Da Vinci Colineo Brushes Reviewed After 6 Months of Painting

Last calendar year we printed a assessment of the new Da Vinci Colineo Watercolour Brushes and we had been asked to deliver a follow up evaluation, to give responses on their issue following a couple months use in the studio. Lisa Takahashi and Julie Caves tested the Da Vinci Colineo brushes for use with watercolour, oil and acrylic and listed here are their views now.

Left: Lisa Takahashi’s Da Vinci Colineo Brushes
Ideal: Julie Caves’ Da Vinci Colineo Brushes

Lisa Takahashi

I have owned a Da Vinci Colineo Spherical Dimension 8, Flat Size 12 and Flat Sizing 4 due to the fact previous August, and have employed them on a in close proximity to-weekly basis for watercolour painting. For considerably of this time I was managing a weekly watercolour course and accomplishing the occasional demo, and identified myself reaching for these brushes with expanding frequency, specifically the flats.

Top rated: Da Vinci Colineo Flat Size 12
Bottom: Da Vinci Colineo Spherical Sizing 8

I am inclined to operating with brushes extended just after they have misplaced their crisp form, so these brushes have held huge enchantment, due to the fact of their genuinely sharp edges which assist to make a painted floor complete of strength and dynamism. I really like layering square finished brush marks and viewing all the crisp styles conversing and intermingling with a single a different.

As with all my watercolour brushes, I are inclined to rinse them in a jar of h2o throughout a portray session (never ever leaving the brush in the jar), then at the stop of every week I’ll take them to a tap and give them a great wash with a brush soap. Looking at them a small nearer now I see some of the outer hairs are setting up to splay out a little bit on the larger flat, but I have used it greatly (not just for light-weight strokes but also for extra vigorous ‘scrubby’ marks across a sheet of rough watercolour paper) so I would have expected them to have looked more worn to be straightforward. The round is nonetheless in immaculate issue, with standard but not large use following 6 or so months.

The Flat Dimensions 4 is in the worst situation, and this is because I utilized it for an oil painting commission, and I required to finish the painting to meet a deadline but did not pretty have the suitable measurement oil portray brush! I was rinsing the brush in Gamsol in a metal brush washer, and the brush head may possibly have manufactured some call with the base of the metal pot when rinsing. For that reason the shape of the brush was misplaced in an hour or so of working with it with oils.

So I’ve learnt my lesson these brushes are finest kept for watercolour only and need to have to be addressed with mild treatment. I am a convert while and when I had the oil portray incident I did experience compelled to get yet another brush in particularly the similar make and measurement. I love them not only for the reason that of the crisp marks they are capable of but also for the reason that the cope with is incredibly cozy in the hand and appears to be attractive. It is certainly a high quality manufactured brush.

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Julie Caves

Very last calendar year I spent about 60 hrs painting a 120 x 150 cm acrylic portray on stretched canvas, in excess of a 3 week time period. I used a brush for the painting that I experienced never ever utilized in advance of.

If I’m painting in acrylics thickly like oil, I generally use oil brushes like Jackson’s Akoya. At times I use a brush for acrylic paint like Jackson’s Shinku, Jackson’s Onyx, or Professional Arte Acrylix. If I’m painting in a extra fluid way, working with drinking water and matt medium to make the paint fluid, so a bit additional like watercolour, then I normally use watercolour brushes. My two favourite brushes for this are Jackson’s Icon and Professional Arte Prolene As well as. For this big painting I tried using a new brush, the Da Vinci Colineo. I utilized a Spherical Measurement 8 and a Flat Dimensions 12.

Best: Da Vinci Colineo Flat Dimensions 12
Bottom: Da Vinci Colineo Round Size 8

All of the brushes I have talked about in this article are designed with all artificial bristles other than the Icon which is a mix of unique artificial fibres with sable. The Colineo brush is made as a artificial substitution for a sable brush. I imagine it’s a little bit far too springy to sense completely like a sable, but it is comfortable and an outstanding watercolour brush. A rapid notice about the measurement: the Flat Sizing 12 is 12 mm broad, which is a Dimensions 6 in some flat brushes and a ½ inch in some flat brushes. I imagine of a 12 as substantial and this isn’t, so be mindful.

The Colineo brushes have been a enjoyment to paint with, holding a lot of creamy, fluid acrylic paint, letting me to paint extensive lines. The flat held its form well and allowed me to paint together edges cleanly.

Soon after 60 hrs of painting on a good/medium textured, acrylic gesso primed canvas, currently being still left in drinking water throughout each and every portray session, and currently being comprehensively washed at the close of every session, the brushes seemed fluffy and considerably less shapely then they did when they have been new. But that was how they looked when they had been dry, I was happy to see that they reshaped very well when moist and I can however get a great crisp line and a clean end. They have held up properly and substantially improved than some other brushes have carried out in comparable conditions. The flat has not curled outward at the guidelines or splayed into a wider form. The varnish on the handles didn’t split soon after getting remaining in h2o.

Even though not intended exclusively for acrylic painting, the DaVinci Colineo brushes worked perfectly with fluid acrylic paint and have saved their shape and spring soon after several hours of portray and a lot of washings. They are very good excellent brushes.

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Further more Reading through

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How Da Vinci Watercolour Brushes Are Designed

Why is a Da Vinci Brush a Good Watercolour Travel Brush?

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