Escoda watercolor brushes
At lunch with an artist friend the other day we started talking about watercolors and he told me he had something to show me: his new Escoda brushes from Pablo Rubén. The brushes are beautiful by themselves, but he tells me they’ve changed the way he paints. He showed me some of his recent work and I can see the difference already.
This came up because we were talking about the inflection point at which it makes sense to buy better tools. I have often resisted buying better guitars until I feel I have played the ones I have to some kind of limit. But it’s hard to know: is this a limit of the instrument, or do I need to pay a different kind of attention to how I play?
Pretty sure I’ll be buying better watercolor paints soon, but for now I’m going to stick with my cheap brushes. (I mostly use brushes that have plastic reservoirs so I can quickly paint while hiking.)
Still, I’m making a note that it might not be long before I need to get some better brushes, too.
