How to Clean an Airbrush

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Part of the video series: Airbrush Techniques

Summary: Cleaning an airbrush gun involves filling it with a store-bought cleaning solution, spraying out all of the excess and then taking it apart to soak in soapy water. Thoroughly clean an airbrush gun for the next project, using pipe cleaners to get in the nooks and crannies, with instructions from a professional artist in this free video on airbrushing.

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By Lars Erik Robinson
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Lars Eric Robinson graduated from Ringling School Of Art & Design where he received his BFA in Illustration in 1994. Robinson has been a National Caricaturist Network (NCN) Member...read more

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"Well hello, welcome, my name is Lars-Erik Robinson. I'm an illustrator with LarsEr Arts and today I thought I would talk about how we actually clean an airbrush gun when you are done with the piece. I just did this T-shirt awesome because airbrushing is awesome. What we do is the first thing you do is you take either a cleaner which is an airbrush cleaner that they sell and also if you are dealing with a car cleaner what you do when working with it you have to take mineral spirits like a paint thinner and today I worked with a water based stuff so we are going to use the cleaner that comes with the paints but put it in this tube and you take your airbrush needle that you have and you unscrew it and you pull back on it. You have to take it out also and wipe it off on a cloth so you can get all of that off of there. Once it is all clean and you look at it and make sure the tip is still looking good you go back in and put it back in there and brush it on again and finish emptying out everything out of your tube. I don't want to drop that. When you are done with that you take everything apart and you put it in another jar with cleaning liquid, with say maybe this liquid or maybe hot soapy water if you are doing a water soluble. So you take everything apart and pull this out, unscrew this and take your tip out by unscrewing everything and yet you'll be able to find all that on your instruction manual when you buy your airbrush gun. They also have pipe cleaners that you can use to be able to clean out your airbrush gun so when you are done you can put your pipe cleaner in there and rub it out where all the paint is stuck in here. So that gives you more of an idea of how to clean out your airbrush gun and if you have any other questions just always refer to your manual on it but I always encourage everybody to have a good time and don't worry about the cleaning process because look at what results you can get out of airbrushing. Hope you enjoyed it. My name is Lars Robinson with LarsEr Arts."