small, small, medium and large. The brush creates very powdery looking stippled effects that could be useful when depicting a hazy or misty landscape.
To view and order Jackson’s Speciality brushes, please visit the Specialty Watercolour Brushes page on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
As always- standard UK shipping is free with orders of £39 or more and just £3.95 for orders under £39.
