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For Acrylic, Oil and Watercolor Painting
Creating Brushes that Inspire
Princeton Artist Brush is one of the largest brush-makers in North America. Since they started in 1992, artist brushes have been their sole focus. While other companies offer an assortment of art supplies, Princeton focuses on making one thing: the best quality, most fair cost artist brushes available today.
About Our Brushes
Real Value Brush Sets
Real Value collection features a variety of paintbrush sets at an outstanding value. We offer the broadest range of paint brush supplies for both professional and amateur artists.
Choose from synthetic, natural or combination sets. We offer a wide range of shapes, sizes and brush handle lengths so you can find the set that’s perfect for you and your needs.
- Available in short and long-handled brushes
- 46 thoughtfully selected brush sets
- 8 distinct and affordable configurations
Why You'll Love Real Value Brushes
Versatile Painting
Real Value brush sets are ideal for all types of painting, including acrylic, watercolor, oil and tempera.
Affordable & Durable
With 8 distinct and affordable series and 46 thoughtfully selected brush sets, you’ll have no trouble find the dependability you need.
Variety of Shapes & Sizes
The Real Value brush collection features a variety of brush sizes, both short and long handles and a mixture of natural and synthetic bristles.
Kindle Customer
2025-09-01 14:26:52
This product is recommended by a Acrylic Painting teacher whose tutorials I follow online. Good economical set for students & experienced artists. Ive never had any bristles fall out and the set last quite a while with good care & cleaning.
BC
2025-08-04 12:24:16
These brushes have held up very nicely I use them alot and they hold shape and are so nice to paint with.
Gina Central
2025-08-03 11:45:05
I do like these brushes I would not say that I love them (i'm pretty picky). For a beginning watercolor artist or someone that doesn't have a lot of funds to invest, this is going to be a great product to start out with. I won't use natural hair brushes anyway because I'm just not on board with that. However they still need to be a good quality brush. I would not consider these professional artist quality but certainly better than most budget value brush. Princetons are a good quality brush. And if you can achieve the look you want using a budget brush over a more expensive brush then why spend a lot of money. I can't speak to other mediums as I primarily do mixed media with watercolor and colored pencil. So I'm afraid I won't be much help there.They hold quite a bit of water which is great but not so much if you are a beginner to get frustrated with the medium. I like that the handles have a little bit of texture to them its very slight but helps reduce slipage if you struggle with that. Kids in particular would probably really like that. I think as a first set for the money you can't beat these with a stick. I placed an image down below to show what kind of strokes you can get with each brush in this set. Hopefully that will help you. I like that its a variety of brushes. You will most likely need some bigger rounds, as the rounds in this set are pretty small.
Carol A. Phillips
2025-07-23 10:59:50
Great addition to the artist's collection. Well made and easy to use.
Kathy M
2025-07-13 09:51:49
The order came quickly and was packaged very Well.Long orange brush handles. I Did not realize the handles were long when I ordered. I do not care for long handles.My mistake. The brushes look like nice and I used them tonight for my Art/Faith cards.After using 3 of 6 brushes I gave them a 5 Star.Thank you, Amazon..
SYW
2025-06-21 14:28:16
I am a huge fan of Princeton Neptune brushes and needed an angle spotter and a #2 round brush, so I decided to give this Real Value set a try. It was purchased at $11.30, averaging to less than $2 per brush. Compared to the Neptune Aquarelle 25 (1/4), the Real Value Shader #6 released most of the colors earlier on during the wash, while the Aquarelle released the colors more evenly throughout the stroke. These brushes also obviously do not retain as much water as the Neptune series, which are known for their water holding prowess. The same can be said for the rest of the brushes, with the release being heavier in the beginning of the strokes/washes.I was hoping for the Angle Spotter to be stiffer, the goal was to use it to make small spots like stars in galaxies, but the tip bends easily, I was only able to make really fine dots when using lots of control. Compared to using the Uni-Ball Signo Medium Point 1.0mm white gel pen for stars, the size of the dots are about the same. The lines on the cactus were made with the Angle Spotter and the lines made were about 0.5-1.0mm. The flowers were made with the Angle Shader.The brushes were also stained a little green after the first use, but that's not really a big deal. I still think this set is a good set to have for beginners or even intermediates, the value for it is great.
Jamie Shuman
2025-05-26 16:35:28
I am pretty much a beginner at painting and acrylics. I was looking for some decent brushes that weren’t going to break the bank and these actually are a really good fit. They are nice and Soft and hold a lot of paint and are very easy to clean. The long handles are actually really nice to paint with because you can pull back from your artwork and get a good look at it while you’re painting. I will definitely buy these again
BaysideCreativeMedia
2025-04-13 16:34:51
I compared these to more expensive Princeton brushes and I think they perform just as well.I use them for watercolor, so nothing heavy, and they are great, I think.
Customer
2025-03-30 11:17:09
These are fantastic value brushes. I've seen a lot of complaints on other cheap synthetic brushes about bristles falling out, loose handles, etc., but after using these brushes for a few watercolour paintings and some mixing charts, etc. I haven't lost a single bristle. The handles and ferrules are sturdy and well assembled with no wobbling. The round brush holds its point when wet, and is shaped so there are a few longer bristles in the centre that allow detail work in corners and small areas where you don't want to have to switch brushes. I've used some of these for vigorously scrubbing on my watercolour paintings and they still hold their shape and haven't started to degrade, and don't have any wonky bristles causing problems when I'm painting.
Eden
2025-03-07 16:29:28
Sono molto buoni e ha un buon set forse sono molto lunghi sulla presa dell penello
GigiG
2025-02-23 17:57:30
Quality at a great price.
jolene timon
2025-01-22 18:58:58
Exactly as expected, bought for a family paint day and they worked fine. They are not the best quality brushes I own, and they are as described by the seller.
Ramonn Vieitez
2024-12-10 16:02:48
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