Quick Question on Acrylics

[Guest]

When using acrylic paints,do you use paint thinner or water to clean brushes ? Thanks, if you couldn't guess this is my first time using them.

[Guest]

If you mean normal "turpentine" type thinners then no I wouldn't risk it, there's an acrylic thinners available.

Each to their own I suppose but I find a in good rinse in warm soapy water after use does the job.... even for my watercolour brushes which ain't cheap and need looking after big time.

There may be a reply giving the benefits of the acrylic type ... I've never used it.

[PaulTRose]

ive always used plain water........swirl the brush, wipe gently on paper kitchen paper.....do it again if needed........but then i always place it on the paper and give it a little squirt with airbrush cleaner and wipe thro..........always pays to look after brushes, good ones aint cheap

[yak face]

I use auto windshield wash fluid , undiluted , it cleans them up fine , cheers tony

[Andy2035]

I use water to thin the paint down and I use water to wash my brushes too, the only time I use thinners/brush wash etc ( cellulose thinners, not the acrylic paint thinning stuff) on my brushes is after I have use enamel paints...

So to answer your question Joep, water is just fine for washing them after acrylic paint use...

[Guest]

I use water.

If you let it dry try IPA Isopropyl Alcohol. Just learnt that trick this afternoon. Tried to remove some sticky selotape stuff from the wall using IPA. The selotape stayed fast but the unwanted removal of emulsion was a great success.

Laurie

Another. If you have Vallejo airbrush cleaner & the paint is not completly dried but near then this will do the trick.

[Gern]

but the unwanted removal of emulsion was a great success.

I've been having the same problem with some 1/72 figures. Get a touch of paint where it's not wanted and you need a grinder to shift it. Look cross-eyed at paint where it's wanted and it falls off - even after washing parts, primer, paint and Klear!

Gern