Resurrecting brushes

Once upon a time I got through so many brushes! I'd be buying about 3 a week in peak painting times. Acrylic is just a killer of brushes: it works up the bristles and dries in there forcing them apart. Metalics are even worse.
Bearing in mind you need all your disposable income to spend on your plastic crack, this was a serious drag.

In steps my lady. Hero of the scrapbook. Scion of the craft shop owner. Brainbox of ink and paper.

Her technique for resurrecting brushes is the business.

Obviously the best thing is to clean them regularly, but if you are on a big project, the paint is drying in there as you paint. I'm on a Deff Dread right now and I might be using one colour for 30 minutes.

Washing up liquid at the end of every session of painting is also good. Even if the paint is dry, its not totally dry,and the washing up liquid breaks up nearly all of it. But eventually your brush will succumb to that "bad hair day" look, at which point I used to bin them. But my Kate showed me the true path: boiling water.

It sounds brutal but it works. When the brush will no longer hold a point, clean it first as best you can with the washing up liquid, but then boil the kettle and rinse the brush out with freshly boiling water. Then shape it back to a point and let it dry and it is very nearly good as new.