If, like me, you paint with oil, it is you surely already happened to forget to wash
your brushes at the end of a day.
Are these brushes just good for the trash, or there is way to recover them?
Hi me it's Fanny Duhaime, I'm an artist painter, and today I'm taking you into
my workshop to show you a little trick which will be very convenient for you.
If you paint with oil, it must happen to you sometimes forget to wash your brushes and
to find them with a good layer of dry paint on it and you surely tell yourself
that these brushes are just good to throw and that there is nothing to do with them to recover them.
Well today I'm going to simplify you life by showing you a pretty simple trick
which will allow you to recover those brushes.
Of course the ideal is really wash your brushes at the end of each day
when you finish working.
It helps to keep them really better only when they are recovered.
To demonstrate, I took this brush that I just forgot
to wash.
As you can see there is still a little bit of painting coming out, but it's very exfoliating
and rigid.
At this point, if I just wash it with a normal solvent it will stay small
lumps in the hairs and then my features will not be as beautiful and as accurate
only when it is clean.
So to clean it up, the first step, we take a container and this product, Turpenoid
Natural, I do not know if I say it well, surely not.
It's a really powerful solvent than the traditional solvent that you have.
That's really what will help you give back the original appearance to your brush.
It must be done in an airy place because that it feels really strong.
So I put some in my container, you do not need to put a lot of
way I get it back in another containing when I finished.
What I'm going to do is, I make sure that the hairs of my brush are well soaked.
There, since he just dried me for one night it was not so dry and
so rigid as that.
I would not need to let it soak long time.
But even if your brush to you is really hard, hard, hard, and it's more than two
or three days you've forgotten it there is a way to recover it.
At that moment it's just the time that you let it soak that will lie down.
So me here I'll leave it pretty much about ten minutes, but that could
go up to an hour to wait until it really does work and then if after
an hour you clean up and there is still paint on it, you clean it from
better than you can and you put it back in the product and you soak a
other time.
So we'll wait a ten minutes.
Always take care to close the container because the smell is spreading fast enough
and she is not too nice.
So after waiting the number of times it takes, we come here really rub it
the best we can.
We try not to go anywhere to avoid damaging the hair.
So I see that by cleaning it, my brush leaves no more traces of brown, which wants
to say that I have no more paint left took in the hair.
So there's just a little left, we'll do it again just to be certain.
There you go.
So there's no painting left in the brush.
Before you can use it, you have to stop the effect of the product, so for that what we
will do is we will go clean our brush with mild soap and water.
Once our brush has been cleaned with mild soap and water, there is one thing
more we can do to help him get back its original form.
I always keep a container to wear and what's inside is all
simply vegetable oil.
So I'm just soaking my brush in and with my fingers I come to give
the flattened shape of the brush.
What it does is that the hairs that had tendency to leave to the outside, I
put right back.
It's a little trick that can help extend the life of your brushes because we're going to
to say, it's not too long that our brushes become quite damaged, which means that
can come to throw a lot more often of brushes that we would have to do if we maintained
well the brushes.
So I hope with these little things, it will prolong the life of yours.
So now, now you know what to do when you forget to wash your brushes at
oil instead of having to throw them at each time.
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