Burt Silverman is one of America’s foremost realist painters. His work has won 32 major awards from national organizations including five awards from the National Academy of Design, the Silver Medal of the American Watercolor Society and the 2004 Gold Medal of the Portrait Society of America.

Burt has been commissioned to paint portrait covers for Time magazine and has drawn portraits of over 125 people profiled in The New Yorker. He is also one of the few painters to have been elected to the prestigious Society of Illustrator’s Hall of Fame and the Pastel Society of America’s Hall of Fame.

The Master Collection has been selected by Burt to capture the essence of the brushes he uses on an everyday basis, while the Basic Set offers the perfect starting point for the figurative artist. Both brush sets provide the most versatile tools for Burt’s “built up” style of image making.

Figure Painting Master Collection contains 18 brushes: one Grand Prix Round(size 2), seven Grand Prix Flats (one size 8, two each of sizes 2, 4, and 6), two Grand Prix Brights (sizes 6 and 12), three Grand Prix Filberts (sizes 1, 4, and 8), two Renaissance Brights (sizes 6 and 8), one Renaissance Cats Tongue (size 8), and two Renaissance Silver Scripts (sizes 2 and 4). The set also comes with a free canvas Travel Tote for a total of 19 pieces.

Figure & Drawing Basic Brush Set contains 13 brushes: one Silverstone Round (size 2), two Silverstone Flats (sizes 10 and 12), two Silverstone Brights (sizes 6 and 8), three Silverstone Filberts (sizes 4, 6, and 8), three Silverwhite Script Liners (sizes 1, 4, and 6), one Silver Kolinsky Flat (size 8), and one silver Kolinsky Oval (size 6).