The aquafine short handled watercolour brushes set contains a set of watercolour essentials to create your art piece compatible with both watercolours and gouache these short handled brushes allow for control and detailing as well as even spreads of paint across your watercolour paper without scratching or damagethe brushes are synthetic imitating the high quality smoothness of sable brushes the artificial quality of the hairs reduces the risk of losing shape and guarantees a long life as