Greg Howard Sword Liner Watercolour Brush

This 1/2 inch watercolour swordliner brush is from the Rosemary brush companies brand new Red Dot range and is made with a brand new synthetic fibre designed to replicate the feel of sable and you know what - It does!

The beauty of this brush shape is that it allows you to taper your brush stroke from a thick line right down to a very fine line (without the tremble sometimes associated with a rigger) and you can get some fantastic loose effects when you twist the brush from side to side.

One of the other advantages that watercolour sword-liner brushes have over the traditional rigger brush for fine line work is that because the brush has a nice belly to it, it doesn't run out of paint half way through a stroke like a rigger would.

Amongst other things I use these brushes for branch work and foliage on trees plus they are fantastic for rigging, telephone cables etc.

A versatile brush that every watercolour painter should have in their box!