KUM watercolor brushes

What color is a watercolor brush suitable for?

In painting, a basic distinction is made between watery paints, such as watercolors, and pasty paints, such as oil paints.

To find out which brushes are suitable for which type of paints, we differentiate and label our brushes with a degree of hardness.
This describes the elasticity or resilience of the brush fibres.

Our watercolor brushes range in their hardness between soft and medium.
They have particularly soft brush hairs and are therefore ideally suited for watery paints.
Brushes with a soft degree of hardness, such as the KUM French Aqua, are intended exclusively for watercolours.
The KUM Memory Point, marked with the hardness level medium, has a little more elasticity and is therefore wonderfully suitable for gouache in addition to watercolours.

For thicker paints, on the other hand, harder brushes are used, such as the KUM Black Line brushes, with which the paint can be spread well.

Which is better?
Synthetic hair or human hair?

Human hair brushes have proven themselves for centuries and have a good reputation.
However, these are also very expensive and especially at a time when animal welfare is becoming more and more important, the question of alternative watercolor brushes arises.
In recent years, synthetic fibers have been developed further and further and are now hardly distinguishable from human hair brushes.

Watercolor brushes with synthetic hairs are not only an inexpensive, but also a good and vegan alternative.
In some cases, however, the synthetic fibers can also surpass real hair, as they are easier to clean, for example.