How to Clean and Store Artist's Oil Brushes With Baby Oil
Use paper towel to squeeze most of the fresh oil paint out of the brush with a ferrule to tip pinching action., Place a 1/4 oz of baby oil in a shallow plastic container, dip the brush to coat it., Remove the baby oil out of the brush using a piece...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Use paper towel to squeeze most of the fresh oil paint out of the brush with a ferrule to tip pinching action.
This will not work for already dried in oil paint. -
Step 2: Place a 1/4 oz of baby oil in a shallow plastic container
Do not swish it around in the baby oil, as this will cloud up the oil and you will not know when your brush is really clean. , Repeat dipping and pinching action, until brush no longer leaves paint residue in the paper towel and is wiping out clean. , -
Step 3: dip the brush to coat it.
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Step 4: Remove the baby oil out of the brush using a piece of clean paper towel
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Step 5: with a squeezing ferrule to tip pinching action.
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Step 6: The baby oil left in the synthetic and natural hair brushes prevents any residual oil paint left in the brushes from drying
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Step 7: no matter how long you leave it between paintings
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Step 8: and also conditions your brushes
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Step 9: your hands
Detailed Guide
This will not work for already dried in oil paint.
Do not swish it around in the baby oil, as this will cloud up the oil and you will not know when your brush is really clean. , Repeat dipping and pinching action, until brush no longer leaves paint residue in the paper towel and is wiping out clean. ,
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