How to Clean and Recondition your Paint Brushes. Paintbrush Restoration for Acrylic Paint.

How to do a hard-reset and get very dirty brushes usable again! In this video I look at both natural sable hair brushes and synthetic golden taklon brushes. Get the dry paint out and re-form the tips! In this video we use a microscope to take a closer look at the paintbrushes and at the individual bristles.

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[TheYouglup]

What on earth is that little bunny creature model with the turnip?? I desperately need to get one!

[Ryanz]

Thank god there's finally a video on this with someone with a science background and knows the subject matter. There's so little good information, and a lot of dubious marketing around brush products.

[ponli]

In 25 years of warhammer hobby, I'm embarrassed to say I never understood that cleaning the brush could actually restore the tip. Bought 99, 5% IPA, and it worked like a charm.

[Alex-vfio]

Scientific method brought to paint brushes, that's why I love this channel.

[thepoorhammerpodcast]

I thought about abusing back-channels last week just to recommend you do this exact topic. Thank you! My poor abused brushes are going to be so happy.

[mariacole]

Your video saved 51 of my brushes. B4 I came across your video I was sad but now I feel like a boss lol

[matthewroderique]

As a signwriter who uses russian sable brushes for most of my signs, use neatsfoot oil (from a saddlery shop) to keep your brushes well oiled when you re not using them, when I store mine I never know when I will need them next and its a fantastic product to stop your brushes from drying out from under use

[Wijkert]

I am all for more brush under a microscope content!

[Its_Remyy]

As an artist who spent a lot of their early years in STEM, this was *so refreshing*. So much of what are considered 'trade important products' don't actually explain the science behind them beyond marketing. Please keep doing videos like this!

[JudyFrankenbutt]

This is exactly the video I've been needing lately, after depression caused a craft hiatus where I left all my brushes unwashed and crusty for over a year. >_< And I'm so grateful it's you who made it, Goobertown! I appreciate your calm and reassuring voice so much :3

[Nigelius]

Who else loves it when Brent deep dives on a topic and really uses that chemist brain?

[josephkelly]

Once I learned you were a Phd Chemist your videos like this became instant watch. I support a bunch of really smart chemist as part of my job and you are every bit as thorough as they are. Understanding what's happening to your brush with every paint, solvent, cleaner is eye opening compared to pseudoscience "in my experience" A lot of mini painters are amazing artist without understand why X, Y, Z gives them certain results.

[carpemkarzi]

Well done. back when I was in high school I had an amazing art teacher and at the end of each semester a few of us would join him to do a deep clean of the tables and brushes. As we were using acrylics we used Isopropyl to clean and recondition them. Nice to see it validated all these years later.

[florianpal]

Brent casually answering every single question regarding the painting sode of the hobby i had the last 20 years while beeing amazingly charismatic. A pleasure to watch.

[Recca]

This could not have come at a more perfect time. I'm new to miniatures and was using basic brushes but finally ordered some better ones. So this is a godsend.

[lucasthomas]

I have used my wife's hair straightener to fix curled synthetic tips with mixed results. I figured it wasn't really worth the trouble but might be worth looking into.

[MSnell]

I honestly didn't know before you made these videos that Army Painter brushes use natural hair. I always thought they were just higher quality synthetics. I already thought that they offered a good value when looking at hobby-branded brushes, but that value and appreciation just went up even more.

[sinner]

This is soo helpful. Having been painting minis for years now I have never seen a video for a creator as large as you talking about this.
Wonderfully helpful.

[theorganicshadow]

Thanks for speaking to the effects of IPA on the bristle glue. I kept hearing people say it will dissolve it but I've never had any issues. Since everyone else is listing their routines, here's mine: immediately after a painting session I rinse everything in room temp water. Any brushes with globs of paint or paint up to the metal I hit with IPA and a cotton swab. Then all brushes go through the tan puck until they aren't leaving paint on it anymore. Only takes a few minutes each night and everything stays clean!

[goodnufpainting]

You have inspired me to clean a brush for the first time ever