Mind over matter, or no more brush-licking

[airhead]

SteelCult, please for the good of your paints, brushes and minis, use drinkable water for painting.

 

[Aragorns_mate]

licky licky licky

licking brushes rocks! also chewing the end of the handel, afta a session painting i carry my brush around in my mouth sucking and chewing for a few hours afterwards, i dont know why but its very comforting

you cant get a point withough a good lick and yes! GW paints taste well nice

yum yum

 

[LouisCypher]

Hi, my name is Luca...

... I live on the second floor... Oh no, that\'s a song

... and i\'m a brush licker with no intention of stopping it... and some colors have such a good taste! (some are unbearable, though)

Luca

 

[sniffles]

I\'m with Mosch. I have never licked my brushes nor had any desire to. I wipe them on a paper towel.

And I\'ve found that for me, synthetics and naturals both lose their points equally quickly, usually after about 3 months of use. I don\'t paint armies, though, so they probably go faster when you do that.

I have a friend whose lips are always black from licking his brush.

 

[vincegamer]

Originally posted by Astonia

I hear ya! (is this a swedish habit? )

I don\'t think the Swedes can lay claim to that. I have never been to Sweden and I do it too. In fact sometimes I use my left thumbnail as a pallette on which I mix paint colors.

(I did have a Swedish housemate once - he used to complain that Americans thought all Swedes were tall blondes while he was average height olive-skinned brunette - but I don\'t think this has anything to do with painting )

 

[vincegamer]

Originally posted by minimaker

By the way, why was it again that ordinary soap can damage brushes? There was something about it dissolving something in organic hairs or so. Fat?

Natural brushes are animal hair. Washing your hair (or skin) with regular soap will strip away the oils and make it brittle (oil and water don\'t mix, but both bond to soap, which is why soapy water works) if you do it a lot.
That said, I wonder if brush cleaner would make a good shampoo.???

 

[Zora]

Originally posted by SJB
Weird, I\'ve never been a brush licker. Always blotted with Kitchen paper instead.

That said I lick my sculpting tools. And that\'s worse lol

Steve B

No, Steve...it\'s the WAY you lick the sculpting tools!lol

\"SLLRRRPP! Heheh heheh heheh, (insert evil cackle here)\"

 

[Dragonsreach]

Am I missing something here?
Are you all saying that you lick your brushes with paint on them?
Cos I lick/suck the points back onto my brushes after I\'ve rinsed them.

Or am I in a weird sub-category all of my own?

(Tammy, no need to answer that one....... )

 

[minimaker]

Origineel geplaatst door vincegamer
That said, I wonder if brush cleaner would make a good shampoo.???

Or as interesting, would a good shampoo be suited as a brush cleaner?

 

[Dragonsreach]

@minimaker: Yes as long as it\'s got a built in conditioner. Timotea etc...

 

[frenchkid]

Don\'t worry dragonsreach you\'re not alone !! I rince my brushes before liking them back to shape, but by rising I mean that I just shake it in the pot of water wich takes most of the paint of but not all of it And if wenether I feel like trying to blend ( and failing miserably) I just skip the rincing part to go faster

 

[Mollo]

Originally posted by airhead
After I quit, I chewed the handles off of several brushes. I now wonder if they use non-toxic paint on paint brush handles?

i don\'t know about the paint on the handle, but the lacquer coating is probably far worse for you...

 

[ipaintminis]

no i wash my paint off, but sometimes when im thinking about colors and such, or just daydreaming, the paintbrush hits the lips, and sometimes, its still full of paint.


....yes i know, im strange....lol

 

[BloodiedFangs]

Originally posted by frenchkid
but by rising I mean that I just shake it in the pot of water wich takes most of the paint of but not all of it

heh, i have 2 pots: one to get most of the crud out, the other for a final rinse (also serves as my clean water jar...if its not too dirty). guess this gets rid of some of the gross-out factor

 

[Aryanun]

I\'m a brush licker and still think Reaper should add flavors to their new line of Master paints (due out in November). That was my very first suggestion to them. lol

 

[Mollo]

Originally posted by Aryanun
Reaper should add flavors to their new line of Master paints

oh wow, we can have a field day with possible name/colour/flavour combinations
like Minty Orc Green, or Blood Ketchup Red...

mmm...Sour Cream and Onion Bubonic Brown

 

[Nelson]

Ooh, I\'ve got one!

How \'bout \"Dessert Yellow\"?
Eheheh.....eheh....heh......heh.
Yeah, I thought that one up myself.

And back on topic, I think Vallejos have the best flavour ever. They have a wonderful lime/citrus taste and smell.

 

[EricJ]

I licked brushes until one day I noticed my cat drinking the paint water as I was licking the excess water off my brush, so I stopped...

...then I started agian...about 5 minutes later

 

[Padawan716]

Hmmm, I always rinse and dry my brush before licking it....

 

[Margo]

Let me get this straight: now we\'re discussing which paints taste better?