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.
I found this video of an adult professional abstract painter playing like a kid. Not with wild abandon. This isn’t that kid. This is the really quiet thoughtful kid who didn’t hear the lunch bell because he’s finger-painting a masterpiece. He’s into it. Did you ever get all into making textures and shapes and all kinds …
This show at MoMA was brought to my attention by a League member. (Thanks Chris!) He had been there to see it and said it was impactful to see works in context not by culture, but by timeline. What was happening while Matisse painted his ladies? What was the dominant art world thinking about at the time, …
Artist Talk Nikki Barber on the Scientific Method TODAY! January 28th 2019, 5:30-7:00pm Bellevue College, Gallery Space D271 Science and art are not mutually exclusive. Both are used to explain and make sense of the world around us. Nikki uses her strong scientific background in biology and art to develop her printmaking process, and uses …
[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 …
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.
https://youtu.be/WzDnorAzWVU https://youtu.be/cnBmQmHqq5s Basic Steps:
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