Square Wash Brushes

Wash Brushes in Watercolor Washes: Many watercolor artists use a technique of applying a wash to their paintings. This is done by using wash brushes. The background color is provided by using this technique. Washes are made by diluting watercolor paint with water before using.

Square or Flat Wash Brushes		Student and Scholastic Grade Square Wash Brushes

This Week's Featured Products in Square Wash

	Robert Simmons White Sable Skyflow Flat Wash Robert Simmons pioneered a revolution in synthetic brushes, creating a unique blend of filaments that perform so remarkably like pure red sable that they earn the name "White Sable." Simmons's White Sable brushes offer superb point and spring at a fraction of the cost of red sable. The original synthetic artist's brushes for watercolor and acrylic are still guaranteed for life — just as they were when Robert Simmons introduced them in 1972.
	Da Vinci Cosmotop Spin Flat Wash These brushes are made of soft synthetic fibers that deliver an extra broad even stroke but leave no brushmarks. These brushes have polished red and black handles and rustproof steel ferrules.
	Blick Scholastic Wonder White Flat Foot Blick's White Taklon delivers the texture and responsiveness of Red Sable, yet holds up to caustic solvents and acrylic paints with greater durability. Ferrules are made of seamless, polished nickel-plated brass. The hande is acrylic plastic.

There are different types of washes that can be used. Some of these are listed below in brief detail:

• Pale wash is a simple tinting of the paper that is being transformed into artwork by using a scant amount of pigment.
• Solid wash is a pale wash. It is used when the entire paper is to be painted in one shade or color. The same shade is consistently used for the top, middle and bottom of the watercolor paper.
• Gradient wash is used as the background in many landscapes. Gradient washes go from dark to light starting at the top of the paper and going down with fading of color.
• Layered wash is an advanced wash which uses multiple pigments of paint color. It is completed by using hues of one color or using several different colors to make a glazing affect.
• Color mix wash is when two or more colors of pigment are used to create a wash. This technique creates a blending of color that cannot be matched by mixing on a palette.