Oil painting brushes

My most important tools are obviously brushes. Here are my favorites at the moment:

• Escoda bristle filberts
• Isabey mongoose rounds 
• Silver Brush ruby satin synthetics rounds and filberts

I typically use around two dozen brushes in a painting session. I don’t like rinsing them while painting and prefer to have new clean brushes per color. To clean brushes, I rinse in oil then use Studio Products’ Ugly Dog soap which works great. I also use Reine Kernseife pure curd soap from Natural Pigments. It comes in very cute little ivory bars.