How Do You Make A Container For Rinsing Oil/Acrylic Paint Brushes?
How to Make a Container for Rinsing Oil/Acrylic Paint Brushes A helpful painting tip from a fellow artist. From Jim Meaders For oil painting I find small glass storage jars with hinged lids and a rubber seal (as in the photo below) at yard sales or discount stores. In the bottom I place a ‘screen’ to scrub the oil paint out of the brushes. I have used several things for a ‘screen’: small mesh metal gutter guard cut into squares and tucked under to make hemispherical forms; metal window screen cut into squares and tucked and rolled into hemispherical forms; and my favorite, old kitchen strainers with the metal strainer part cut out and placed in the bottom of the jar. This container allows waste oil paint to sink out of the solvent, to settle at the bottom below the mesh, out of reach of the brush you’re rinsing clean. For acrylic painting I save and ask others to save one gallon plastic milk or juice bottles.
