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Acrylic Painting Tips - - Cleaning a Palette

A helpful acrylic painting tip from a fellow artist.

By Marion Boddy-Evans, About.com

To get dried acrylic paint off a palette, soak it in fabric softener and it will come out like magic. It also works to clean stiffen paint brushes like new.
Tip from: Gerald Dextraze.

If you're using a hard plastic, tile, or glass palette try spraying it with glass cleaner; in five minutes any dried paint should wipe off easily.
Tip from: Aaron Boyd

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