Well-Used Watercolors

 A new set of paints is a thing of beauty, with perfect, jewel-like pans set in a pristine tin. They hold the promise of all the ideas that the new owner has floating in her head. The beauty of the untouched colors can make a new set become a precious object. It’s intimidating to wet a brush and violate that perfect beauty. But THIS is what a set of watercolors should look like. They are a tool, to be used and enjoyed, to bring an artist’s ideas out onto the paper.