Basic Chinese Painting Brushes for Beginners, Set of 3
1) A refined soft hair brush with 90% thinner sheep hair for loading capability and 10% thicker goat hair for pointed tip: bristle length 1-1/2" and 5/16" diameter, with bamboo handle total bruch length 10-1/2". Known as the "flow brush", this soft brush is a great wash brush. 2) A wolf hair stiff brush: bristle length 1-1/8", total length 9-1/2".It's usually called "Orchid and Bamboo" brush, and commonly used for calligraphic strokes such as bamboo and orchid.3) A small weasel hair stiff brush. Bristle length 3/4", 1/8" diameter, with 7" long natural colored bamboo handle. This brush serves as a basic liner. As its name "Ye Jing"("Leaf Vein") suggests, it is commonly used for defining veins on leaves and drawing of other details. It is also known as a "Happy Dot" brush. This set of three brushes are perfect for beginner. In painting a blue heron, for example, you would use the sheep brush to paint the body part with light blue gray and then use the wolf brush to draw the legs and dot the eye with the Happy Dot stiff brush.