Watercolor Brush Care - yes you can restore an old, beat up, brush.

 

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Art Lessons by Captain Watercolor

This is a lesson on caring for your brushes. A heavily used brush has a lifetime measured in months or years. Nevertheless it it possible to make them last decades.

 

Are your brushes all bent out of shape? Well they don't have to be that way, and neither do you.

 

Do you ever lose your brushes on field trips? Not any more.

 

Does your brush ever lose its head. We can fix that.

 

Have your brushes lost their shape? Get that shapeless old brush back into a bikini.

 

Learn How.

 

 

Watercolor palette showing a warm and cool paint for each of the primary colorsThis is a map of the captains color
palette.
See materials list below.

PAINTS

........( sedimentary )

0 - Red

1 - Yellow

2 - Green

3 - Blue

.......( non sedimentary )

4 - Cool Blue

5 - Warm Blue

6 - Warm Red

7 - Cool Red

8 - Warm Yellow

9 - Cool Yellow


PAPER
BRUSHES


For an explanation of the properties of the paints, ( Like warm and cool ) see the lesson on paints in the materials section.

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