Our great namesake, the universal genius Leonardo da Vinci, has created a multitude of illustrations and drawings in the course of his life, using the so-called “silver point drawing”, a very common technique since the 12th century.

This technique was in use for graphic works as well as for pre-drawings.
In his “instructions for painters”, you find the following remarks regarding nature observations:

“Always take a small booklet with you, with sheets that have been prepared with bone meal, and note your observations in haste with the silver pen…”

Cennino Cennini, an Italian painter, who taught in the beginning of the 15th century in Tuscany is the author of the famous manual “Libro dell’arte”, the most influential textbook about painting in the late medieval times. In this book, he describes in detail how to bind a brush from squirrel tail hairs.

We are very pleased to present you today a tool, which combines these two traditional painting techniques.

A historical and at the same time state-of-the-art painting tool according to the motto: “Paint and draw like Leonardo da Vinci”
– 565 years after his birth in the year 1452