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#8 - How To Keep A Paint Brush Handle Clean

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"The New York Public Library has an incredible digital collection of antique materials and prints, featuring artifacts like photographs, manuscripts, and maps. . . . One of its most amazing archives — a list of ingenious life hacks that have survived from the 1900s, once supplied in cigarette packs!"

There are sixteen of them, and I'll give you all sixteen, four at a time.

#8 - “To do away with the annoyance of a wet and sticky brush handle, which is so unpleasant to the amateur painter, get a piece of card or tin and make a hole in it through which the handle can be forced, as shown in the picture."
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Bill_I_Am

Yup!

patw

Well, yeah. Everyone know THAT tip. ;-)

dris651

Looks like a two thumbs down on this idea! That's what pockets are for, anyway. Right? ;-)

patw

Totally, agree with you, Bill. So would I.

Bill_I_Am

Oh, I was not thinking of artists. Nevertheless, I still think I would find this contraption annoying and distracting.

patw

I felt it'd be something I would constantly want to brush away (groan) with my hand. Even though it probably wouldn't, I'd have the sense it was blocking my view of what I was trying to paint. However, since latex paint wasn't around until the 1940s and acrylics until the 1950s, I can see the appeal to the amateur artist of this preventive measure against the inevitable mistake that would mean having to use turpentine to get it off your hands.

Bill_I_Am

Emphasis on "amateur painter." I would find this terribly annoying. It's easier to learn how to hold and wield a brush properly.

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