Assistance in Removing Paint From Clothing
Being around paint, day and night, we, artists, have tried many techniques to remove, dried, acrylic paint! While it's usually never easy, it's not always impossible to do! The best tactic we've discovered for getting it out most of the time, involves rubbing alcohol. Easily purchased at most stores (and an inexpensive item, at that), it makes a great solution!
Claudine Hellmuth, artist and owner of the 'Claudine Hellmuth Studio Line' (art supplies), has provided a step by step tutorial (photos, included) for us! We tried the method on some of our (many!) paint-stained clothing and it actually worked on them! While it's not foolproof, it does provide a piece of mind when stressing over your best denim or favorite top, facing the prospect of being thrown out! There IS a possibility they can be saved, and every effort should be made to do so!
The technique is pretty easy, just slightly time-consuming, depending on the material, the paint color, and the amount of paint on the garment. Your clothing already has paint on it... so what's the worst that can happen, in giving this method a try?!!
In trying out this technique, we used a few pieces of our clothing that had been stained for a while:
-a pair of jeans
-a 100% cotton shirt
-a cotton-blend sock (hey... we're artists, here... things happen...) :)
The rubbing alcohol, soaked the spots, was rubbed with a wooden popsicle stick to get into the fibers, then washed... and they all became clean!! (*You can always use your fingernail, but we used the wooden stick)
The denim, being the toughest and most durable of the three, only took one shot at cleaning. We rubbed, scrubbed, and washed and after one round, the paint was out!
The cotton shirt and sock, both took 3 attempts (it was dark blue paint on a white sock...). But with some patience and a little elbow grease, both cotton items were cleaned, as well! Certain clothing will be harder to clean, of course. Anything textured, (like lace, etc...) or delicate (like silk, etc...) can't be scrubbed as hard as a more durable item like denim can be. So if you get black paint on your white, lace top, the odds are against you.
It's no fun to ruin a beloved piece of clothing, but let's look at the glass as half-full:
1-You probably had a lot of fun painting, so hopefully it was worth it!
2-Now, you have a special set of painting clothes to wear every time you come to the studio!
***Read more about Claudine's paint removal technique, here:
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