Hi fam!!! Someone has shared with me a super easy way to clean your permanently dirty clear palette & brushes. They will look brand new afterwards. Use "Easy-Off", the oven spray cleaner. Leave it on your palette for about 5 minutes and wipe/scape off the "Easy-Off". I always use paint thinner to clean it thoroughly. That's when the magic happens. ✨

For your paint brushes, follow the same steps as above. Then twist and press the brush into a little container with some "easy-off" in it and you will see all the goo coming out. I restored ALL my brushes this way. It will do an outstanding work for your split script liner brushes. All of them came back brand new with their original bristle color!!! 🎉 Once done with the goo removal, remove most of the "easy-off" with a paper towel and clean your brushes in clean paint thinner and let dry.

Hope this is useful and helping you out to save many of your brushes. 😃

This sounds wonderful and I will try it. Did you use on any synthetic brushes or only natural hair?

I now use disposables although tearing it off and throwing it in the bin is a real pain! 😁😁

NTZArt thanks N, I will give it a shot! I actually wipe my palette down with thinner and then use an electric palm sander on it and wipe it down again right now.

    I tried this on a handful of brushes and it really was like magic. I am very bad about brush care and this trick is going to be great for me! Will definitely be cleaning the rest of my brushes using this method. Thank you!

    Cronenberg89 Pleasure B! I used thinner before and a window blade scrapper, but I could never get rid of some of the greenish film that was forming over time & getting worse. With the oven cleaner, it's a breeze. I still use my window blade scrapper to remove the goo and some of the toughest spots on my palette. It's amazing to revive everything so easily!

      dracula Real pleasure to be able to help! Even when being thoroughly with my brush cleaning, I eventually get bad brushes. But this oven cleaner trick works better than anything out there for brushes & palettes!

          2 months later

          For the sake of thoroughness, I tested the boundaries of this method and found that going much over the recommended 5 minutes starts to polymerize, curl, and degrade the bristles, particularly on natural hair brushes. Just mentioning it here to recommend care and caution when using this method. If you follow the wonderfully detailed instructions provided by @NTZArt you'll have great results! Just try not to overdo.

          4 months later

          I tired this tonight. It worked great on my Bob Ross brushes but may have ruined the one Paint with Bram brushes I tried. It definitely came clean but seems to have lost much of its stiffness. I’ll see if it is better once it dries.

          I did add one step. After I rinsed the brushes in clean thinner I then cleaned them with The Masres brush cleaner and restorer. It actually got a little more color out of brushes that seemed clean.

          I will do the rest of my Bob Ross brushes tomorrow.

          Thanks for the great tip.

            12 days later

            Like Drac said, It’s important to use the oven cleaner in small quantity and for just a short time for natural paint brushes. I don’t use the “max strength” one, the regular easy-off only. For small brushes, I spray some in a little container and dip quickly the brush into it and use a paper towel to remove it after few seconds. For bigger brushes, I spray a paper towel and clean my natural paint brushes that way. I always finish the job by cleaning all my brushes in my paint thinner to remove as much as what is left on the bristles so they don’t curl up.

              2 months later

              Great tips, thanks, Nancy! For the "small container," a plastic snack baggie works well; it allows easy access to massage problem areas, e.g., the heel of a liner brush (where the bristles disappear into the ferrule).

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