Brush Care

On the weekend I was crafting!  I needed to apply some gesso!  so I pulled out my brush box!  Wow!  I have a lot of brushes!  But a lot of them are 20 + years old!  I always took the time and cleaned them properly!

Acrylic paints are really hard on brushes!    I have used a number of products over the years to clean!  But I guess my favorite is my little jar of paint soap and the lid has texture for working the soap and paint from the bristles!  This weekend I couldn't find that so I just used my glycerin soap and my hand!  (I also was fond of Murphy's oil soap)

So here are some of my rules!

•  often rinse while painting;  as soon as the paint gets less than 1/2 way up the fibers; I rinse!
• lay flat to dry!
• don't leave a brush standing in the water dish;  it bends the bristles
• use cold water to wash the brushes!

Now I have another set for watercolor painting!  :)

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