You're Wasting Your Time Cleaning Brushes // Non Toxic Oil Painting

You're wasting your time cleaning your brushes every time you paint! In this video, I'll show you how to paint with without ever having to clean your brushes again!

By using this non-toxic method, you'll never have to worry about cleaning your brushes. You'll be able to paint with ease without any risk of ruining your painting. Plus, you will save a ton of time! So ditch the solvents and try out this easy, non-toxic method to keep you painting longer!

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[brandtsquires]

I have just recently changed from acrylics to oils and honestly the cleaning of the brushes part of the process, had almost put me off as I was doing it every day. Knowing I can just leave them in a store bought cooking oil overnight/weeks is a great news. I will be checking the supermarket shelves for the specific types you mentioned, thanks for the tip 👍

[joyfulsuul]

This is getting me excited to paint again. It’s always a mental struggle trying to keep my brushes in shape. Thank you for the tip

[sionedsart]

I use a cheap painters and decorator’s tray as it lays brushes flat and have plenty of space for all brushes.. Also, used food containers cut slightly on one edge so angle of brush lays flat.. Thanks for your great videos ❤

[jasonanthonywilper]

Great video, just finished cleaning my brushes

[charlainventado]

Thank you so much! I'm applying your techniques of solvent free painting. Helps me a lot as a beginner :D <3

[arturhakobyan]

Sunflower oil is also works. In my place it is the only option. The price is 2$ for 1 litre which is excelinte!

[matthewcondon]

Love it!!! I’m looking forward to seeing you do some oil painting!

[walic]

Thank you, I'm so glad i came across this video last year.
How do i dispose of the old dirty oil?

[JimsteinPaintArt]

Rapeseed oil and Olive oil are also semi-drying oils so they should also work well for soaking your brushes. Information was very intersting, Thanks!

[MikeBothroyd]

Hi. I tried soaking my brushes in supermarket purchased safflower oil however noticed that even after washing with soap & warm water they were STILL very oily. Was concerned about it mixing with my regular painting oils so stopped using this method. Great vid tho 👍

[NarsilRenewed]

One note on clove oil: I made that mistake and won't ever repeat it. I added just a few drops of love oil to my linseed or rapeseed painting oil (I use one for just volume-rinsing and keeping my brushes in inbetween painting and the linseed one for painting), and then must not have squeezed the brush out well enough before dipping it into paint… The result is a painting that has now taken more than 1.5 years (!) just to get - not even dry to the touch, but only finally starting to get somewhat tacky, from completely wet and liquid. I would venture a guess it will be another year or two for it to get actually dry to the touch.

[huntsail]

Enjoyed this, subscribed. Looking forward to seeing your other videos.

[pau]

If I have a sunflower seed oil bath of 1/2 cup, how many drops of clove oil would I need to add?

[rodeastell]

Excellent video thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[wolfsonn]

I always fall over when I hear things about health issues regarding oil painting - maybe we should start talking about life itself and what people will do to themselves without the oil painting stuff - If you are a smoker, if you drink too much alcohol, eat too much sugar, eat too much unhealthy food, drive too fast, live in a toxic environment - why would you care about what you are doing with your oil paint

[ExplorewithSarahlouise]

I made mistakes early on with turps I’m correcting now any tips on getting it out your system?

[seaborn]

Thank you for the tip! I've just done some research on this topic, and found that safflower kitchen oil is slightly chemically different than artist safflower oil, because that one (the kitchen oil) is much higher in oleic acid, that makes it almost non-drying. Do you have any info on that? I really would like to try this method but am afraid to ruin my paintings by introducing non-drying agents.

[themysteriousdomainmoviepalace]

So you have to leave the brushes soaking for months?

[kablouielouie]

Hi Chris, thanks for the video, all of your videos in fact. You mention you use both animal hair and synthetic brushes. I'm about to buy some synthetic brushes for specific uses and I'm curious to know whether it's okay to soak them in oil as I've been doing with my hog hair brushes. Thanks.

[HarryDK]

i have plenty of linseed oil around, can it replace the safflower oil? Should I use raw linseed oil or boiled? cheers