How do most of you clean your brushes while you are painting and moving from one color to another?
Even though I paint alla prima, sometimes I don't want one color to wash into another so I want fairly clean brush for the next stroke.
Just have a lot of brushes for a single color?
I know I am going to get a lot of push back on this, but, I have taken to swishing the brush in turpenoid and then cleaning the brush with a cloth to get a clean brush.
What do you guys do/ recommend?
David
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And a set for mid tones.
the mid tones I wipe if I change color. If I really want to clean it I just use a little of the oil medium.
I tend to focus on one colour group at a time, for example, Do the sky and water reflection with a set of five or six brushes. Immersion by suspension in brush dip between values, pre and post towel off excess pigment and walnut oil. Moving on to trees means a thorough but gentle agitation on a nylon pot scourer in the walnut brush dip for the brush set, then towel off. Each subsequent element of the painting involves the same procedure.
Denis