Introduction: Save Your Paintbrush in the Paint Can
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About: Tim Anderson is the author of the "Heirloom Technology" column in Make Magazine. He is co-founder of www.zcorp.com, manufacturers of "3D Printer" output devices. His detailed drawings of traditional Pacific I…
The proper way to wash a brush is first with solvent if it's an oil-based paint or varnish, then with soap or shampoo and water.
It is hair after all.
No one actually does this. In practice people wrap the brush in a plastic bag and pretend they'll clean it tomorrow. Some time later they throw it away.
Here's a better method. Just leave the brush in the paint can. It'll stay good as long as the paint does.
This is what commercial painters do with their brushes, rollers, etc.
