Washing a brush seems simple enough:
Step 1. Get the paint out
Step 2. Congratulate yourself on your success.
Obvious, no? I was years out of art school, and I had ruined several hundreds of dollars of brushes before I learned how to properly care for my tools. Below are two simple videos on brush care. The first is by Will Kemp, specially for acrylic painters. The second is by Marco Cutrone, has a pleasant guitar accompaniment, and is for acrylic and oil.
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[image_with_animation image_url=”8549″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Several years ago I took a few Chinese Ink painting classes from Kiki MacInnis and Bang Jin Sun at Pratt. I learned about several styles of traditional and contemporary ink painting, none of which I can remember well enough to name at the moment (sound of shuffling through old …
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How to Wash a Brush
Washing a brush seems simple enough:
Step 1. Get the paint out
Step 2. Congratulate yourself on your success.
Obvious, no? I was years out of art school, and I had ruined several hundreds of dollars of brushes before I learned how to properly care for my tools. Below are two simple videos on brush care. The first is by Will Kemp, specially for acrylic painters. The second is by Marco Cutrone, has a pleasant guitar accompaniment, and is for acrylic and oil.
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