 Flashman14  | 12 Feb 2018 3:55 a.m. PST |
I drink coffee only because I paint in the mornings. I drink coffee no matter what I'm doing in the morning. |
| PzGeneral | 12 Feb 2018 4:06 a.m. PST |
Never thought of most of these as 'mind altering'…. |
| ZULUPAUL | 12 Feb 2018 4:15 a.m. PST |
Agree with PzGeneral, I drink coffee or diet Coke but don't consider them "mind altering". |
| Dagwood | 12 Feb 2018 4:48 a.m. PST |
I would drink, probably tea or coffee, but my painting table is so cluttered that there's no room to put a cup down …. |
| Skeets | 12 Feb 2018 5:04 a.m. PST |
Usually water and occasionally soda. |
 etotheipi  | 12 Feb 2018 6:18 a.m. PST |
This needs to be a "pick five". I drink coffee, tea, and water all the time, so during painting, yes. I also often paint when I would normally have a beer of glass of wine (hanging out with SWMBO, "watching" sports, etc.), so I don't drink alcohol for painting, but I also don't stop drinking I would otherwise be doing. |
 x42brown | 12 Feb 2018 6:32 a.m. PST |
I often drink tea while painting as much to ease the pain in my hands from the heat of the cup as any effect from the tea itself. x42 |
| Asterix | 12 Feb 2018 7:17 a.m. PST |
Depends on the time of day. |
| farnox | 12 Feb 2018 7:42 a.m. PST |
Caffeine makes my hands shake so I stay away from coffee tea etc. I'm not much of a drinker so I never really tried painting after a few. |
 miniMo | 12 Feb 2018 7:43 a.m. PST |
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| Cyrus the Great | 12 Feb 2018 8:00 a.m. PST |
Another for water and rarely soda. |
| dapeters | 12 Feb 2018 9:35 a.m. PST |
I find that if I have a beer the first couple sips are fine, but then I get into painting and forget I have and then it's flat and warm. Same sort of thing with coffee. |
 John the Greater | 12 Feb 2018 11:30 a.m. PST |
I don't mix drinking with painting. Which helps explain why it takes so long for me to get around to paining anything. |
| Dave Crowell | 12 Feb 2018 12:32 p.m. PST |
I have a strict studio rule of no beverages anywhere near the painting area. I have gulped paint water and swished my brush in my drink one too many times… And it doesn't matter how distinctly different the containers are, it will happen. |
zoneofcontrol  | 12 Feb 2018 12:40 p.m. PST |
Not being the most skilled painter, my drinking usually begins AFTER painting when I see what I did to my poor minis. |
| Frederick | 12 Feb 2018 2:37 p.m. PST |
I sometimes have a spot of tea or a Coke when painting Not often, but sometimes |
 Ironwolf | 12 Feb 2018 8:19 p.m. PST |
I don't like painting so I drink a soda while packing up my figs to ship off to a painter. lol |
 Doctor X | 12 Feb 2018 10:34 p.m. PST |
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| robert piepenbrink | 14 Feb 2018 5:03 p.m. PST |
Old habits. I used to use a Diet Coke can for my wash water. (Spills out much more slowly if you knock it over, and I was in barracks: no ready access to small cans.) Having a drinking can and a washing can on the table was just asking for trouble. |
 COL Scott ret | 17 Feb 2018 8:18 p.m. PST |
Water mostly but have done coffee or occasionally tea |
