These intriguing tools give you an entirely new way to handle paint, inks and drawing materials. Traditional hardwood paintbrush handles are pared with durable Colour Shaper tips made from an advanced rubber composite. Eight tip shapes make it easy to create exciting effects on all media. In oils and acrylics, Colour Shapers allow you to shape and carve into the paint, build impasto, control glazes and maintain crisp edges. With watercolors and drawing materials, both the soft and the firm tips are as useful for precise application and erasure as they are for texturing. Their ability to both add and subtract ink makes them extremely useful for monotypes and other printmaking techniques. The ivory-colored soft tips are designed for use with fluid and soft colors, and the firm grey tips give great control with heavy bodied paints and inks. Cleaning Colour Shapers is easy-a quick dip in solvent, alcohol or water and wipe with a rag and they are ready to use with a different color. The new Flat Wide and Curved Wide Colour Shapers feature broad heads for larger surface applications and bold strokes. They have firm gray tips.