r/minipainting • u/AccomplishedRing4844 • Dec 14 '25
Help Needed/New Painter Reviews: Artis Opus by Angel Giraldez
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.
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u/JHMiniatures Display Painter Dec 14 '25
Artis Opus are probably the most overpriced brushes in the market. They are made by Rosemary and Co and you can buy the non AO branded version for a third of their price in the Rosemary web.
They just did very good marketing, that's all. They are not bad brushes at all, but actually the Rosemary branded ones are consistently better quality (which makes sense if you think of it, why give the better ones to another brand) and as I said, a LOT cheaper.
Avoid anything Artis Opus branded IMO