- RMN Handmade Paint Brushes -: 12/04/13

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

This keeps getting better - I love making brushes!

As if the first message that Tennessee potter shared isn't enough, she just sent this:

I just love the brushes ,so does hubby so I will order 2 more in another week or so. I will post some of the work we did with them tomorrow or the next day.

Now I understand the excitement my wife feels when someone comes back for another piece of her pottery. This feels really good - I know they're good brushes and the wife says they're good brushes and her friends say they are good brushes... But it seems so much more real when strangers are saying they're good brushes!! This is great! The wife promised to keep her eyes open for pics of the work this potter is doing.

Introduction

In addition to being a carpenter and tile man, I am a fisherman who ties his own flies. My wife is a potter who loves to have new brushes and can't seem to control herself in the brush aisle of any art store. I looked at those brushes. They're pretty much very large flies, so I started to make them for her pottery work. I made a few as thank you gifts for the folks who let me into their garden for bamboo for handles, have the mane from their horses, and take the tails from their deer. Then her friends found out where she was getting her brushes. Now I make them for craft shows. Somehow, this wasn't really what I had in mind when I was trying to keep my wife out of the art supply stores......