Daniel Gerhartz Essential Set

Born 1965 in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, where he now lives with his wife Jennifer, and their young children, Dan's interest in art emerged as a teenager. Studies at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois and his voracious appetite for museums and the modern masters such as John Singer Sargent, Alphonse Mucha, Nicolai Fechin, Joaquin Sorolla, Carl von Marr as well as a host of other French and American impressionists have inspired him. Dan has a particular interest and appreciation for modern Russian art and the sumptuous canvases of the painters Nicolai Fechin, Isaac Levitan and Ilya Repin. As Dan says, their paintings are "completely loose yet deliberate and faithful, not at all flashy." 

x1 Bravura Long Flat size 10 & 12

x1 Bravura Filbert size 3

x2 Bravura Filbert size 4, 5, 6, 8

These bristle brushes are the workhorses for me and I use these brushes for 95% of the painting. The medium to small filberts work well for cutting in intricate forms, and the larger flats are perfect for broad brush treatments and also for dry brush softening of hard transitions between forms.

x1 Series 279 - Sizes 8 & 10

These beauties are invaluable when softening transitions to a vapor-like finish between light and shadow.

x1 Eclipse Long Flat - Sizes 3 & 4

These delicate yet durable brushes work well when I need precise lines in medium-finished detail work.

x1 Eclipse Extra Long Comber - Size 1/8"

This brush is indispensable when creating calligraphic line work in trees, hair, and flowers.

x1 Series 99 - Size 3

This brush works beautifully for fine line work within tree branches and flowers and also is necessary in signing my paintings.

X1 Teardrop Palette Knife - Size Large

This pallet knife, even though quite large, can offer precision, scalpel-ike detail while also giving me the ability to flatten broad areas of texture.

x1 Ivory Pointed Round - Size 4, 6

My new favorite in cutting detail in and around facial features and flowers. These are extremely versatile, durable, and resilient brushes.

x1 91 Pure Sable Filbert - Size 6

My number one “go to” detail brush.  Nothing smaller than this brush is needed to accomplish the detail in facial features and flowers.

Please click this link for some advice on brush cleaning.

This set consists of 20 brushes & 1 palette knife (all on Long Handle):

BRUSH TYPE / SERIES	SIZE	QTY
Bravura. Long Flat	10	1	20.1	33.8
Bravura. Long Flat	12	1	24.8	38.6
Bravura. Filbert	3	1	7.5	18.5
Bravura. Filbert	4	2	9.5	22.5
Bravura. Filbert	5	2	10.6	23.8
Bravura. Filbert	6	2	12.1	25.6
Bravura. Filbert	8	2	14.8	30.5
Series 279.	8	1	16.3	28.2
Series 279.	10	1	20.2	32.0
Eclipse Long Flat	3	1	5.8	18.6
Eclipse Long Flat	4	1	8.3	20.4
Eclipse Extra Long Comber	1/8"	1	3.9	18.9
Series 91	6	1	5.3	12
Series 99	3	1	1.95	12.8
Ivory Pointed Round	4	1	5.2	21.5
Ivory Pointed Round	6	1	7.5	27.0
Teardrop Palette Knife	Large	1