I know what you mean. Regardless of cost and reputation, some tools just feel right. The results just feel right.
In the world of painting I rarely choose a Kolinski sable brush. They are usually too floppy for my style of painting. I prefer the much cheaper DaVinci Cosmotop Spin brushes with a mix of natural and synthetic hair. I like a brush with snap.
Back to your photo. It is so atmospheric. I agree it just feels right.
I have one Kolinsky sable I do use; many of them as you say are too soft to work with for some of us. But that one brush has such an incredibly perfect point (this is Cindy's #14) that I have had to learn to cope with it. I have to move to its universe to use it, and I do, because it is has magic that is worth it. :) It's huge--mostly I like small brushes, not so much to make small marks as to make complicated marks: a little of this here, a little of that there. I rarely do watercolor these days, but I have to have that one out if I do.
I know what you mean. Regardless of cost and reputation, some tools just feel right. The results just feel right.
In the world of painting I rarely choose a Kolinski sable brush. They are usually too floppy for my style of painting. I prefer the much cheaper DaVinci Cosmotop Spin brushes with a mix of natural and synthetic hair. I like a brush with snap.
Back to your photo. It is so atmospheric. I agree it just feels right.
I have one Kolinsky sable I do use; many of them as you say are too soft to work with for some of us. But that one brush has such an incredibly perfect point (this is Cindy's #14) that I have had to learn to cope with it. I have to move to its universe to use it, and I do, because it is has magic that is worth it. :) It's huge--mostly I like small brushes, not so much to make small marks as to make complicated marks: a little of this here, a little of that there. I rarely do watercolor these days, but I have to have that one out if I do.