Replace Your Paint Tube Caps with Flush Valves

Replace Your Paint Tube Caps with Flush Valves
I've been using them for a few weeks now, and they seem to work really well. The benefit is that you no longer have to fiddle with paint tube caps. The little valve pinches together so tightly that it forms a sufficient seal, keeping your paint from drying out. Then, all you have to do is squeeze out paint when you want. I will probably continue using them, but here are a few minor inconveniences. You have to press very hard and twist to get the valve onto the end of your paint tube. And when you squeeze paint out of the tube, you have to squeeze a little firmer. But those are minor issues. (Just in case you don't care for the flesh valves after trying them, don't throw your paint tube caps away)
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To attach a valve to your paint tube:
To attach the valve, don’t try to press the valve straight onto the tube. Instead, you have to stretch the valve opening at an angle against the rim of the tube, then twist firmly to get it on.

The invention of collapsible metal paint tubes in the mid-1800s transformed painting. Before tubes, artists mixed and stored paints in cumbersome containers, making outdoor work difficult. During the Impressionist era, painters such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir could carry ready-made oil paints into the countryside, allowing them to paint quickly on location and capture fleeting effects of light and atmosphere.

Art History—Invention of Paint Tubes
The invention of collapsible metal paint tubes in the mid-1800s transformed painting. Before tubes, artists mixed and stored paints in cumbersome containers, making outdoor work difficult. During the Impressionist era, painters like Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir could carry ready-made oil paints into the countryside, allowing them to paint quickly on location and capture fleeting effects of light and atmosphere.

Famous Artist Quote
“Without colors in tubes, there would have been no Cézanne, no Monet, no Sisley or Pissarro, nothing of what the journalists were later to call Impressionism.” —Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I look forward to seeing you in the studio soon!