There are a lot of problems with oil painting, one of the most common is probably how to clean the brush.
1. For pens that are often used:
For example, today’s painting is not finished, tomorrow will continue.
First, wipe the excess paint off the pen with a clean paper towel.
Then hover the pen in turpentine and soak until you’re ready to use it. Take the pen out and shake or dry the turpentine.
Hover:
It is necessary to cooperate with the pen washing container, and the pen holder is clamped in the spring-like place above. The pen hair should not touch the wall and bottom of the barrel to avoid deformation.
This method is used to keep the bristles wet and avoid pigment consolidation and damage to the bristles. Therefore, it is doomed to be not clean. Please remember the corresponding tone of each pen when using it next time to avoid the dirty mixed color caused by residual pigment of the bristles.
2. For pens that are not used for a long time or need to be thoroughly cleaned:
For example, this painting is painted here, and it needs to wait until it is completely dry, and then cover dyeing, which takes about a month. What about the pen? Or, this is the layer of the painting, this pen is now done, and I’m going to wash it thoroughly and then dry it for preservation or other purposes, what do I do?
As recommended, wipe excess paint with a clean paper towel, then wash it once with turpentine, remove and wipe clean
Wash with turpentine a second time, remove and wipe clean. Until the turpentine does not change color during washing and the cloth or paper towel used to wipe the pen does not change color.
Then need professional washing soap, use more hot hot (not boiling, hand touch will feel very hot) in white porcelain sink, pen inside rinse rinse, take out, under the soap to wash the pen surface to pull a few dipped in soap, and then gently take a launching and friction on the white porcelain, pay attention to the press to hold the pen, Leave the bristles fully extended in a pancake shape (do you feel like you’re ruining the pen? But if you don’t wash the paint well and it solidifies,) you’ll find that there’s some foam that’s colored. Then rinse rinse pen, rinse when the pen with water to wash the pool wall of the foam wipe down, and then dipped in soap friction, repeated operation, until the foam appears white, no pigment color, and then fully rinse clean soap foam, take out the wall, with a clean sanitary paper roll pen, dry it is ok.
Be sure to use professional pen soap:
Be sure to use professional pen soap, do not use casual soap, bad for hair. Because pen hair can also be understood as the hair of other animals, just like people, it also needs to be well maintained, and pen soap is equivalent to shampoo in one. Da Vinci’s pen soap is recommended. It is cheap and effective, about ¥40.
Lightly rolled paper:
When you roll it up, gently wrap it up, not tightly wrap it around your feet. When you open it again, you’ll find that your fur is all rolled up like a Longinus gun.
The result is a pen that looks as good as new after washing, with extremely smooth bristles while maintaining its original color.
Post time: Nov-11-2021