Oil Painting Brushes

The brushes you use for painting should be considered investments. So it would be very important if you would learn to take care of the brushes properly. The care of the brushes will be a fairly easy task and will not take up much of your time anyway. In the long run it will be you who will benefit anyway by being able to save enough money. Here are the following ways in which you can be able to clean your brushes:1. Get a soft cloth or tissue to wipe of any excess paint that will surely be there.2. Use turpentine to wash off oils in brushes and lukewarm water if the brush has been used to paint with water based mediums. Never use hot water because the hairs will fall out because the ferrules will expand. 3. Wipe the cloth again to wash out the excess remaining paints.4. Use mild soap rather than dishwashing liquid and wash gently and mildly. Dab the brush with the soap and work up the lather in the palm of your hand. 5. Continuously repeat rinsing and dabbing with soap until there will no longer be any color that comes out. 6. Some brushes become stained when they become older, but you must still keep rinsing to remove all paints left behind.7. Once again rinse the brush with lukewarm water to remove traces of soaps. Then dry the brush by shaking it all off.8. Then use your fingers to restore the shape of the brush head into its proper shape.9. Another way to help the brush remain in shape after cleaning it is by putting or wrapping the brush head around a toilet paper. The paper will dry up and contract and then put the bristles into its proper shape or form.10. Dry the brush at room temperature. Also remember not to dry the brush resting on its head because it will misshape. The proper position would be to stand it on its back handle.11. Wear gloves to protect yourself from the toxicity of the paint when cleaning your brushes. Some signs that may be present will be the drying, cracking and staining of your skin.12. Separate the brushes you will use for oil painting and water based mediums. Also use other brushes for gesso, masking fluids and varnish.13. Don’t let acrylic paint dry on your brush because it will be irremovable and also don’t leave the brush head standing on water.14. Don’t force the paint out of the brush by pressuring it. Rinse it very well instead.15. Use hair conditioner or baby oil to rinse brushes made out of natural bristles.16. Misshaped synthetic brushes can return to shape by putting them in hot water.17.the more information you will know ,visit the oil painting

By jack wu [ 05/02/2007 ][ viewed 88 times ]

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