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Today I am trying the big brushes. I received the Rapha\u00ebl as a Christmas gift. The two brushes by Silver Brush Limited I got for my birthday after seeing a fellow artist using the 240 Quill on Instagram. I knew I just had to have one. While shopping for that brush I found the white Goat Hair Quill brush and had to get that one too. The largest size it came in was the 180 but they were out of stock so opted for the 160. The size 3 quill from Rosemary and Company brushes I had purchased a while back but hadn\u2019t used yet. Golden Taklon brushes are my favorite brushes for acrylic painting, however I tend to prefer synthetic squirrel brushes for watercolor. I will do some more testing of the Silver 260. I love how big petals I can create with these brushes. I also want to compare them to my Size 8 Quill brush by Princeton Neptune. It is also synthetic squirrel. It makes lovely flowers. What I have learned is that size is not universal in regards to brushes. For example as you can see in the picture the Size 3 Rosemary and Company Quill brush is just a bit larger than the size 4 Rapha\u00ebl Quill brush. I first realized this with my #2 round brushes. I have size 2 round brushes by 4 different manufacturers and they are all different in size. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20],"tags":[59,72,71,69,70],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Y6g5-64","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":345,"url":"https:\/\/sefosterauthor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/07\/pointed-oval-wash-watercolor-brushes\/supply-saturday\/sefoster\/","url_meta":{"origin":376,"position":0},"title":"Pointed Oval wash -watercolor brushes","author":"sefoster","date":"July 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I am sharing with you one of my favorite watercolor brushes. 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