handmade paint brushes

Just came across an article about an artist making his own brushes from all natural materials.
He says it helps him to paint natural subjects!
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/07/wang-mansheng-handmade-brushes/

That's lovely. And there's this meta-artisanship that comes from making the tools that make things, that's fun. His brushes are works of art unto themselves.



It also reminds me of all the crazy tools I improvised when I had my hands in clay every day.