"Drinks for painting" Topic

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What is your favourite drink when painting figures?

Whisky.

Shot glass never gets mistaken for mug of brush water.
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I suppose absinthe is traditional for painting, but I'm usually drinking black tea, like Twining's Darjeeling (with lemon) or English Breakfast (with cream).

A long time ago,* I found a little weed good for creativity. More than a little was good for sleeping, and thus not so good for creativity.

*I checked -- any potentially applicable statutes of limitation have long ago expired.

As noted on the Madura post, I'm a Twinings Earl Grey tea buy myself – but when I paint mostly just sip on water

Murchies (local Vancouver tea sellers) #22 Blend of black tea (Ceylon, Keemun), green tea (Gunpowder, Jasmine) and bergamot oil.

Almost always one of these three:
Seltzer water with a twist of lime or lemon
A beer
A glass of wine

I don't drink alcohol while painting. Ice water. I like Ice.

Now if your question was drinking alcohol while playing a game then it would be beer, wine and occasionally mixed drinks.

Actually I cannot remember NOT having a drink while playing a game unless I was playing a game at a convention.

Beer in a long neck bottle?

If I drink something when painting it's almost invariably tea. Which sort depends on what I feel like – most commonly some sort of flavoured black tea.

I often have a coffee while painting, though I have let it go cold more than once when I got too involved in my painting!

Painting doesn't influence what I drink. I drink whatever I feel like drinking at the time I paint.

Ice tea (Luzianne) during the day. Bourbon on ice in the evening.

Tea – Assam.

Assam? You'd like the Madura then (the black tea not the dictator).

Tea (Scottish blend)

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Assam? You'd like the Madura then (the black tea not the dictator).

Oh, I dabbled with darjeeling and experimented with Earl Grey, but Assam has all the notes. But I'm open to new things, and I'd certainly let you pour me a cup of Madura should the opportunity arise.

Iced coffee for me. True blue New Englander.

Iced tea. Type depends so on what I'm hankering. I don't drink alcohol ever because I know I cannot control myself.

I'm a troglodyte, black coffee. My painting is already slow, alcohol would not help.

I always enjoy a good absinthe (from France, Switzerland, or some of the regional American distillations -- no place else makes it well). But I'll sip on a rum, or Scotch, or even a beer if the mood suits. Painting drinks tend to linger a long time, I only take up the glass between brush cleanings.

Black tea in the afternoon (almost invariably an English one), scotch or bourbon at night. Occasionally I'll have brandy, cognac or armagnac instead of whiskey, but that's rare.

Water or a nice beer

Coffee hot & black. Drink tea once or twice a year. No alcohol in this house too much alcoholism in my family history.

Water or a nice beer related to the season – an IPA or Belgian White in Summer, darker beers into fall and winter from amber ales to porters to stouts, and back again. And a few must have beers when playing Dark Ages or Dark Ages fantasy (Lord of the Rings) like a nice Dragon's Milk Stout.

Bottled water. It's harder to dip a paintbrush in a bottle than in a teacup.

Beer, wine, sometimes a seltzer.

Usually tea in winter and Diet Coke or Sugar Free Root Beer in summer. But as noted, the important thing is that it be drunk from a container of a very different shape kept some distance from the paint water. In the Piepenbunker, paint water is in a very spillproof containter directly to my front and behind the castings. Anything I drink while painting is either in a mug (tea) or a tall glass with ice to my right. Decades of habit are a big help.

I don't always drink beer when I'm painting, but when I do, I prefer…

As there is no room on my painting table, nothing.