Do you hold your paint container while painting?

[OctoberMoon]

Another question; do you hold the paint you are working with so you don't have to keep reaching down?
I've also found that misting/re-wetting my paints in the pallette tends to send a fine spatter of color into other paints, especially frustrating with the black and white.....
Anne

[Kristal]

Nope. It makes sense to, but I hold my brush in one hand and their face with my other - and I'm out of hands! I don't find it makes a ton of difference - I just have to make sure the paints are all to my right, instead of having to reach around to my left

As for the spatter - a bit, yeah, but nothing unmanageable - maybe hold your mister closer/farther away?

[MandiIlene]

I don't mist my paints I dip my sponge corner in the water and the brushes.
I have to have my paints on the right, but I usually put plenty on my brush as to not have to re-dip very often, but Wolfe paints are really nice, the only ones I have found that I don't have to reload that often.

~*~Mandi~*~

[Alison]

Hi October ~
So that's why I never held my paints!
Yes - I planned on holding my paints in the left hand and painting with the right.  Some day.
But it never happened.  Because I sure hold that head while I'm painting it.

[Sherry]

I don't normally hold my paints, because I use the Snazaroo palette.  I do have individual pots of my black and white, so I have picked them up and held while painting a few times, but it's not my normal MO.

I have colors spatter some from spritzing my paints.  The only time I really thought it was a problem was with my Diamond FX black... it seems more of a problem than the other colors.

[Shannon Fennell]

I add a few drops of water from a 4 oz. squeeze bottle to all my cakes when I set up and add more as needed.  Most are in Snaz Jumbo palettes, but I have about six that are solo.  They all sit on the table... I may pick-up the rainbow cake to load, but put the cake back down before I paint.

[GaFacepainter]

I fall in with Mandi, I dip the brush in the water. I like how much control over the water I get that way. I have sprayed and ended up getting too much water and making a lake. Once loaded it lasts for a good while.