American Journey Brushes

Paint along with Joe! In this video and post, 'Cheap' Joe Miller demos the American Journey watercolor brush, an interlocked nylon brush that's the first of its kind. We're super proud of this brush! Because of the unique bristle structure, it holds a lot of paint and the color will go a long way when painting.

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Video Transcript:
Welcome to Cheap Joe's Test Studio! We're going to talk about watercolor brushes today. We have a good one called the American Journey Watercolor Brush. It's 100% nylon and a great brush. I'm in love with it, so let me tell you why.

This is the latest in nylon, and it's an interlocked nylon. Of course, we've had interlocked hog hair for oil painting for a long time, but this is the first interlocked nylon for watercolor. I'm just so proud of these brushes! They're not an inexpensive brush, and certainly not a cheap brush like my name, but they do hold a lot of color and the paint goes a long way when you load the brush. They also hold a wonderful, straight flat edge or point when painting.

The one I'm using is a 1-1/2" round handle flat brush, and I've activated some color and I'm going to use the brush to pick it up. It holds so much color, so I'll pick up a little bit of Cobalt Blue along with some Rose Madder or Rambling Rose, and I'm going to start by laying in a nice sky back there and let those colors mix. In the video, you can see it mixing on the paper already.

This is a quick little demo with this brush, but this will all be done with the 1.5" brush. Now I'll come back in and add a distant mountain. It's going to run, but that's okay. We're going to let it run, then I'm going to pick up a little bit of yellow and come over here to the other colors and add some little foliage in the trees right up through there.

I'm going to do the same thing, activate and pick up a little more color. Now I'm not trying to make a painting. I'm just showing you how to let this brush go and do its own thing and how much fun it is!

Look at this - I just love this thing! The shape allows for some very neat edges. Now I'll come in with a little bit different color, not much different though, and let that join together so that becomes one area. Then we can add another color, maybe a little warmer, and begin to put in some of a tree that's overlapping all of this down here. Let's allow those colors to mix together now.

First thing you know, with this big brush we've covered a lot of paper. Isn't that fun?

I'm adding some water to it and going to change the color over here. I just want to show you how wonderful this brush is. This will be a huge evergreen tree here, all from this 1-1/2" brush. When that dries, we can add some detail, add some darker color to it here and there, all with this American Journey watercolor brush that has these wonderful, wonderful points and holds a lot of colors. A great brush: American Journey Watercolor Brush.