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Nerys B

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Just seen on Jackson's a ' WhaleTail' brush? Mmmmmm interesting! I like using angle shader brushes but this brush has me fascinated as to what kind of mark it Would make and what I could achieve with it? Anyone tried this brush, and if so, how did you like it?

Thea Cable

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Nerys (5/9/2015)
Just seen on Jackson's a ' WhaleTail' brush? Mmmmmm interesting! I like using angle shader brushes but this brush has me fascinated as to what kind of mark it Would make and what I could achieve with it? Anyone tried this brush, and if so, how did you like it?
I must admit I am not a great fan of these weird shaped brushes. I remember Terry Harrison brought a range out a while back all with daft names like 'fantail dabber' or something like that. I think it is a ruse to sell brushes and when I was a beginner, I was seduced into buying them thinking they were a shortcut to success. I stick to a normal round brush and a rigger and that does me.
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Nerys B

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You know, you are all right! You have saved me from myself. I think i'll leave it alone and use my trusted brushes that I know make the kind of marks I want and like. Cheers everyone.

Henry Cole

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Solid advice. I've started painting watercolours again after a ten year hiatus. It's tempting to invest in the most expensive equipment, but it's good to be reminded that it's about technique rather than materials.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Every now and then, I see the sword, or dagger brushes - full belly, but long, tapering point. And - I admit it, I'm only human - I'm tempted. But I'm also mean, so haven't yet succumbed. Should I continue to resist? I can see absolutely no point at all - could have phrased that better - in the whale tail brush; my only remotely exotic brush, and I'd never use it for watercolour, is the fan - it has its uses when painting in oil and acrylic: its application in watercolour is intended to be to give you the shape of tree-tops without trouble, the snag with that being that they'll all then be the same size. Might work in stylized paintings, but I don't paint that way.

Doug Byfield

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If that's a Beluga Whale Tail brush, then you have no choice-ya gots to git it!!! ;-) Cheers

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