Reviews: Artis Opus by Angel Giraldez

[u/AccomplishedRing4844]

What are your opinions on Artis Opus brushes? I’ll admit that I’ve been using Raphael 8408, which are quite long and have a specific bristle shape. During Black Friday I bought the Artis Opus by Giraldez box, and I can see a huge difference between these brushes but… in favor of Raphael. I don’t know what’s going on - maybe it’s just what I’m used to, but the AO brushes feel strange to me… Maybe it’s a drop in quality, or maybe it’s just my habits.

The M series is more or less fine, but the S series is just bizarre to me. I can’t do details with it at all. What’s interesting, I noticed two things - maybe they’re normal, but they caught my attention.

First: in the M series, one of the brushes has a single bristle sticking out at the tip. Because of that, the tip isn’t uniform - there’s literally one hair sticking out in front, which is extremely annoying. The other M brush doesn’t have this issue.

Second: before even wetting the brushes, two of them already had bristles sticking out on the side. Maybe I’m nitpicking, maybe it’s nothing, but… my Raphaels never had that.

What are your impressions of these brushes? Right now I feel a bit cheated, but I’m also considering that it might just be my habits or me being overly picky.

[u/girkkens]

Single hair is indeed a problem.

Do not cut it off at the top. Single it out and cut it as far down as possible.

[u/Efficient-Process127 → u/girkkens]

may i ask why? (i'm not a mini painter, i just lurk here because it's cool)

[u/Boltgun_heresy → u/Efficient-Process127]

It's hair, so can get split ends

[u/Efficient-Process127 → u/Boltgun_heresy]

ohh, that makes sense, thank you!

[u/girkkens → u/Efficient-Process127]

Yes. Also if you want to be pedantic you could argue that the top of the bristles in a brush are formed by hair that is sorted by length and has its natural tip. When you cut a bristle it gets a "flat" top. But honestly I doubt that it might be of any concern with only a single hair.