#87 Joe's New Electric Guitar 4/22/19

Well, I DID celebrate my first sale with 3 new paint brushes, 3 small (5x3 inch) canvases and a tube of Terre Verte green paint from Howard's Art Supply store.  I think they might be hurting for business at Howards....as I was the only patron in the store on a Saturday, and the crew was eating, when I told them I was ready to check out, the one guy looked at what I had and said, "You just need to buy 3 more things."  Not sure what that meant, but perhaps if I had bought 3 more things he would have met a quota of some sort.  I used one of my new paint brushes and one of the small canvases on this particular painting.  I decided it was a good size and shape to do a close-up of Joe's new electric guitar he got a few months ago.  It's a beautiful pale blue color.  I couldn't find exactly the same brush that I had purchased there before, but I got 3 of the "angle" style brushes.  My favored broken brush is smaller than the 3 I was able to find at Howards this time, but I thought "hey, oil artist advice on the internet is full of "don't use small brushes.""  Alas, I wasn't a fan of the first new brush put into practice on this painting.  Its bristles were too thin, too floppy and it couldn't seem to hold the paint so that it was available to put down on the canvas.  I couldn't get into tight corners like I can with my broken brush.  So, this small 5x3 guitar seemed to take forever.  Plus, after cleaning the new brush after just one use, the bristles look mangy.  What the heck?!