6 ways to make a usable brush — most for free, all in under an hour.
A green twig, chewed at the end, becomes a perfectly responsive ink brush.
Roadside-found tail hair (or pet brushings) bound into a real soft-tip brush.
A hardware-store mini paint roller is a perfect soft brayer for the price of a coffee.
The cheap fluffy powder brush at the dollar store is a stunning watercolor mop.
A wooden clothespin clamping a folded scrap of felt makes a stiff stippling brush.
A bamboo skewer or large bird feather, sliced and slit — the original pen.