SIGNATURE BRUSHES

Thierry Duval

“Since when I started practicing watercolour, more than 40 years ago, I’ve been able to test and work with many brushes, of all shapes and fibres. However, it’s been some years, with my daily practice of this technique, that I started dreaming of having the perfect tools ideal for my realist and precise style. Tintoretto has offered me this opportunity. After many tests and prototypes, we succeeded in developing these 4 great watercolour brushes.
The handles’ weight is increased respecting to the usual brushes on the market, this is done so that the hand can hold a firmer grip in order to facilitate and enable a better flow. The colour, ultramarine Blue, is always present in my watercolours and, together with matt golden ferrules, make these brushes objects of excellent quality and elegance.”

TD01

Cambered round brush, Extra bristle. Brass ferrule laquered in matt golden colour. Short wooden handle, blue varnished.

ELASTICITY
COLOR RETENTION
SOFTNESS
WEAR RESISTANCE
TIP THINNESS
“This kind of brush, which I call the “retreats brush”, is made with Extra bristles’ extremely hard fibres which allow to make, through light frictions on the paper, colour retreats either in dry or wet on wet techniques. This brush is perfect to recover paper’s whites and to create, for instance, halos, soft shades and light spots. “

Technical sheet

# 4
↥ 11.0
Ø 7.0

# Size ↥ Hair length (in mm) ↔ Ferrule length (in mm) Ø Ferrule diameter (in mm)

TD02

Round brush, Emerald synthetic. Brass ferrule laquered in matt golden colour. Short wooden handle, blue varnished.

ELASTICITY
COLOR RETENTION
SOFTNESS
WEAR RESISTANCE
TIP THINNESS
“The head’s shape and its tip are expressively conceived to obtain an extremely thin trait joined with a good colour retention capacity; the colour is released regularly and uniformly, even when painting on a big surface, without constantly returning to the palette. The Emerald fibre is great for its qualities like high elasticity for the tip return united with a discrete softness.”

Technical sheet

# 14
↥ 25.0
Ø 7.0

# Size ↥ Hair length (in mm) ↔ Ferrule width (in mm) Ø Ferrule diameter (in mm)

TD03

Round brush, Emerald synthetic. Brass ferrule laquered in matt golden colour. Short wooden handle, blue varnished.

ELASTICITY
COLOR RETENTION
SOFTNESS
WEAR RESISTANCE
TIP THINNESS
“The head’s shape and its tip are expressively conceived to obtain an extremely thin trait joined with a good colour retention capacity; the colour is released regularly and uniformly, even when painting on a big surface, without constantly returning to the palette. The Emerald fibre is great for its qualities like high elasticity for the tip return united with a discrete softness.”

Technical sheet

# 18
↥ 36.0
Ø 11.0

# Size ↥ Hair length (in mm) ↔ Ferrule width (in mm) Ø Ferrule diameter (in mm)

TD04

Filbert brush, Thin synthetic. Brass ferrule laquered matt golden colour. Short wooden handle, blue varnished.

ELASTICITY
COLOR RETENTION
SOFTNESS
WEAR RESISTANCE
TIP THINNESS

“This brush is perfect for the “wash” technique. Its shape with slightly rounded borders has been created specifically in collaboration with Tintoretto using Thin synthetic fibre. This tool is ideal for washes made with wet on wet technique. The shape, having a rounded section, softens the brush strokes when laying colours down, this is extremely useful in order to obtain great nuanced backgrounds. This mottler is also perfect to handle colour retreats, for example uncovering the paper’s whites in the sky and therefore creating clouds.”

Technical sheet

# 28
↥ 25.0
↔ 26.0

# Size ↥ Hair length (in mm) ↔ Ferrule width (in mm) Ø Ferrule diameter (in mm)