Sable Watercolor Brushes 9pcs Professional Superior Kolinsky Watercolor Paint Brushes for Artists Round Pointed Oval Wash for Watercolor Acrylics Gouache Inks Painting

Going into watercolors, I'm amassing quite a collection of brushes. I have to try them all and find my favorites. Natural, Synthetic, expensive, cheap. I keep going back to these Fuumuu brushes when I want a full belly brush. The bristles are shorter with a fat belly and a nice tip. I'm finding they retain a good amount of water and spread really well no matter the size. The tip does spring back nicely while working. I do switch to another brand with longer, pointier bristles when I'm needing to work on finer more controlled details, but when I need spread and looseness, these are becoming my go to brushes.The bristles are soft, but have a nice spring and after initial use and cleaning, I've not had any issues with shedding. I don't leave my brushes down in water or dig the points into the bottom of my water jar and, I lay them flat while working.I wash them after I'm done for the day using a tin of solid brush cleaner and conditioner. ,(sold here) When clean, I run them back through the cleaner/conditioner, roll and reshape the point, and lay them flat to dry with the conditioner still on them.Using them daily for 2 weeks, they have held up very well. I'm buying a backup set and a set for a friend as a gift. I highly recommend them for everyone, but especially for beginners because they are inexpensive and super quality, hard to beat. Learning will go much smoother with these. I'm liking them better than my expensive rounds.

Perfect, quality, size, functionality, and beauty. Great value for your money and no shedding.

I'm in no position to claim they are Kolinsky or even sable, but they are soft with nice spring. They hold a lot of water, shed minimally, brush beautifully & have retained their shape so well that I bought a second set. The second set came in a flat box, not the standing tube, & STANK, but airing out some brushes is easy--if you give as a gift, air out for two days. I really like them, & feel confident to buy more products from Fuumuui.

Really high quality for the price.

Perfect hair for gathering and releasing your pigments. Bristles seem secure and for the price, I'd buy it again.

shape retention

Good quality. Good variety of sizes for a good variety of projects.

Although this brush states it is kolinsky sable. It paints more like a synthetic than a natural brush. Also after using just a few times, the name on the handle has rubbed off, which seems very odd. They were very inexpensive compared to most sable brushes, but not sure they are very good quality. Are they real sable?