I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

I use the brush soap from greenstuff world. I bought it from the OTT store last time I made a purchase. It seems to be helping to preserve the brush tips. Needs to be used for a few more months to be certain it has helped.

@panzerkaput – I’ve a W&N Series 7 that’s a couple of years old that I mainly use for eyes and little else. I have a couple of orange-tipped Citadel standard brushes that have just reached the point where they’re only good for base coating (so who knows how old they are?!). My “workhorse” brushes are Pro Arte Renaissance (green handle) sable…[Read more]

@ninjilly  don’t let @lloyd see that stack… 😉

@ninjilly or it is more telling of how easily replaceable and unknown those people were.
The top level leadership/design team would have made headlines if they had been touched.
Anyone below that is just a grunt and can/will be replaced if management sees fit.

It also depends on how big famous/known they were within the community.
Was he just…[Read more]

@captainventanus we as outsiders can’t see what is going on inside the company.
They might be planning a new website … and all they need is to have the stars in alignment so they can unleash it upon the world.

New management also has a tendency to want to change things just so they can say that they did stuff.
It doesn’t matter how trivial or…[Read more]

never be ashamed of your inner child

no sane person can ever be an adult 24/7

I’ve just replaced a series 7 I bought in 2015

The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver

Same here!
And a Raphael or a Windsor&Newton can last up from one year and a half to two years and a half with it…

Thanks for your help and @blinky465 you employ no brush care at all beside licking. Hope long on average to your brushes last?