Brushes For Landscapes (and sea)
- Marion Dutton
- Apr 3, 2024
- 2 min read
Here you’ll find my recommended Rosemary & Co brushes for landscapes and seascapes. They’re perfect for painting trees, skies, water, and textured natural effects. You don’t need these exact brushes, but I suggest finding good equivalents or using similar ones you already own.
Personal preference determines whether you opt for a long or short handle.
The Ultimate Bristle Filbert
Sizes Recommended
are 1, 3 & 6
Create for creating trees & foliage and stippling effects
Classic Fans
Sizes Recommended are 1, 3 & 4
Perfect for Trees and Foliage and water effects.
Evergreen Short Flats
Sizes Recommended:
0, 2, 4, 6 & 8
Perfect for flat details and blocking in colour. The workhorse of painting.
Evergreen Riggers
Sizes Recommended
0, 2 & 4
Fine lines & details, tree limbs & rigging
Series 301 Pointed Rounds
Sizes Recommended
0, 2, 4 & 6
Small details
Smooshing Brushes
Sizes Recommended
Extra small, small & Medium
But the large is also superb
Amazing for clouds and sea foam
Mundy Mops
Sizes Recommended
1/4", 1/2" & 1" - However the set of 5 is great value!
For Softening backgrounds, clouds and skies.
The Series 142 Domed Round (not essential)
Perfect for scrubbing, and stippling in oil and acrylic the unique shape of these bristles gives some fabulous textures for trees and is also fabulous for some dry brush work with acrylic, because they are a bristle they take some abuse with stippling creating an amazing texture.
Tree & Texture Brush Series 32
The Series 32 badger hair brushes are designed to simplify the art of painting trees and foliage.
Maz Says: This is perfect for trees and other texture effects. I have all three but opt for 3/8th (middle size) if you are only buying one.
Set 45 Landscape Set for All Mediums (16 brushes)
Rosemary & Co no longer make the M.J. Smith sets, Michael decided to outsource from overseas. The brushes in his 'old' sets are our standard lines and weren't unique to Michael; they just happened to be his 'go-to & favourite' brushes. We have our own in-house sets of these brushes to make ordering easy for you.
Set 45 contains 16 brushes from various ranges to help you achieve landscapes, foliage, trees, grasses, etc. It's very popular as a go-to landscape set.
