Buy cheap paint!! Hell, buy cheap everything to start off with, I guarantee you'll feel better about ruining brushes if they only cost a buck.
Also, painting on a canvas is fun, you feel like monet, but if you buy acrylics, paint on EVERYTHING. That stuff is essentially plastic, so anything plastic is okay on, paint on it. You'd be suprised how much fun it is to paint a basketball, or fruit, or the case of your microwave. It's cheaper than buying canvasses too.
Once you get used to the brush, you'll start figuring out what you do and don't want to do with it. Painting is like sex, everyone likes to do it a different way!
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