Exactly how many art supplies are at arm's reach when I am making a painting? And how much do those supplies cost?

Something artists do not like to think of when making art is how much is how much is it costing me to make art? Granted I spent most all of my travel budget to London, Amsterdam and Paris on paint in the London Windsor and Newton store on a trip years ago and still have one or two of those tubes left. Other than that I am always buying new paint.

So for me it's about $1100. in supplies on hand at all times.

Paper:  $50 worth of full watercolor sheets on hand

Paint: Watercolor professional grade Windor and Newton
$450 worth of watercolor tubes are always on hand. Much of watercolor painting involves putting pigment down and then removing some or nearly all of it while still wet- not very eficient but that’s how it is.

Paint: Acrylic  professional grade larger tubes
$214 worth of large tubes on hand

Color pencils
$150 worth  in Prismacolor pencils. Iindividual pencils cost $1.40 each.

Watercolor Brushes
$150. in watercolor brushes on hand (some are dead and just keep for the memories)

Acrylic/Oil Brushes
$80. In acrlic/oil brushes on hand

Other stuff I am using during painting process- papertowel, soft erasers, vine charcoal, pencil, digital camera, computer, prints of photographs.