Supplies

Container for water

 Like many of the art supplies, these can run as simple and cheap as you want.  Recommendation: select something to exclusively be your water for paint and don’t use it to drink out of.  Also, some scribes choose to have more than one water container.  One to rinse the dirty brush, one to run the brush through clean water before mixing with another color.  This helps to decrease any unwanted crossing of color.  Also, some scribes have found using a separate container for gold or silver to help prevent unwanted metal flex from getting into their other paint.  Here are some containers that scribes have used for their water.

• Plastic yogurt cups.  Cheap and disposable.  Also, the lid doubles as a paint palette.  Also, plastic Dixie cups, or empty plastic frozen juice containers.
• Empty baby food jars.  Easy to obtain, the lids close tightly and the glass looks a bit more period than plastic containers. 
• Small lab bottles
• Old ceramic coffee mug.  White coffee mugs can help you gauge how dirty your water is. 
• Children’s liquid Tylenol bottles with eye droppers (this is for transporting water to events and mixing with paint).
• Hand-made ceramic cups/bowls.  More expensive than other options, but looks more period.