Thank you for this great review! I have been wondering about the triangle brushes that I have been seeing artists using on KZread, and now I understand a lot more about the differences in them. It is wonderful to follow your brush strokes, being that I am left handed also. Thanks again.

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

Ah, a fellow leftie! You're very welcome, glad you found this helpful. I think it's a cute, quirky brush, just not the "miracle brush" the way a triangle brush has been promoted. :p

This is so interesting-thank you for the close looks and comparisons of various brushes!

@HajraMeeks

4 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome, Jill, glad you found this useful. I try. XD

I really learned a lot from this informative video - thanks so much! I had many questions about these brushes, and you answered them all.

@HajraMeeks

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, that's lovely to hear! Thanks so much.

I am getting a triangle in a couple weeks with my M Graham or Sennelier Pains...No can decide! I will know when I get there. I love the orange flower with crinkly looking edges at the end. I want to do floral composition, so these brushes can be useful to me. I reviewed 2 sets sent to me from Artify on Ama, and it was great to get some nice filberts and a effects set...rake, fan, and a round that goes flat at the end...dont know what it's called, but it's useful. Thanks Hajra!

A very helpful review thank you.😀

@HajraMeeks

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome 😊

I just found this older video I somehow missed before now. Great information, as usual.

@HajraMeeks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Sharon, glad you found this helpful. :)

Triangle are awesome for fur textures, they are a neat texture brush indeedy. Great video!

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I would assume they would be good for fur, similar to how a dagger or striper or angle also are good for those textures. Glad you liked my video, thanks a lot.

Super dam informative! Was looking for a dagger brush at Jerry’s and unsure of weather I wanted 1/4” or 1/2”, I landed here. Thank you for all this info packed into one quick vid! Super appreciative! 😊✌️🎨

@HajraMeeks

4 жыл бұрын

Yay! Awesome to hear, always makes my day when someone is a bit happier because of me. :D

Thanks for this timely info. I find it particularly daunting deciding on brushes because you don't get to trial a brush before purchase. I've been wondering which brush for hair effects. It looks like the striper would be great for waves in hair and on water! Love the flowers btw.

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Crystal, you're very kind. Yes daggers and stripers are great for long wavy lines, perfect for hair and water.

Bless you, you saved me money!😊

@HajraMeeks

7 ай бұрын

lol...oh, good!

Thank You, this was really helpful for me, I only have one daggerbrush and thinking of getting another! 🤗 And thanks for all your advises, your art is beautiful! Greetings from Finland! 💛

@HajraMeeks

5 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome and so glad I was helpful! I'm delighted you find my art beautiful and hello back to you in lovely Finland from California's Bay Area!

I've not ever thought of any of your work as realism.. you paint lovely illustrations 😊 Estha Peck can show you how to get the most out of a triangle brush 👍She has a KZread channel I believe 😊

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you think I do lovely illustrations, I think illustration is the loveliest art form. :D there is a spectrum between photo realism (which I find boring) and super, super loose, and i meant my style was more realistic than one stroke, calligraphic florals which is as simple as you can get with watercolors. It's funny, I also don't record and post more complex personal artwork online, I post what I think would make for a fun and manageable video, and so my botanical watercolor realism and figural watercolor realism pieces are usually not in videos. Thanks for the info, I also found that @jensweeney4 on instagram.com has nice pieces if loose one stroke is what someone wants to do with a triangle brush.

Very helpful demo. I'm interested in learning how to paint the calligraphic flowers. Do you have any videos on this, or can you recommend a book?

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you found it helpful. I usually try to have a good answer to most things, but sadly this time I don't. :p I learned calligraphy in a formal half year long class back when I was 12, which taught me italic font calligraphy. Then I learned old gothic and roundhand fonts on my own, as well as the calligraphic flowers. For the various fonts, I bought font books, but for the calligraphy flowers--i just sort of made flowers up based on various calligraphy brush strokes that looked like petals or leaves and didn't read any books on that. Sorry to say I have no videos on this as it's not what became my painting style as an adult, since I headed in a more complicated watercolor painting direction. (maybe I should do a video on calligraphic florals or birds at some point...:p) However, if you search for one stroke watercolor painting or chinese watercolor painting, you should be able to find videos on KZread with someone posting one stroke or calligraphic florals. I did search for and find a nice artist on instagram who is not a professional calligrapher, but she is experimenting with one stroke flowers and they look a lot like what I would call calligraphic florals if I was still doing them. She's shared lots of images and short vids, and I hope maybe this will be helpful to you!--she @jensweeney4 on instagram.com

Thanks for the review Hajra, I had never heard of this brush before. The demo you did says it all, not really a necessity. 💞💫

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, Kim. :D Yes, not a desert-island-wish-list brush for sure!

Never heard of this. I liked the super pointy filbert, that’s for the wish list.

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

yeah, this triangle brush is the zebroid of brushes, possible but not necessarily an improvement.

Thanks for the very informative video!

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

you're very welcome, so glad you found it useful!

@onemig00

6 жыл бұрын

Hajra Meeks OMG you replied :) I've been watching your vids since the gouache and watercolor comparisons

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

XD Of course I replied! I take great pride in responding to just about every comment I get on KZread; I really appreciate someone taking the time to leave support or input. It is what makes posting videos worth it for me, otherwise I'd just make art in private. :D Thanks so much for watching my videos for so long, and wishing you joy and epic art adventures!

An unusual looking brush, for sure. Just doesn't seem like a necessary one to have. I am enjoying my pointed filbert brush (from one of your giveaways) like one shown here. Sometimes I avoid using it because I'm afraid of ruining it LOL. But it does hold the water nicely and keeps that lovely point.

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

yes, you got the new pointed filbert just like the one I show in this vid. :D It should last a long while, don't be afraid of using it. And yeah, I was curious after hearing about the wedge/triangle brush, but a triangle brush is definitely not a must-have or "miracle brush" for me, does the same stuff other brushes already do.

Nice comparison there Hajra - thank you! I have long been acquainted with this wedge brush in the synthetic form as I initially started painting in the decorative painting style with acrylics (which I hated) and then switched to oils. We carried the Scharff brush line in our small painting shoppe and this was one of the brushes in that line. It’s one I grabbed from my left over inventory storage and added to my watercolour brush case because I enjoy it’s uses along with angles, flats and rounds. Scharff also has what is called a Supreme Script in 3 sizes which, when fully loaded provides the longest continuous flow of colour I’ve ever seen. Loved it with both acrylics and oils so I grabbed that from excess storage too as it seems to me to offer a fun opportunity with WC work.

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

you're welcome. wow, you know a lot more about the triangle brush than I do, I tried it for the first time in this video. I have a script liner, but never had or used a supreme script. You should do a video yourself sometime about these various special brushes you know all about!

@Via_Von

6 жыл бұрын

Hajra Meeks awww thanks but my video-making days are long past. Today, my creativity needs to fit on my Ikea lap tray as I do all of my art in my bedchair. 😊 It took me forever (not really - since last July! lol) to find supply (water holders, WC palette, cloth/Viva space and a brush holder for those in process, etc.) solutions to fit that space but I finally did it and am happily moving forward now. Before, I was only able to work with WC Pencils and W&N WC Markers so the traditional WC now is oodles of fun! ❤️

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you have tools and a setup so you can enjoy watercolor, Von. So wonderful that you take your time and choose to do art with some of it, it's a beautiful thing.

@Via_Von

6 жыл бұрын

Hajra Meeks Thank you - you’re so sweet! ❤️ I’ve got one fully functional limb and as long as it keeps functioning, I will keep creating. When it stops, I will learn to hold that brush in my teeth and create colourful impressionistics and abstracts!! LOL

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

Brava to your spirit and resilience and positive attitude, very inspiring!

This month's goodies are all paper and expensive brushes hun! I love florals most and these brushes cater to floral painting. I invested in the M tri, and SBV 1/4 dagger striper. I tried cancelling the xsmall, but I may end up with it as well. It is time for me to pull brushes from my collection, a small box to stow them away for later years, or gifts if I find opportunity, but I have the cheapest spotters on the planet. I dont know what's good or not. I just use them, the better ones. Thanks for this video again, I am looking at brush stroke vids today

@HajraMeeks

5 жыл бұрын

awesome, you will be the brushstroke queen very soon I imagine!

Hiya Hajra!!! Would you list those colours you used? They are gorgeous !!! Calligraphy looks fun with a brush. Those fllowers would make lovely needle work patterns . triangle brush looks like a bit of fun.

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, calligraphic flowers are fun, and you can do them with an angle brush or flat brush, too, which I actually like better for the calligraphic, one-stroke stuff over the triangle brush. I wouldn't say that if I was traveling I could replace two brushes with the one wedge/triangle brush. I think it's totally fine to replace a round brush, but not equal to replacing an angle brush. The angle gives solid, predictable angles, and the triangle does not, so I couldn't replace an angle brush. The colors were more than I typically use as I used them from dot card samples. For the yellows: vanadium yellow, aureolin yellow, new gamboge. For the reds and violets (these were the prettiest ones, and I will be using them alone for a floral fuschia masters study in the future--loved the cool reds and warm violets!): potters pink, bordeaux, perylene violet, manganese violet. For the blues: cobalt turquoise, phthalo blue, ultramarine blue. For the greens: chromium oxide green.

Out of curiosity, I have a flat brush that came with a small set of brushes I received as a gift, that looks like a comb. Up to a certain point, it's a normal flat, but at the end, there are longer and shorter sections. I can think of uses for it, but I've never seen anyone use one. Any suggestions for intended uses for this odd brush?

@HajraMeeks

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's for drawing grass or fur or hair--the flat combs with uneven hair are for those sort of wispy textural dry brush effects.

@equesdeventusoccasus

5 жыл бұрын

@@HajraMeeksthank you. I have actually used it for grass, and once for crenellation on a distant wall. I usually forget I have it until after I could have used it.

I have a brush called a "deerfoot" brush. It's nearly the same as the triangular brush you demonstrated. Makes the shape of a deer hoof

@HajraMeeks

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I have one of those deerfoot brushes, too!--I might even have shown it in passing in this video, it's a lot of fun. :)

thanks for doing this video, I don't have many watercolor brushes. I love my Black velvet rounds the most. And is that blue your favorite color?

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome, and Black Velvets are my favorite brushes, too!

@ahreftasha

6 жыл бұрын

I actually got really lucky, a few years ago for my birthday my father in law got me a gift card for Jerry's Artorama, and I just picked a number 4 bc I liked the way it looked, not because I knew anything about paint brushes....and it's been the best brush I've ever owned. Recently I got a number 2 and it's been a game changer! Do you recommend any art books for a self teaching seeker, like you?

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

How wonderful, quality watercolor brushes are really trusty friends! I only have a handful of art books now as we've come of age in the internet era, so a lot of info is just easily pulled up online. But my favorite art books include: Any one of Billy Showell's watercolor floral books, Susan Harrison Tustain's Glorious Garden Flowers in Watercolor, Nita Leland's Confident Color, James Gurney's books Color & Light and Imaginative Realism, and any of Andrew Loomis' old figure drawing books.

@ahreftasha

6 жыл бұрын

thank you!

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

Hey! Got your card from my po box today, thanks so much for the card, sweet note, and the Alice in Wonderland bookmark!

I have never seen a Triangle brush before what a funny looking brush. But as you said, it doesn't do much other than what the other brushes do already. I did not know you did calligraphy? Super cool. I am somewhat new in calligraphy, I started in the beginning of last year and I love to combine calligraphy with my watercolor paintings. Thank you for the review.

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome, Aviaja! Yeah, I've done calligraphy in numerous fonts (my favorites are old gothic, italic, and roundhand) since I was 12. So wonderful you combine watercolor and calligraphy in your art! Glad you enjoyed the review. :D

@aviaja2008

6 жыл бұрын

my favorite scripts are engrosser, copperplate, and Spencerian. I am trying to learn gothic/black letters but I must admit it is the most difficult script to learn. I am impressed by your diverse talents. wow. I wish you a wonderful and creative weekend. :D

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, you're so sweet! Yeah, gothic was complex, but I was so obsessed with it that I learned it. I first learned italic (in a whole semester calligraphy class at school when I was 12), and then I learned roundhand and gothic on my own later that year. Then I did a lot of calligraphy on anything I could--art, cards, bookmarks--for years and years. I haven't done much calligraphy for the past few years due to hand injuries and pain from JHS, but I sure am glad I learned it when I was a lot younger as it's knowledge that's inside me still. :) Wishing you a weekend with rest and epic art, too!

@aviaja2008

6 жыл бұрын

JHS is that what also is called hypermobility?

@HajraMeeks

6 жыл бұрын

yeah, JHS is hypermobility. I also have chronic hives--allergy issues, but it's my severe hypermobility which has caused a lot of pain and injury starting several years ago in my early 20s.

I paid over 15 for 2 of them, closer to 20...they have gone up in price along with the hype, but truly, I needed good brushes, and have collected them in small spurts. I feel I got my money's worth in quality with the Silver brushes. I love them.

@HajraMeeks

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed--the silver brush black velvet brushes are really amazing and my favorites, too.

@TerrieJohnson731

5 жыл бұрын

the triangle M that I do like first impression is in their Ruby Satin Line. I may have a look to see what's around in there. I really need a SBV 6. Maybe next time. I got a Neptune that is just a dud-only way to explain it without writing you an even longer story. xo

I think that you missed the real use of the triangle brush. If you look at how to use a triangle brush on you tube you should see what I mean. Leaving out it’s main use made this a very weak review.

@HajraMeeks

4 жыл бұрын

I did mention and show that the triangle brush can be used for one stroke painting of flowers and such. But for those not doing those one-stroke type botanicals, it's use is similar to an angle or dagger for other purposes--that's the point of my review, and I've found it quite useful as I use it; not everyone will do one-stroke with it.