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Okay, okay, I confess. I went out and bought a 6 hair brush after I painted this apple and could not make any brushes that I owned make the little tiny dots I wanted on the apple. I have always thought such tiny brushes ridiculous, but I now I know they are essential for tiny paintings with tiny details.
Have I succumbed to the disease of "The only thing keeping me from painting like ________ is that my brush is not as good as his?" Perry Acker disabused me of this idea years ago when he said that a really good watercolorist could make a good painting using a piece of rope for the brush, and then proceeded to show us the worst brush we had ever seen and proceeded to paint superbly with it. But I am a firm believer in good equipment and materials making life easier.
What is really bad is the price of a 6 hair brush is about the same as a 50 hair brush. You really don't get much for your money! But then maybe it takes special skill to make such a tiny brush.
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