Drying Brushes

I thought I was being clever using old unpaired socks to dry my brushes while I was painting but found that they just got wet too quickly and didn’t do their job.

So I’ve borrowed an idea (I think it was from Zoltan Szabo but I’m not sure – I’ll update this post if and when I ever find out) and stuffed one of those socks with toilet paper and rolled it up.  It’s doing a good job so far.

One other thing I’m doing is keeping the rolled up sock in this piece of packaging that came with the new laminator the other day.  It keeps the sock still, keeps the table underneath it dry, can be used as a support to lean the paper against, can hold drying brushes in a vertical position when you punch holes for them and can be kept on the shelf with the sock in it.  Using that packaging was my idea.