A spotter is the exact opposite of a rigger. Where a rigger has long hair to hold as much paint as possible, a spotter has the shortest hair of any fine brush — so short that almost nothing separates your fingers from the paint. Less paint in the head, more control at the tip. That trade is the entire design.

The name comes from photographic retouching. Before digital editing, prints were repaired by hand: dust specks and scratches were filled in dot by dot with a brush this size, and the job was called spotting. The brush outlived the job, and model painters, miniature figure painters and nail artists inherited it.

Size 10/0 is among the smallest sizes made. This is the brush for the pupil of a painted eye, a buckle on a 28mm figure, a rivet on a model aircraft, a single dot in nail art, or repairing a hairline gap where two colours met badly. It is not the brush for anything larger, and it will run dry quickly if you ask it to be.

Short hair also means it does not flick. A long-haired fine brush stores energy and springs back at the end of a stroke, which is what makes a rigger draw such fluid lines and what makes it useless for a controlled dot. A spotter simply goes where you put it.

It comes from Daler-Rowney's Graduate range, with a white pearl-finish handle and black ferrule, printed GRADUATE with DALER ROWNEY and the word Spotter, and the size 10/0 marked along the handle.

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