Series 32 Tree & Texture Brush

Why painters keep one in the jar

About the brush

Trees and foliage are the classic stumbling block in landscape painting — it's easy to end up with flat, shapeless green. The Series 32 is Rosemary & Co's answer: a natural badger-hair brush cut and set so the tips break into irregular clumps, exactly the shape you need to suggest masses of leaves without painting them one by one.

Badger is the traditional hair for this job — coarse enough to hold its splay and move texture around, but soft enough to lay it down cleanly. Load it, tap or pounce it onto the surface, and you get instant broken foliage. It's a favourite for landscapes, trees, foliage and shrubbery, and it works across watercolour, oils and acrylics.

Built on a short handle for close, controlled work at the easel or table.

How to get the effect

• Hold the brush fairly upright and stipple or pounce — tap the tips onto the surface rather than dragging, to build clusters of leaves.
• Work in layers: block the darker mass first, then dab lighter greens on top for depth and dappled light through the canopy.
• Keep the load on the drier side for crisp, broken texture; a wetter load gives softer, fuller masses.
• Leave gaps — sky holes between the clumps are what make a canopy read as real foliage.

Size guide

Measurements in mm. All sizes are on a short (~7″) handle. Choose your size from the drop-down at the top.

Looking after natural hair

This is natural badger hair, so a little care keeps it performing. Rinse under running water, work a gentle bar soap through with your palm, rinse clean, then reshape and dry. If you're using acrylics, clean it between sessions — dried acrylic is hard to remove and will stiffen the hair. Store dry and condition from time to time.

Straight talk

This is a specialist brush that does one family of jobs — foliage and texture — brilliantly. It's not a general-purpose brush and won't hold a point for line work or lay flat washes. Please note it's made from natural badger hair, so it isn't vegan; if you need an animal-free option, Rosemary's synthetic stipplers cover similar ground. Bought for what it's designed to do, it's hard to beat.

At a glance

📦 In the box: 1× Rosemary & Co Series 32 Tree & Texture brush in your chosen size.

🚚 Fast dispatch from Derby

Order before 3 PM (Mon–Fri) and it goes out the same day. We're in Derby, right by the Royal Mail Midlands superhub, so your parcel gets moving fast.

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International buyers welcome — tracked worldwide shipping available.