Forget the Trendy Tools

Yup, I have a full set of squirrel hair brushes (expensive squirrel hair brushes) bought in a fevered rush after a watercolor workshop so my painting efforts would be greatly improved.  Has that ever happened to you?  A gizmo or product used by a workshop instructor catches your fancy because you want to paint as well as they do.  Surely the ONE right brush, the new kind of paper, some expensive markers will make all the difference.
       But you and I know that, really, the expensive extras don't make or break the quality of your work.  Good art happens when you listen to and watch an instructor, use appropriate materials to try out new skills, and then do your best to apply them to your own work.

     The extra paint sets, palette knives, etc. don't enhance your art, your effort and application do.  My set of expensive brushes, and the expensive palette pictured are gathering dust in my studio.
     So now I feel guilty for not using this stuff since I dragged it out to show you!  OK, sometime when I don't have anything else to do, I'll give them a go.  Actually, when we moved a few years ago, I was planning to put them in my studio sale to get rid of the excess.  When I priced them, I was floored!  I couldn't quite do it, so ....................