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Care For Your Acrylic Brushes And Paint Tips

Acrylic dries quickly, so rinse your brushes often while you are working on a painting. When you are finished painting wash your brushes with soap and water. Lay your brushes flat for drying. Standing a brush on its bristles will cause the hairs to bend at strange angles. Standing a brush on its handle will cause water to leak down into the ferrule, loosening the glue that holds the bristles together.

Note: the ferrule is the metal part of the brush that holds the bristles.


Paint tips: Acrylic paint drys darker then it looks when it's wet. It shrinks a third in volume as it dries.
You can thin acrylic paint with water or an acrylic medium. Thinning it with lots of water and applying it to watercolor paper will give you the effect of a watercolor painting.

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