As the headline says; how do you clean your brushes? I clean mine with thinner (!!!). It is a waste of money but I haven't got anything else

I have some sort of cheap thinner as well... After that I like to wash my brushes with soap and water always making a perfect tip afterwards. I have used some brushes for a long time, so I guess this treatment suits them.

Mario M.

i use sentetic thinner,is there any other or cheaper way?

I use a brush cleaner I get from the art store.....comes in a plastic, shallow, screw top container...the top says this:
"The Masters" BRUSH CLEANER and PRESERVER.....Original B&J Specially Prepapared Oil, Watercolour, Acrylic....Will Clean Hard Oil Paint Brushes.....KEEPS BRUSHES LIKE NEW.
I got a 1/2 can of it once from a retired Admiral who was giving me all of his model stuff....he couldn't see well enough anymore to do them....in the stuff was also a lot of paint brushes that weren't cleaned properly and were all hard and had been that way for at least a few years.....I used this stuff on them....and I had some very nice brushes after a little bit of work....it worked wonders even on brushes I thought were clean.
Before this I used to steal the small soaps from hotels and use these to wash out my brushes.....after finding this product I'll never do that again.....it's a little expensive.....$11 Cdn for 2 1/2 oz. but it lasts a long time and takes good care of your brushes....i find it well worth it.

like dioman i use a brush cleaner i dip it in the cleaner and rinse it on a tissue.

I rinse my brushes frequently when I'm brush painting with whatever thinner is appropriate for the paint. But when I go to wash the paint, I use Turpenoid Natural. It comes in a green bottle. It's supposed to help condition the brush as well and is non-toxic. Originally I bought it for washes, but it was obviously the wrong Turpenoid when I opened it at home.

Hows this - It Depends, on... paint, the next color I'm going to use, when the next color I'm going to paint is.

If I am doing a lot of shade of a wash I'll simply rinse and dry my brush with water (using tamiya paints) or thinner (with testors). If I am going to use a darker color next I'll clean pretty well trying to get the pigment out, but not being so concerned. If I am going lighter then I get a bit OC and get all the pigment out with water then go to thinner also and get the brush very clean. If I won't be painting within the next 24 hours I'll go straight to thinner and clean it very well.
It depends on what I use the brush for too. I've got about 20 brushes (from really dirt cheap to nice ones). The cheaper the brush the harsher the use (ie dirty dry brushing at weathering stages) to gentle nice wonderful treatment to the WN brushes that cost a mint.