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Ginger Cook – April 2019 Featured Artist of the Month
Ginger Cook has been an artist since she was a small child. Originally working with crayons and watercolors, Ginger gravitated to acrylics in the 1960s when it was a new medium. During this time, oil paints were revered as the only paint for “real” artists and Ginger strived to be taken seriously as an artist. Determined […]
Comparing Silver’s Acrylic Artist Brushes
Silver Brush Limited® manufactures a wide range of artists’ brushes for acrylic painting. In honor of Acrylic April, we are comparing three of our most popular series for this medium and how they stand out from a crowd! Ruby Satin® Ruby Satin® is a synthetic filament that imitates mongoose. These beauties come in both short […]
Acrylic April with The Art Sherpa
Grab your paint, gather your acrylic Silver Brushes, and head to the easel with Cinnamon Cooney, a.k.a. The Art Sherpa, for her 1st Annual Acrylic April Painting Challenge! From April 1st through April 30th, paint along LIVE with Cinnamon on her YouTube channel as she guides you through 30 different acrylic painting tutorials based on 30 different […]
March 2019 Artist of the Month
You’ve heard the adage, “It’s never too late to follow your dream.” Melanie Morris, an accomplished acrylic artist from Alabama, is living proof of that statement. Melanie graduated from college with a Master’s Degree in Communications and spent years working in the pharmaceutical advertising industry. After encouragement from her husband, Melanie decided to take an […]
Brush Shapes: Flat VS Bright
Every artist has a preference when it comes to the shape of the brush they reach for the most. For example, portrait artists lean towards filberts while watercolorists enjoy the versatility of a nice pointed round. When it comes to brights and flats, however, some artists wonder, “What’s the difference?” Let us break it down […]
5 Reasons Golden Natural® Should be the Brush in Your Hand!
Golden Natural® has been a member of the Silver Brush Limited product line for over 20 years. This versatile series has innumerable positive qualities, but we chose the Top 5 Reasons you should have Golden Natural® in your hand: It’s An “All Media” Brush Yup, you read that right! Golden Natural® can be used in […]
February 2019 Artist of the Month
Jeannie Dickson has only been using watercolors for about 3 years and already she has established a large following on social media, created lettering practice worksheets that she sells through her Etsy store, and has workshops planned for 2019 in her home state of Texas. This is going to be a busy year for the […]
Adirondack Adventures
Whenever a company produces a new product, the months, weeks and days leading up to its release are a labor of love (and sometimes blood, sweat and tears). Silver Brush Ltd is no stranger to this. The very first fine artist brush series we manufactured was Grand Prix® over 28 years ago. To this day, […]
December 2018 Artist of the Month
Dan Thompson is quite accomplished when it comes to his accolades. Not only is he a co-founder of the Grand Central Academy of Art and the Janus Collaborative School of Art in New York, he was also appointed Dean at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia this summer, which according to Dan, is an “extraordinary honor.” “A school of this […]
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