Got the limp brush woes?

I use "The Master's Brush Cleaner" which is a hard cake soap that you rub the paintbrush on after wetting it. You can leave the dried soap on the bristles to keep their shape and then just clean it off before painting.
This is great stuff!

Mike

Yeah, that stuff is awesome I use that to clean my brushes when nothing else seems to get the paint out and I don't want to risk using something that may hurt the bristles. It even seems to be good to recondition old brushes that I thought couldn't be recovered.

The thing I like about the Gum Arabic is that it makes the brushes hard again like when I bought them in addition to reshaping. I have a hard time doing fine detail with 10/0 - 0 unless they have a bit of stiffness to them.

~ Garth

Head out to Harbor freight and pick up a $29 ultra sonic cleaner works great for acrylics and good for enamels after they have been cleaned in thinner. and to tell the truth when my brushes are cleaned and ready to put away I just stick em in my mouth and just twist and pull! works every time and I have not replaced a fine tip brush in 10 years.

Mike

Grummbacher makes much the same thing, marketing it as Grummbacher's Brush Soap. Works great and I figure the 1 pint jar I bought several years ago for 5 bucks at an artist's supply store will last me a good 20 years. I recommend it as a good investment given the price of a good paint brush these days.

i usually dip it in diluted glue and it seems to work for me