A second-generation house painter and third-generation tradesman, Parma native Michael Kowal recently opened up Wal’s Paints in Parma Heights.

Here he’s posing with the electric paint brush which he developed after seeing some local painters struggling with brushes and buckets at the top of a ladder. His system uses a 1 hp motor to ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Making a Series 7 kolinsky sable watercolor brush isn't easy. The largest-size brush can take almost a week and a half to make. You can pick up a ...