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 [...]

July 2018 Featured Artist of the Month

Ana Sofía Castañón is a multi-talented artist hailing from Cancun, Mexico. Her Instagram is filled with brilliantly colored paintings of dreamy looking turtle grass with manta rays gliding along the ocean floor. It had us mesmerized and we just had to share her artwork. After connecting with her, we learned that Ana Sofía is so much more than just [...]

May 2018 Featured Artist of the Month

James Tennison, Whidbey Island, WA. While scrolling through Instagram    one day, we stumbled upon James Tennison’s oil and watercolor artwork. His account is filled with breathtakingly beautiful landscapes, still-lifes and portraits, each of which evoke a sense of awe. James’ eye for the way light and shadow interact and the colors they create is [...]

April 2018 Featured Artist of the Month

Lea Colie Wight is an award-winning oil painter and teacher with a unique perspective. As a former student of the prestigious atelier, Studio Incamminati. Lea now teaches about 20 students each year at the very same school. While she was a student, Lea studied under and alongside some of the founding members of the atelier [...]

Featured Video of the Month

Saturday March 24th, 2018 Studio Incamminati School for Contemporary Realist Art hosted a live demonstration on Facebook. The title of which was Three Artists, Three Perspectives:A Painting Demo Embracing Technology and Tradition.  Artists Kerry Dunn, JaFang Lu and Nell O'Leary performed a live model painting demonstration. Silver Brush Limited had the honor of being the [...]

February 2018 Featured Artist of the Month

Paolo Rivera is not your average watercolor artist. Before he even graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design, he was already working as an artist for Marvel Comics®. When he started his career with them in 2002, he was just doing comic book covers and sometimes illustrating entire issues. Now, he says he tends [...]

January 2018 Featured Artist of the Month

  Mark Kohler is a talented watercolor artist from Texas whose work is inspired by the nomadic animal handlers of Gaucho culture in South America, cowboys of the American Southwest and rodeos in Mexico known as the “Charreada.” Many of Mark’s best friends are cowboys and he “had a natural subject available” whose stories he [...]

November 2017 Artist of the Month

Michael Shane Neal is one of the most highly sought after (and best dressed) portrait artists in North America. Among the many modern luminaries who have sat for him are Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, actor Morgan Freeman, and world-renowned portraitist Everett Raymond Kinstler. For over 10 years, Shane has been using Silver Brush® [...]

October 2017 International Featured Artist of the Month

Bobbi Dunlop is a Canadian oil painter from Calgary who is inspired by the old masters and uses Silver Brushes® almost exclusively. “My favorite series is the Grand Prix®,” she says, “…they stand up to everyday use and with the care I give them, they last endlessly. I never throw them away!” The idea of [...]