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.
Yesterday I posted Fran O’Neill’s studies from unidentified masterworks. In no time at all you savvy people identified three out of four. Nice work! Piero Della Francesca, Battle Between Heraclius and Chosroes Nicolas Poussin, The Abduction of the Sabine Women Diego Velázquez, The Spinners Las Hilanderas, translated to “The Spinners,” is a painting by the …
What happens when paper is treated as a raw material, instead of a flat white rectangle? The photograph to the left is one that’s been circulating on the internet lately. This is what happens when wasps are given colored construction paper. The paper is used as fibers and pulp, not ready for pencil lines to represent an …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10543″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] There is something so danged exciting about making a big piece of art. I mean, a really really big piece of art. The work to make a visual design, which is most of the art process, does not usually change much. The labor can involve some different tools, some …
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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