Escoda Versatil 1540 Series Artist Watercolor and Acrylic Paint Brush, Short Handle, Pointed Round, Size 2/0

The case is sturdy and protects the brush well, the brush maintains its point and holds a lot of water. It’s a very good watercolor brush.

I use synthetic brushes from several different brush manufacturers in my work. I'm am an artist and illustrator who frequently works with ink, watercolor and goauche. Recently, the Escoda Versatil has my favorite overall brush for watercolor and ink, as it just has this perfect balance between springiness and color carrying capacity. The performance is very close to that of a sable brush, but without the unnecessary animal cruelty and at a much more affordable price for the quality it provides. It's everything I want in a watercolor brush and nothing that I don't. Perfect!I use the rigger size 0 round I recently purchased on Amazon to paint long thin lines in some of my illustrations. It holds more paint than a short-tipped round of the same size, so I can make longer strokes before running out of paint. I tend to opt for shorter tipped rounds when working on fine details, but when I need longer strokes than they can provide, the rigger is my go-to. This is also an excellent brush choice when doing hand-lettering. That is a skill I am always working to develop and I think this brush makes that job easier for me. That's exactly what a good tool should do, right?I highly recommend the Escoda Versatil line for watercolor and ink painting (just ask me what I think of the travel brushes *drool*) and the size 0 rigger for painting long, fine strokes.As a side note, the Escoda Prado line is also excellent. It holds an excellent point (slightly better than the Versatil), at a trade-off of carrying a bit less paint. So, the Versatil brushes are usually my primary brushes, but I often mix in Prados when I'm painting fine details - something I do quite often.If you have any questions I can help answer, feel free to leave a comment below. :)

I was worried when I ordered such a fragile brush, a #2 rigger, for a couple reasons. I worried that it might get damaged in transit (as has happened to me before with other brushes), or that this rigger wouldn't be what I was looking for, but oh boy... it is better than I expected. The brush came with no issues, the point is excellent, great snap and it is quite thirsty, while keeping its point. This brush also releases the water and paint at a good pace so I could paint easily with the detailed thin lines I needed. Good grip on the brush and steady lines. Truly a joy to paint with.When testing using only one load of paint on the brush, it was enough for me to work on MANY tree branches and it just kept going and going, giving me thin lines and a bit thicker too, whichever I needed using only one brush. I was loving it!I have a few riggers of other sizes from other brands, but they didn't give me the thin brush strokes I needed and weren't the quality I was looking for. I recently got the Escoda versatil red travel kit and it quickly became my favorite go to "synthetic" brushes (and I have many different good brands of brushes). So after seeing that they also had a rigger I wanted to see if it would work for me. After testing this rigger, I would say this is the best out of all the others I have. Escoda is setting the bar so high! I wish I had known about this brand of brushes sooner, bc now all the other brushes I have pale in comparison. I love my new brush and see myself using it often. Highly recommend it!

I own several Escoda Versatil and they are lovely brushes that have top of the line performance so I still gave a 5 star review since the issue is Amazon not Escoda.I realize this is a used-like new brush but to have it arrive in a bag that was too tight so the brush was quite bent to one side and the tip was a mess is not like new. I'm quite disappointed in Amazon on this one. Lucky for me that this brush is such high quality because a couple of dips in boiled water put it back to like new condition. I haven't used it yet so I don't know if the performance will be the same. I'll update in a couple of days. I wish Amazon hadn't removed the photo capabilities from the review section or I would include before and after pics.UPDATE: Even though this wonderful brush was damaged from how it was packaged by Amazon for shipping it bounced right back with a few swirls in boiled water. I've painted several things and the brush is simply wonderful to work with.

These may not be the cheapest brushes on the market, and I was a little hesitant about the quality vs price given that it's a synthetic brush but this thing impressed me right off the bat. Solid construction, a bit weighty but very nicely balanced, the brush tip itself is very nicely formed and holds its shape really well and comes to a beautiful fine point. Furthermore, for a synthetic, this actually holds a very respectable amount of water and lays it down on paper beautifully.I'm typically somewhat of a kolinsky sable snob but I would buy this brush again and again and again. An absolute essential for any traveling watercolor kit.

La casa Escoda, una empresa española que radica en Barcelona, ya tienen maestría en la realización de pinceles con cualidades increíbles. Yo lo utiliza para acuarelas pero este es muy versátil y puede usarse en acrílico o goache sin problemas. Un pincel de viaje sumamente necesario para el día a día o para una pintura rápida en una salida casual, de manera recreativa. Es la mejor opción del mercado, en especial la línea Versátil, para mi junto con Perla los mejores de la marca.

Expensive, slow to arrive, but worth it . Great line of brushes, made in Spain, wish I could afford to buy more.

Me han gustado mucho, la marca scoda es conocida por su calidad.lo primero a reseñar es que son 100% veganos ya que tanto el pelo como la piel del estuche, son sintéticos. Los pinceles son metálicos pero justo por donde lo vas a agarrar la mayor parte del tiempo son de madera, por lo que no se pierde la calidez de un pincel. Además los capuchones tienen ventilación para que se puedan secar una vez guardados después de su uso, aunque siempre conviene secarlos lo mejor posible antes de guardarlos. Son muy compactos y en definitiva muy útiles y atractivos, como regalo siempre serán un acierto, tanto para principiantes como para dibujantes más expertos. Se me olvidaba aclarar que estos son específicos para acuarela. Imprescindibles!

Ha llegado en perfectas condiciones.Una maravilla lo fácil que es hacer trazos mas pequeños y lo bonitos que quedan los detalles. Me ha llegado antes de tiempo y super bien embalado para evitar que se dañe.

Very nice set, very practical. I love it.