one person to get asked all the time that I've never seen anybody really address on YouTube is
how do you clean your paint brushes when you're working on a painting in this is actually
a really important question so in this video allow me to answer I'm going to show you three
ways that I clean my paint brushes while painting and I'm going to show
you why it matters so that way you can see if it's best for you so let's get started
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can't believe I nailed it on the first take getting better at this when it comes to
cleaning my brushes while painting I use three different techniques or strategies if you will
number one is tapping my brush on my mixing palette when I tap my brush off on my mixing
palette it's not really cleaning my brushes more as it is redistributing the paint across my brush
evenly which means the paint thats on the canvas maybe pooled up or concentrated in one spot
not really appealing for what I'm trying to do what I like to do is take my brush
back to my how to clean spot and kind of tap it in so everything gets even across
the brush that when I go back to my canvas I can redistribute the paint and proper ways
I generally uses for when I have to make shapes or lay my land for my Foundation of my landscape
but I also like to use this technique a lot when I have to make hills and grassy Knolls look more
smooth or less detailed in the background so that way everything just looks a little blurry
but smooth overall so it's not pulling too much attention across then like we said if you have too
much paint in one part under canvas top on that particular section and go you're mixing palette
that's in a clean spot and tap in there so that way it evens out in some of that paint will remain
on the mixing palette allowing you to go back and redistribute the correct amount of paint so
this way you're not going to have a huge Globs of paint wipe off method and you don't see
this when I'm doing my painting so it's hard as because it's below my canvas and below my easel
is paper towels or bungee cord from leg to legs and when I'm painting generally my sky or clouds or
anything like trees where I put layers on top of layers where i get a lot of paint on top of paint
which leads to contamination which then leads to dull colors with a lot of you hate or mud mixing I
will take my paintbrush and I will go across the paper towels and I will wipe off all the excess
or contaminated paint so that way when I go back to my mixing palette I have pretty much a clean
brush that way I get rich colors to reapply back on top of my canvas and like I said this is a
powerful technique for when you have to make Cloud cuz it contaminates with that blue leading to dull
colors or when you have to put highlights on top of trees or bushes because again you're not going
to change the color consistency and you're not going to really dull out those highlight
very simple to do put your pain on if it gets contaminated wiper cross the paper towels
reload your brush and go back at it very quick and fast way to make sure your colors will stay true
Bob Ross technique where I use the beater rack when my paint brushes to
loaded or too contaminated or at the switch colors from light to dark or dark
to light I will take my paintbrush put it in odorless thinner make sure it gets a nice
mm of that run it across the can then take it to my waist in which has my beater rack inside of it
and the yes he'll off constantly I think the ladies knew that from their I do something a
lot of people don't do which I recommend I will take my paint brush and put it inside of a junk
tell that I bought from like a big discount store and all this kind of squeeze and pull through
and this make my make sure that my paintbrush is extra clean a lot of times when people beat off
the brush go go right back to the single sometimes get thinner on top of your canvas which can lead
to pooling Orton leads a week paint adhesion sore if you have too much you'll see it actually
get yourself like a basic jumped out which I just hang right here off the base of my easel
and I literally just put the brush on your rub it in or I'll put it in here and squeeze
the paint brush through and now I know I have a completely clean brush I mean look at my towel
here it looks like some kind of Jackson Pollock painting I'm so creative no one understands my off
when I'm painting those are the three techniques I use to clean my brushes and work fantastic for
me and now you know why I clean my brushes in that way which is going to be powerful for you
so that way you can see if that'll work for you and your painting process now that's not
I also few more steps after I'm done cleaning my brushes for when I completed painting for the day
or completed a painting overall which I recommend you do if you're going to paint the next day
or in a couple days I really recommend using the master brush cleaner which is going to really pull
all the rest of that pigment in Paint & Binder out of your brushes and condition it slowly for the
next time you're going to paint if you don't think you're going to paint for a long amount of time
a couple of days like long days weeks or even months I would recommend using a soap conditioner
that way gets really deep inside the bristles conditions it and make sure it leaves a little
bit of that conditioner on the breast of that way it'll stay soft and it won't be brittle so
that way your paint brushes will last you a long time the two products I'm going to recommend I've
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recommend I hope this painting was helpful to you if I get this question all the time I promise
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