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Save Those Expensive Brushes

A tip to help you with your watercolour painting

By , About.com Guide

Save those expensive brushes: when mixing water colours on a palette use a cheap synthetic brush to do the mixing, and use your expensive sable brushes only for applying the paint to your picture.
Tip from: Alan Dell

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