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Redrobin
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| 10/06/2007 2:39 PM |
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| Is there a way of removing paint from a brush? Someone told me paint remover but trhis seemed more troble than it needs to be.Any ideas? Thanks. Redrobin |
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JM Artist
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| 10/06/2007 7:45 PM |
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Take if from an award winning acrylic painter...throw it away, it's easier to buy a new brush.
Acrylics are very harsh on brushes to begin with.
They may last only a few months at best even with constant cleaning.
While I would never use a expensive brush painting with acrylic, I wont use a cheap one either.
But if any one has a better idea on how to clean, I'd like to hear it too. |
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JM Artist
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dickens14
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| 10/07/2007 11:13 AM |
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| I question this as well. I agree with get a new brush but I do have a couple expensive sables that I have some amount of dried paint in and it does not make sense to replace them for what I spent on the brushes. Most of my work is done with bristle brushes, but there are some strokes where it calls for the sables. |
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Lucy Dickens
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billmahler
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| 10/09/2007 8:35 PM |
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Paint remove won't do it. If the brush is synthetic, it might even dissolve the brush.
My biggest problem was overloading the brush and letting the paint get up into the ferrule. No amount of cleaning can remove it.
I try to keep the paint on the tip now and my brushes are lasting longer.
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..send ye not therefore to know for whom the bell tolls- it tolls for thee. John Donne
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sandichot
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| 10/13/2007 7:38 PM |
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A lesson I learned so far in acrylic painting: never let the paint go dry on a brush. I always have a jar of water by my side when I paint. As soon as I finish painting with a brush I put it in the water jar. When I finish my session I wash all the brushes with dish detergent one by one. I put the brush with a drop of detergent in my palm, push the brush against my palm and swirl it around. If the foams come out with color, I'll do it again until I got the white foams. I have yet to throw away any brush. Some may have colors at ferrule area but it never goes bad. Simple but it works. (This was a secret passed on to me by someone sometime ago).
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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time--Voltaire
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SunsetSue
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| 10/14/2007 4:25 AM |
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| I use a stiff brush to remove as much paint as possible then soak the brush in rubbing alcohol, sometimes overnight, depending on the depth of the problem. Then use a stiff brush on the bristles or hairs again. Follow with a wash in dish soap or shampoo. Then follow with a rinse in conditioner (the kind you use for your hair), this restores the hairs after the harshness of the alcohol. Rinse well in clear water and it is as good as new! If the hairs do not form a chisel edge anymore, dip the brush in conditioner and form the chisel, let dry, then after 24 hrs or so or your next painting session, rinse well and it should be good as new. This does not always work but I have saved many brushes this way, I have a good collection of brushes that I have had for may years, and most of them look like new. This has saved many brushes that were "borrowed" by the children or grandchildren over the years as well as ones left while I went to answer the phone or got distracted by a chore. |
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eerkes
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| 10/16/2007 6:41 PM |
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| There is a product that is sold at most art stores called, "pink soap". It is pretty easy to recognize. it's pink obviously, and alos has the "mona lisa" on the label. If you soak it in pink soap over night it should just come right out. I have even used it on oil paint and it took it right out as well. I know you can get it online as well if they don't sell it at your local art store. |
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Cate
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| 10/24/2007 1:25 PM |
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| I also use rubbing alcohol to get dried paint out of brushes. If you soak it, like SunsetSue says, overnight it comes clean in the morning. It is also great for cleaning your palette if you have dried paint in the cups. You can get 99% alcohol from the pharmacy and it will work better and faster since it is stronger. I have saved many a brush by using it and, as long as you condition them afterwards, they seem to be as good as new. |
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