Category: Kit & Tool Maintenance

How to care for your tools and kits

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Tuesday Tips @ 10: Labeling your Paints

Happy Tuesday!!! I took a little hiatus from our Tuesday Tips at Ten there over the holidays…partly because of holiday busy-ness of gigs, hosting family & my son’s 16th birthday & driver’s exam, partly because I ran out of tips (ha!), and partly because our sweet, goofy Great Dane “Wahoo” passed away unexpectedly at just 5 years old, sucking away some of my Christmas spirit and motivation! BUT, I’m happy to say we have adopted a new fur baby (Teddy the Sheepadoodle) just in time for Christmas, all the holiday activities have died down, and I have a couple more tips in the hopper! SO, this week I bring you a tip for labeling your paints! Who doesn’t want to get their kit more organized in the new year?! Next week I’ll continue with another good tip for organizing your paints in your kit, but for now, here’s how I’ve labeled my paints in the past and currently!

Also, in case you missed it, since I’m taking a break from Wet Paint Magazine, I’ve brought back my free monthly e-newsletters! This month’s newsletter on the topic of self confidence as an artist has already gone out, but you can subscribe to future issues or download past issues here!

Here are some Amazon (affiliate) links related to this video…

Dymo label maker: https://amzn.to/3TKYm82

Label refills: https://amzn.to/3Sbedf1

Label maker storage cases: https://amzn.to/41Oapn4

White paint pen to label black cake containers: https://amzn.to/3tM7BtX

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Tuesday Tips @ 10: Glitter Bottle Display/Storage

Happy Tuesday! Today I’m going to share a cool tip that I learned from my friend Anita Beal! This cool trick makes it so much easier to see what glitter colors are in the poof bottles!

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Tuesday Tips @10: How to Magnetize your Kit!

Happy Tuesday! Yes, I may be down in St.Louis teaching at MAX today, but I have not forgotten about my Tuesday Tips fans! I have a great tip for those of you who are like me, obsessed with making and re-making your kits! I like to line all of my kits with steel, so everything can move around easily and stay in place with super strong neodymium magnets. I will share with you the tools I use to magnetize my kits, and where I find the cheapest sheets of super thin steel!

Here are some Amazon links to the things I use:

E6000 glue (big tube): https://amzn.to/3UxsBh8

E6000 glue (with precision tips): https://amzn.to/3KBNK4Z

Neodymium magnets I put on my paint cakes: https://amzn.to/3UzmhFO

Smaller Neodymium magnets I also use: https://amzn.to/417Qnmn

Tin snips: https://amzn.to/43pFIFb

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Tuesday Tips @ 10: Cleaning Practice Heads & Boards

Happy Tuesday! This week I’m talking about how I keep my Sparkling Faces practice boards and my Mehron practice head looking great for years! I hope you enjoy today’s video and if you use other types of heads or boards, please share with us in the comments how you keep YOURS looking good as new!

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Tuesday Tips @ 10: Reviving Old Brushes

Happy Tuesday everyone! It’s been a busy couple weeks here at Paintertainment, with Easter gigs, preparing to teach at the MAX convention, releasing our spring issue of Wet Paint Magazine, and adding new products to the shop! We have Elodie Ternois’ pretty pastel palettes and cakes just in time for Easter, Mehron Edge makeup in black and white, and our latest magazine issue!

Okay, back to today’s topic…it’s time for a Tuesday Tip at Ten! This week I dived into the archives to revive an old video on reviving old brushes! Check this out and give one of these methods a try if your brushes are getting old and crusty! You might be surprised how much life is left in them. And, well, if this doesn’t work for you, you can always hop on over to our shop and get yourself a new set! 🙂

Thanks so much for watching, and happy painting!

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Tuesday Tips @ 10: Brush Care!

Happy Tuesday! This week I’ll share with you my brush care best practices…this is how I have kept my brushes working their best for many years!