Who needed this reminder?! 🗯️

I thought I’d re-share my most viral video from 2021. I can’t believe there was a time before I realized that I could continuely recycle/reuse the solvent in my oil painting jar - but there was & I wasted so much! So I’m just out here spreading the word once again for any oil painters who havn’t yet learned this.

When you leave the jar of mineral spirit/turps/gamsol (whatever you use to clean your brushes) overnight the oil & solvent seperate. The oil paint sludge will settle at the bottom (you can actually use that to make new paint which I’ve talked about in old videos) & you can just pour the clean solvent out from on top into a new jar. 🫗🫙✨

The only real solvent thief is evaporation 💨 so that’s one of the reasons to always have an airtight lid on your jar & use a slower evaporating mineral spirit like Gamsol. (The other good reason to keep a lid on it is so you don’t breathe it in.