Watercolor Painting Tutorial - How I use the Dagger Paintbrush - Watercolor Painting Techniques 

Using the wet dagger brush to dilute the soft pastel marks really blew my mind ... Love it 😍!

I like the idea of just loading the tip with the straight watercolor while wetting the rest of the brush with a more watery mixture.

Loading the brush with water and then the tip in the pigment, very helpful. Thx!

Your description of how the color mixes and flows with the water……is EXACTLY how I think of it when I paint! ❤

I didn’t realize there were such marvelous tools as Dagger brushes nor what I could do with their aide nor how could I create without one. I now see from this workshop I am not alone. This is what I learnt this evening.

As an artist, I found myself riveted on leaving the brushes in the water. Rinse and lay them down always. The outlines detract from the beautiful flow. Otherwise, thanks for an inspiring video. Loved the techniques.

I love the way you load two colors on the brush then make the petal. I am a beginner and haven't seen any artist do this before.

I bought a dagger brush but felt a bit intimidated by it as it’s so long, but seeing you working with your has inspired me to try using it. It certainly help to see a demo, thank you.

Thank you Emily i recently gave up on my dagger brushes, i shall give this a try.

Your work is lovely! And I adore your approach to the process--that you're more focused on the process than controlling outcomes. Watercolor is a medium that I love, but have rarely used. It's been calling out to me over the last couple of years, though, and I recently decided it was time to pull some out to play. I'm so excited that the algorithm just happened to recommend this video--it was totally inspiring! Looking forward to exploring this method. Thank you so much for sharing!

Thank you for these helpful excersices.

I bought the brushes years ago ! I am going to enjoy getting reacquainted. The video has inspired me paint with a bit more confidence! Thank you Emily - beautiful colour palette!

Thanks for explaining the differences in the dagger brushes and how the work

Thank you for showing how to use the dagger brush. I shall definitely have a try.

I love what you do with your brush as those colors. Came upon you just as I was wondering how to use paint once my surreal drawings with details are finished.thanks

I really appreciate your demonstration of the dagger! I got mine out to paint along and being a quill girl, the dagger offers different strokes, fun, free, organic! Thx!!

MEILLEURE démonstration que j’aie vue! Commentaires justes et instructifs. Merci 🙋🏻‍♀️

Love that you gave so much information on each different brush. Very helpful

Thank you so much for taking time to share your knowledge. I truly appreciate it!

Thank you! Loved seeing how you used these-I’ve been intrigued by them.

Thank you Emily, I found it very helpful, when you talked about water load , then dip tip into color.👍 I have been practicing with the dagger after I saw a different video about painting sweet peas. I Found yours very helpful. Thank you for sharing.

Great demo. Thanks for showing off these brushes.

I am so grateful to have found this video. I am going to buy some of the Princeton Brushes because I've heard so much good info. about them. Your video however, helped me decide which ones I would most like to try through your clear and concise demonstration. Thank you so much sharing. I'll be saving this one, too! 👩‍🎨💖

Lovely work! Oh my you must try the silver black velvet 3/8 dagger brush. It is gloooooriously natural strokes and holds a crazy amount of water.

I thought I was the only one who used dagger brushes almost exclusively in my watercolor paintings. I have many brands (love the aqua elite), and sizes large to 1/8". I just love the exquisite mark making a dagger can do. I also love using my dagger striper brushes - the ones used for pin striping on motorcycles - the very short handles are such a pleasure to use to get very unique marks. It takes practice with these, as they r extremely soft. Very lovely video!!!

I love the Princeton daggers as well. The aqua elite is my favorite too. It's that firm but a little floppy middle ground that gives u both a controlled leaf as well as the organic flowing marks .

This is great. Thank you so much. Could you show us waves in water, eg., ocean / lake ❤

Nice tutorial, with great examples. I may reinstate my dagger brush into my preferred brushes after seeing your results

I love watching this process, and the dagger brushes are a must! I just ordered these three and will enjoy creating some expressive splashes of color. Thanks so much for sharing!

I have a Tintoretto #6, and you have inspired me to start using it. Love your work.

So happy I found you on RU-vid, thanks for this awesome tutorial ❤

I LOVED this teaching video! Ty so much! And great job! Now, I have a couple of the dagger like brushes, not the Princeton’s, and they don’t work basically. Plus, this is harder than it looks and I’m going to have to practice, I can see that. Now, off to buy the brushes and ty so much again! I’ll be watching and practicing with you’re video for days I’m sure. I love the strokes that you get from these brushes. Gorgeous. I have big plans!!! Happy Day to you!!!

Excellent video, well edited, great info, and dreamy painting. I bought a set of 4 sizes of Kingart daggers after watching Kristy Rice paint with her own brand of daggers. I love working with mine. Definitely prefer my larger sized ones like yours to the tiny quarter inch on. I also have a Cheap Joe’s Scroggy Loose Goose Dagger Striper that is absolutely uncontrollable and fun, but gives a completely different effect. I think the daggers are helping me improve my florals and negative edge work. I just subscribed!

i have the aqua elite dagger brush. never thought of loading two different pigments on it... you created beautiful effects by doing that. and fully water- loading the open end, with more concentrated pigment at the closed end. i will try both these techniques. thank you!

Love the way you used the dagger! It makes me want to try it ❤, I don’t like the dagger with long hair!! Can’t control it, I began to use the one with short hairs, Thank you 🙏

so nice to meet you today i subscribed.i have only one dagger and hundreds of other brushes ,i got the princeton heritage 4 set ,very nice brushes,thank you

You had a great abstract face at the top of your palette lol and then you went over it. Which is a good idea I want to try--make a mess on a palette and see what might be on it and copy it :)

First, thank you for your generosity and your Talent. I am a beginner and just by chance happened upon your terrific channel! I just subbed! You’ve made me feel like I have a shot at this medium of watercolor that I love so so much. I’m binge watching today but I like to then slow down and rewatch and make notes and paint along. Wow! Can you tell I’m excited?

I love how you overload with water and only use pigment on the tip! And the use of chalk paste is is so so cool! Just discovered you and very happy to have! Can you tell me what type of paper you use? I'm on a limited budget and am learning paper can really make the difference!

Beautiful use of these brushes. I love the loose flow between the warm black (Payne's Gray) and the olive paint. I'm experimenting with dagger brushes and it's a thrilling new area of watercolor. Thanks for sharing and comparing these 3 kinds of bristles. I am worried for you, though because you seem to be leaving your brushes not only soaking in water, but with the tips crunched against the bottom of your water cup. The water could soak up into the glue holding the bristles in the ferrule and dissolve that glue. And the bristles could get permanently bent if you leave them sitting bristles down in a cup. Also, I'm really hoping that is a striper brush (making stripes) rather than a stripper brush because this is a family channel. Haha. Very nice content. Keep sharing! Thank you.

I have the Neptune one, and I never use it. I should of gotten a smaller one, but loose painting intimidates me even though in,one the look of it! I may have to try a smaller aqua elite version. I love aqua elite! Not gonna lie, I had a bit of a heart attack seeing you leave your brushes sitting in the water! That was one of the first things I was taught when I started watercolour! NEVER leave your brushes sitting in water! 😂 cool work!

Thank you for this. I’m a little intimidated by the Neptune but I’m going to give it another shot. You may have managed to instill some new confidence.

lovely tutorial ;D i have rosemary&co's dagger and sword. seems like your princeton ones shown here are quite varied. i'd say the aqua elite is most similar to sword/swordliner.

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Thank you for this lovely demonstration. Just one little note it’s not a stripper. It’s a striper as in making a thin line. “Str eye per”

Thank you very much. This was very interesting especially the way that you showed the different brushes. What surprised me, because I am a newbie, is the soft pastel and how you could make it look as though you’re doing a nice wash with it. One question is once the pieces complete. what do you need to do to make sure that the pastel doesn’t come off? Do you apply a fixative, and what does that do to the watercolors if you do? 2nd question - what brand of soft pastels do you use, & why do you like them? I really loved your presentation and it inspires me to go and play and be much more relaxed in my process. Thank you.

I am a beginner in watercolor and do lots if florals. I recently joined a group for Wash & Ink. I love what you did with *pastel* and I would like to incorporate that with my inking. I have no idea what kind of pastel to buy - - I'd love just a black and maybe a brown to outline. Can you lead me in the right direction by giving me a brand or something. thank you ♡ 5:57 (5/02)

Great, detailed excellence. Very inspirational. Thank you for posting it. Can you tell me what watercolor paint you use. Thank you so much.

Thank you for this lesson! Where May I find how to sign up for private lessons as you mentioned?

Where did you get that fabulous pallette/paint tray? I need that!

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HI Emily, I am a beginner and learning about everything. In what kind of situations would you use the umbria with its greater structure? thank you

Can you show an art work done predominantly with this brush?

Omg, why do you leave your paintbrushes sitting in water?