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Alex C:
Yeah, I'm afraid it's just kind of a pain and there's really no answer but dilligence, especially with flat brushes, since you can really load up even the little flats with a ridiculous amount of paint. Like Linds said though, soap works fine, and I keep bars of lava soap around since it's mildly gritty and great for cleaning up your hands and your palette (if you really bother with cleaning the palette super thoroughly each time; I'm kind of a neat freak), although for the brushes I rather doubt it matters too much what soap you use if you're using synthetics (I love synthetics, personally). You really don't want to leave your brushes in standing water either or using heat to dry them, by the way; if you really want to make brushes last you'll have to get used to rinsing them fairly often as you work to keep the paint farther up the farrules from drying in as you work with the wet stuff near the tip. You'll probably also want a simple dollar store mister bottle to keep the point on your palette moist as you work too, if you don't already have one.
blaha 41:
Why has no one mentioned water-soluble oil paints? No matter how good I got as a painter I could not find a way to deal with acrylics... everything seemed so flat.
Lines:
I have never used them and don't really plan to. (I rarely paint as it is.) Besides, there are a lot of mediums for acrylic paint that can be used to acheive the same effects as oils.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Mazlow01 on 20 Feb 2008, 08:19 ---Any ideas on how to best accomplish this?
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Try not being so anally retentive.
Alex C:
I hate oils, but I'll admit they are a bit easier to blend once you've got the paint on the canvas. I still prefer to make up for that by using acrylics with extenders and by adding lots and lots of layers and simply trying harder to come up with the right mix of colors on the palette in the first place though. Oils are simply too fussy and take too long to dry for me.
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