Liner brush malfunction

ShadowscarsDragon

Hello,

My Script Liner brush is not working well, its hairs are going in all directions, and the line tends to split while painting. Very annoying. It is done for and I need to replace it?

I used it for around 70 paintings. I always wash it in odorless mineral spirits, and even tried conditionner, but it keeps doing that.

Sunnylady

ShadowscarsDragon wow 70 paintings! It survived a long time meaning you cared well enough about it. Mine are quite cheap and go through 30 paintings or so. I degrease them with kitchen degreaser once a month since mine are synthetic and can handle the chemicals. But here and there I overestimate my capabilities to paint next day and they dry out. Then I put them in turpentine for an overnight soak. Turpentine is from builders store which I use ONLY for brush cleaning.

dracula

When my brushes get really dirty and out-of-shape, I use The Masters soap to get them back to a usable state (I also use it to wash my hands after painting, especially because I sometimes use some lead-based paints). https://www.jerrysartarama.com/masters-artist-hand-soap. I think they also make a specific brush cleaning formula, but I have not used that.

TheLandscapePainter

I use 2 of the bob ross liner brushes, one of them does this and the other one doesn't yet I have have treated them both the same, strange. The only thing I can think of that might have caused it is because I will have used one of them for acrylic underpainting and I possibly didn't clean it well enough.

ShadowscarsDragon

Curious. I never used it for anything but oil. Oh well. Maybe time to get a new one